ABSTRACT

Abstract

North and South are two regions that dominate Nigeria’s political landscape and equally divided between Muslims and Christians respectively. The country is the populous nation in Africa and the seventh in the world ranking; with nearly twenty percent of the world black population. Since political independence, Nigeria had undergone several military interruptions until 1999 when it fully or semi-complete restored the democratic system of government. Again, the North and South regions together with Islam and Christianity, the two dominant faiths of the country, seem to perpetually implant catastrophic and bitter incidents for several decades back. Nigeria emerges as the largest oil-exporting country in the region consuming by the world's largest economy. Over the past two decades since returning to civilian rule, the democratic transition seems ineffective due to the number of reasons including the religious and regional identities. This paper examines the roles plays by religious dogmatism in Nigerian politics. It, however, aims at discovering the inevitability of cultural adherences despite the great danger surrounds should slide misinformation occur amidst process as the country is a multi-cultural environment, and independent entities with no concrete historical contacts until the amalgamation that take place somewhere in the 1914 (some 46 years only till independence).