Nigeria may rightly be said to have perpetually lived with great degrees of public unrest with all its repercussions since its creation as a country. The search for the ingredients of such unrests that tear the country apart necessitated the present study that examines the roots of public unrest in Nigeria. The study observed that the British amalgamation of the various ethnic groups in Nigeria became forced marriage of unwilling bedmates; such that right from the onset both the colonialists and the prominent indigenous leaders of the people were skeptical of the possible survival of the country as a nation. At the end, the study calls for the good people to always persevere in goodness and not lose their cool even in the face of unbearable odds. Yet, that would not make them to stop fighting for justice and truth.