Because of work, studies and my vocation as a journalist, I have visited about six states out of the 19 states in the North of Nigeria
- Kano, Kaduna, Gombe, Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe. In all my travels, I have never seen such beauty and such vastness of a land so endowed with human and…
I discovered that the traditional and cultural template subsists mostly in Northern Nigeria, and promotes a lie that leaving these lads out there in the sun, cold, the winds and rain and with the mosquitoes and flies of that sometimes intemperate region toughens them up, and prepares them for leadership. That lie was what I was to find to be the recurring decimal in Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, Kano, Kaduna and Gombe, and indeed in the other Northern states.
The figures indicate that in spite of having a very large and very young population, a very fertile land, and some of the most industrious of Nigerians, some of the North of Nigeria has one of the lowest human capital development indexes in Africa. This young population is largely untapped, unharnessed, underdeveloped and undeveloped, and this robs Nigeria of critical human raw materials for national development.
I reiterate that if the North would review the Almajiri caste system, they would capture and rule Nigeria for two thousand years. The North is also a metaphor for Nigeria in that if the Nigerian government or the state governors would invest in our people, instead of their own children only, Nigeria would rule the world in the arts, science and technology in a thousand years.Before flagging, please keep in mind that Disqus does not moderate communities.
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