{"id":185415,"date":"2024-11-27T11:53:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T09:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lack-of-unity-nigerias-greatest-problem-jonathan\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T09:53:44","slug":"nigeria-lack-of-unity-nigerias-greatest-problem-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lack-of-unity-nigerias-greatest-problem-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Lack of Unity Nigeria&#8217;s Greatest Problem &#8211; Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said the greatest problem confronting Nigeria from a political perspective is its lack of unity, adding that genuine development will remain elusive until this issue is resolved.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Jonathan, speaking yesterday in Effurun, Delta State, as chairman of the Wellmann Group Colloquium, said Nigerians should have recognised the benefits of unity after over 100 years of amalgamation, given the country&#8217;s geography and ecological diversity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">&#8220;There must be a reason why&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411270152.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said the greatest problem confronting Nigeria from a political perspective is its lack of unity, adding that genuine development will remain elusive until this issue is resolved. Jonathan, speaking yesterday in Effurun, Delta State, as chairman of the Wellmann Group Colloquium, said Nigerians should have recognised the benefits of unity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":185416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8537,8304,7112,257,4687,393,5761,9981,254,4019],"class_list":["post-185415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-greatest","tag-jonathan","tag-lack","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-problem","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unity"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}