By Buhari Olanrewaju Ahmed
The rate of poverty in the Northern region of Nigeria is
quite unfortunate despite the abundant resources and human power in the
region.
The political and leadership failure represent the fundamental menace that continue to trouble Northerners whose only joy is that one of their own is in charge.
The
instability of the Nigerian government has seriously damaged the educational
system in the country. The numbers of students who have dropped out of school
is alarming in the region, and this has paved way for the recruitment of
insurgency because majority are unemployed.
The children of the ‘common people’ they refused to educate are now asking for a pound of flesh in return. Although some of these self-acclaimed elder statesmen in the North have always known that the calamities will consume them one day, they refused to turn a new leaf.
