Nigeria, April 23 -- Geographically, every country is NEWS. That is, if you use compass as a tool of navigation, each country can be divided into North, East, West. and South. Before 1963 when Mid-West was created, Nigeria, when it was being administered as regions was a tripod of North, East and West. Northern region comprised of the entire present 19 states up of Niger River. It starts from the present Kwara, Kogi, Benue up to Borno, Taraba, Sokoto and Kebbi. Eastern Nigeria covered the current Igbo speaking states down to Ijaw, Efik, and Ibibio areas of the present day Akwa Ibom and Cross River States. Western Region covered all the Yoruba speaking, Edo and Itsekiri areas.

As the military decided to create states out of the regions, r...