If Nigeria is to really realise your true potential as the world’s largest black nation and maybe the next big super power, she needs to join this list

Ayo Akinfe 

[1] Russia — 17,098,250 km²
[2] Canada — 9,879,750 km²
[3] China — 9,600,013 km²
[4] United States — 9,525,067 - 9,831,510 km²
[5] Brazil — 8,515,770 km²
[6] Australia — 7,741,220 km²
[7] India — 3,287,260 km²
[8] Argentina — 2,780,400 km²
[9] Kazakhstan — 2,724,902 km²
[10] Algeria — 2,381,741 km²

By 2050, it is estimated that Nigeria will be the third most populous nation on earth behind India and China. To sustain that kind of population you need a large landmass.

Nigeria is currently just 923,768 km², which is wholly inadequate. In contrast, if you merged these four nations together, you would have an immediate super power:

Nigeria - 923,768 km²
Niger Republic - 1.267m km²
Benin Republic - 114,763 km²
Cameroon - 475,442 km²
Total: 2,780,973

Now, in 2022 you cannot go about matching your troops across borders as if we are in the days of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Wellington or Frederick Lugard. What we can, however, is open amalgamation talks with our neighbours.

I just fail to see how we will become an industrial power with such a small landmass. With a 2.78m sq km Federal Republic of Songhai, however, the dynamics change drastically.