Nigeria: Healing a divided society

In more ways than one, the post-military Nigeria of today is a fractured national society. From all accounts, never in the history of the country since the end of the fratricidal civil war of 1967 - 1970 has it been terribly divided in peacetime across the cleavages and fault lines of ethnicity, religion, state, region, politics and class as in this uncertain era. Inevitably, these divisions have generated distrust, suspicion, bitterness, antagonism, tension and identity-driven conflicts among the various social groups in the country.