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    Restructuring the Nigerian Federation: Challenges and Prospects.
    (The Abuja Management Review (AMR), 2025-10) ALIYU Lukman Olalekan1 LAWAL Yusuf Brisan2 & ARABA Akeem Ayanda (PhD)3
    The manifest of diversity and the need to have a strong economic system that would foster desirable development necessitated the adoption of federal institutional framework in Nigeria. This structural technique of governance has been a subject of questioning in respect of its workability and self-sustenance. The call for restructuring the Nigerian Federation has gained significant momentum in recent years. This study desired to examine the distinct bases for continuous clamouring for restructuring of the Nigerian Federation and touch-light the prospects of Nigerian state as a federal political system. Guided with the principle of qualitative research, this study found that there is lack of common understanding and belief in ‘federal framework’ among various ethnic groups that made up the country. This missing orientation driven by: unequal power-sharing formula that failed to deliver adequate result, feelings of marginalization by some regions, failure to manage revenue allocation processes for the betterment of the country, significant multi-ethnic population which makes it vulnerable to secession threats, unclearly defined the roles and responsibilities of the state government which generates unhealthy competition and conflict. This study discovered that there is a prospect in Nigerian federal system. That is the system is capable of being rejuvenated through effective decentralization. This study recommends that, Political leadership should summon courage and make needful scarify (reconfigure the system and decentralize power) while caution must be exercised in the course of restructuring, because an extremely weak central with super constituent units is vulnerable to instability.