Daily Post Nigeria Published States, provinces or regions as the case may be, are essential components of federations and must meet certain conditions to make sense. To begin with, Federalism is a mode of political organization that unites separate states or other polities within an overarching political system in a way that allows each to maintain a measure of control over its territory, making it a federating unit. Nigeria is one of the 25 federations in the world but with the queerest composition. According to UNDP and OECD standards, population, land mass, economic viability and human capacity are the four universal elements that guarantee a nation’s quest at providing good livelihood to her citizens . These factors ought to be the beacons guiding State creation in Nigeria but it is hardly the case.