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The Demarcation of the International Boundaries of Nigeria

In Nigeria, regionalism is often seen as something working against national integration, and the word ‘regionalism’ has tended to be used in a negative term to denote divisive tendancies. And this is very different from the situation in Japan where political and economic centralisation is so strong that the study of ‘regionalism’ have received considerable attention in recent years.The origin of regionalism in Nigeria dated back to the history of the establishment of the country as a political unit. In this paper, the author traced the history of the demarcation of Nigeria's international boun…