The Biggest Tribe in Nigeria is called Poverty.

Nigeria my country has over 250 ethnic civilizations, two major religions that have more similarities than differences yet those who sow discord, kill and mien and don’t care about religion but power – of people’s mind and wealth continually propagate the differences and keep us  always at each other‘s jaws.

Yet of all these, largest of them all is called poverty, 71 percent of Nigerians are from this group, faithfully practicing this religion on a daily basis.
Just recently, the Statistician General of the Federation reviled this staggering numbers.  He wondered why despite birth control measures such as “growing the economy” the population of this tribe keeps blustering. In his word "It remains a paradox ’’
He went further to say the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics estimates that the trend may  increase further this year if  more compactable family “poverty” planning  method are not taken into account to keep this tribe’s population in check,While many see Nigerian’s poverty as a problem, I see this as the as a huge strength.
Nigeria is a country heavily divided along ethnic and religious lines. Almost everything is interpreted and done along these lines, from holding political office to everything else. We are currently caught between a ‘supposedly’ religious war where bombs go off every day. Thousands of people have lost their lives, many injured and livelihoods destroyed. Yet for me, our strength lies in our common tribe, our common religion and the ‘I can do’ spirit of the average Nigerian in face of the impossible it is.”
The typical Nigerian is a hustler, a solution carrier, super adaptable and forceful always finding a way out of problems.
This is how it goes:

• No water, dig a borehole.
• Poor Education, get a private school or make enough money to check out to a foreign country
• No light. Lite your  Lantern or Inverter or Get a generator and proudly show off saying or open your louver for fresh air “I better pass my neighbor” and life goes on.
• No healthcare centers, get a family doctor that will charge you or go to the nearest drugstore

But if we must change our lot and better our clime, our common humanity, poverty should spur not to depend on the government. It is this common tribe of ours that led the #OccupyNigeria protest in January was 2012. I was quick to point out why I occupied Nigeria.
This one affected all, it knew no religious background, it crushed every ethnic barrier to powder, young and old, we were all affected and we all responded with one voice. To the best of my knowledge, Nigerians have not started digging personal oil wells and refining fuel for private or personal use.
Many people have wondered why our very intellectual discourses on social media have not graduated to real life action as witnessed in the Arab Spring where social media aided mobilization, made the protest go viral and brought the protest under international gaze. This is the issue; our mobilization has largely remained along our actual or perceived differences.
Since religion has failed to be our relying point and ethnicity also failed to unite us, our common ground therefore is our poverty, our biggest tribe. This is what unites us and must form the ground for us to act and transform our clime for 71