IS REVOLUTION A GUARANTEE FOR NIGERIA'S DEVELOPMENT? Nigeria shuffles between two faces; On the radiant but anxious face, you can read quite clearly that the various peoples of Nigeria can and do want to stay together in unity, peace and progress if they are allowed to take decisions about their future calmly; the other face is squirming frantically, and the bloodshot eyes which stare so fearfully from that face seem to say that those eyes would rather bleak and scatter the peoples of Nigeria than allow them to decide their own future.” -Bola Ige, SAN For the sake of clarity, development has been defined by Professor Dudley Seers as the elimination of poverty, unemployment and inequality. Nigeria is presently ranked as the 13th most fragile state in the world by the U.S. Think Thank Fund for Peace. She grapples with an unemployment rate of 33.10 % and inhabits 90.8 million poor citizens (about half of the populace, earning her a golden award as the world’s poverty capital.) On