The Arewa Economic Renewal Forum (AERF) has explained how the Northern region is at the receiving end of the challenges facing Nigeria. The chairman of the forum, Ibrahim Shehu Dandakata, stated this at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, lamenting that Northern Nigeria suffers from everything wrong with the country, from poverty to insecurity, unemployment, and the burden of many out-of-school children. The forum thus challenged the political class to present a clear roadmap for the emancipation of northern Nigeria before running for office, according to PRNigeria.
January 24, 2023The chairman of the forum, Ibrahim Shehu Dandakata, stated this at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, lamenting that Northern Nigeria suffers from everything wrong with the country, from poverty to insecurity, unemployment, and the burden of many out-of-school children.
The forum thus challenged the political class to present a clear roadmap for the emancipation of northern Nigeria before running for office, according to PRNigeria. He said,"The resultant consequence for our region is poverty, substandard education, lack of access to credit financing and other negative underdevelopment indicators.
"Similarly, out of the over three million hectares of potential dry season agriculture river basins, less than one million hectares is inefficiently utilized yet Nigeria has about ten river basin development authorities in existence for over 45 years.” "The gross distribution of development and investment finance by government institutions and other financial institutions have always been skewed in favor of other regions, enterprises and institutions in Nigeria.”"The Bank of Industry 2019 annual report shows a disproportionate and unfair distribution of financing/loans to enterprises across the various geographical zones in Nigeria with the south's 191.7bn surpassing that of the entire North's share of 41.
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