Nigeria: A business enterprise, not yet a nation?

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Let's walk memory lane. Some wordings or sentence maybe copied. But walk with me.

Before Nigeria, the land was occupied by many tribes or kingdoms of independency. They didn't see the need of getting together to form a country or nation. Sokoto caliphate, oyo empire, Benin kingdom. Etc. Then the Europeans got involved in what is Nigeria today. Their interest was more of trade. Examples are Palm oil, palm kernels etc. With all this a company was created. The Royal Niger Company. The company was created to manage the trade resources for the British. Something happened, Frederick Lugard a Britain joined the north and the south together.

Note, I had to cut some part not to make this long.

At the end of the joining. War broke out because some set of people don't like the idea of Nigeria. And some still today don't like the idea. But before the joining Nigeria was still operating as a business.  The joining was just to combine smaller businesses together into one. So they can still loot and plunder the land.

If we go further to check the meaning of nation which I will do:

A nation is a group of people who see themselves as belonging together because they share a common identity. That identity may come from history, culture, language, traditions, values, or a shared sense of destiny.

From that definition, can you still call Nigeria a nation?

With the history I shared and point I gave, can you still consider Nigeria a nation but a business enterprise to favour the few powerful elite who are not by the way Nigerians themselves?