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No and here's your smoke too sure brought to you

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by ethnic conflict It goes a bit deeper than arguing

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over which country's cuisine makes for the best takeout nigeria's

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multi state federal structure was primarily designed to what here

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the pendulum Yeah well nigeria ended nearly thirty three years

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of military rule in nineteen ninety nine but the two

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thousand eleven elections were the first to be declared free

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and fair Sometimes democracy gets off to a bumpy start

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much like when we try to get off the couch

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and back to the gym Although our bumps tend to

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come in the form of netflix and papa john's all

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right is the answer egg in order to clarify educational

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and employment policies Actually educational employment policies are carried out

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by the federal state they're having a multi state approach

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doesn't accomplish much in the way of clarification Anything that

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probably makes things complicated asked average would mean knows what

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we're talking about Let's get rid of a maybe it's

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being in order to reduce dependence on oil revenues that

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one came out of left field way have to ask

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yourself how would a multi state federal structure reduced dependence

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On oil revenues Well two things your values related as

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kristen and patrick stewart the country still needs oil revenue

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Weather is made up of many states or just want

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music This logic we can also eliminate is an answer

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Solidifying the country's borders isn't something we'd immediately consider when

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talking about internal topic like federal structure Feeling two answers

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with one multi state structure over sounds good to us

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let's see centralized authority in a single political party Well

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the nigerian multi state system is actually an attempt to

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make sure that no single ethnic group dominates the country's

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political life Bad things tend to happen when one ethnic

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group rises to the top and takes power See uh

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history of nearly every major civilization ever But it's led

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to a vast number of political parties representing every possible

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view The rather been one political party There are nearly

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one hundred We just made it very tough for the

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ice cream for everyone party theorized in the top despite

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their catchy a scoop in every cone slogan it's not

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see which means the correct answer is diffused ethnic conflict

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A moment ago we said the political structure was created

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To make sure that no one at the group could

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dominate the country's politics and the same goes from the

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federal structure of the country a multi state federal structure

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was created in nigeria to integrate ethnically diverse population and

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to promote multiculturalism The thinking is that everyone gets along

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much better when no one's top dog and where all

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dogs are created equal Well history is pretty much the

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story of one abusive power after another So it makes

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sense that diffusing the power between different states would help

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An ethnically diverse country thrives And of course the best

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way for a country to thrive Ice cream for everyone 00:02:41.918 --> [endTime] saving sprinkles

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