Abstract:
Abstract
The territory called Nigeria today is beset with intense and complex rivalries between her
regions, religions and ethnic compositions; a complexity that has triggered several crises
and violent eruptions in the country with grave consequences on the nation‟s economy.
This paper examined these various crises and violent eruptions about the
economic state of the country. These tasks were accomplished using secondary data
from national and international journals, textbooks and the Internet search
engine. The study is strictly evaluative research analyzed from the
relative/vengeance theory platform. The study found that the various crises and violent eruptions
in the country grow out of past history of hatred and conflict with ever-increasing thought
and plans for vengeance by divergent ethnic and religious groups as the penance or
rationale behind crises and violent eruptions in the country. The study, therefore,
recommends patience among her citizens, holding people and organizations responsible
for misconduct within the ambit of the law, and peaceful and continuous dialogues/debates
among others as viable pathways to curtail this phenomenon.
