Nigeria has reached a dead end, according to the US Official

According to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Harvard Kennedy School in the United States, Nigeria is at a point of no return and has all the characteristics of a failed state.

Nigeria is currently in its final phase, from which it will eventually collapse, according to the organization that made the disclosure in a research finding it released through its senior fellow and former US ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, and Mr. Robert Rotberg, who is the founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Programme on Intrastate Conflict and president emeritus of the World Peace Foundation.

The organization claimed that their stance was supported by “a body of political theory developed at the turn of this century and elaborated upon, case by case, ever since,” rather than on sentiment or the whim of using derogatory language to describe the circumstance.

According to its report, Nigeria has transitioned from a “weak state” to “a fully failed state,” exhibiting all the characteristics of a failed state, including widespread violence, a simmering insurgency, and the inability of the government to protect its citizens.

Its failure is significant because a more powerful Nigeria is necessary for maintaining the stability and economic growth of Africa as well as for halting the global spread of unrest and militancy.

Typically, after South Africa, it is said that its economy is the largest or second largest in all of Africa. Nigeria, who dominated West Africa for a long time, contributed favorably to the advancement of African peace and stability.
It can no longer support that vocation due to governmental failure, and a substitute is not in the offing. Due to its security issues and the resurgence of jihadism, West Africa is already becoming more unstable, making it harder to contain the Sahelian conflicts.

And the security of Europe and the United States ultimately suffers as a result of Nigeria’s shortcomings.

Indeed, throughout the past 10 years, thoughtful Nigerians have discussed, frequently vehemently, whether their state has failed. Their general consensus is that it has, according to a piece posted on Thursday by foreignpolicy(dot)com.

According to the paper, there are four different types of nations: successful, failed, and collapsed.

“Previously published research suggests that among the 193 members of the United Nations, 60 or 70 are strong—the countries that rate best in the Freedom House rankings, the U.S. State Department’s human rights assessments, the Transparency International anticorruption perception indexes, and so on.

“South Sudan, Yemen, and Somalia should all be regarded as disintegrated states.

The U.N. has 80 or 90 weak members. The provision of many but not all of the basic public goods—security and safety being the most crucial of these—represents weakness. Governments cannot provide their constituents with good governance (the fundamental services that citizens expect) if citizens are not safe from harm within national borders.

Perhaps a dozen or more states have failed, including Myanmar, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Each lacks safety, is unstable, has lax legal systems, is corrupt, restricts political expression and involvement, discriminates against different racial and ethnic groups inside its borders, and sparingly disburses funds for healthcare and education. Failed states are violent more often than not.

There is violent internal conflict in every failed state, whether it be a civil war or an insurgency. Nigeria currently faces six or more internal uprisings, and the nation’s failure to give its citizens peace and stability has made it weaker than it had previously been.Political theory holds that Nigeria is a failed state since the government is unable to stop the Boko Haram insurgency. But there are a lot more signs and symptoms. Citizens should at the very least expect their governments to protect them from outside threats and to keep them secure within their boundaries.

In return for allegiance and taxation, subjects made a deal with their sovereigns long ago in which they agreed to be protected from harm. When the social contract that ought to serve as the fundamental cornerstone of the state is violated, a state loses its coherence, its social fabric falls apart, and warring groups undermine it.

“It looks that Nigeria has now passed the point of no return. Today, only a few areas of Nigeria are truly safe “said the research.