CHIBOK GIRLS: WE’RE BEHIND ULTIMATUM TO JONATHAN – ANGO ABDULLAHI The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has fired back at the presidency, saying it was indeed behinnd the October ultimatum given to President Goodluck Jonathan to rescue the abducted Chibok schoolgirls or forget his 2015 ambition of returning as the president of Nigeria. THE NORTH AND HER LEADERS OF THOUGHT SHOULD ADDRESS THE ISSUE RAISED BY MY FRIEND AND RESPONSE BY MOSTLY HER YOUTH. HAPPY READING!! Muhammad Hussaini feeling angry Federal government college sokoto Options for this story 2014: THE NORTH MUST CHANGE OR PERISH! Nigeria is on a tripod of Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba; other minorities are conveniently absorbed in these groups to achieve certain purposes which are beyond the scope of this post. Let me start from the last in the list. Yoruba: I have lived in the South West, particularly Lagos, for 10 years. I knew their FOCUS to be LAGOS - everybody had a vision to come to Lagos and make it. They had EDUCATION as a vehicle to make it more abundantly. So the direction of the Yoruba is Lagos and education a veritable vehicle for achievement. That is why they dominate the professions, commerce and government today. Igbo: I lived in the South East, particularly Enugu, for 4 years. I had Asaba up to Niger Delta to the Atlantic as territory under my control in the course of my job. It was clear to me that the FOCUS there was ENTREPRENEURSHIP. They had MENTORING as a vehicle to make it more abundantly. So the direction of the Igbo is entrepreneurship and mentoring is a veritable vehicle for achievement. The Igbo also complimented this with education. That is why they dominate commerce and industry with government today. They are also in the professions in reasonable numbers. Hausa: I was born and bred in the North. I schooled up to the university level in the North. I also did my NYSC in the North. I should know the North. What is the FOCUS of the North and a veritable vehicle for mass achievement? BLUE BLOOD! From time, there was no greater measure of achievement than proximity to the local royalty. To wit, the North was and still is a class society. But how many Blue Bloods are there to achieve a critical mass of the mundane proximity to the local Royal and for whatever achievement? And so it was that the struggle of the commoners that have the critical mass was to warm up to the royalty and get some recognition in the form of traditional titles and access to some unfair advantages (Alfarma). That is the reason that in the North we call Traditional Rulers Mai Alfarma - owner and dispenser of privileges. So the direction of the North is ALFARMA and PROXIMITY to a Royalty as a veritable vehicle for achievement. That is reason Sardauna, of Sokoto Royalty which was the dominant Royalty in the North, became the political Head of the North. ALL members of his cabinet had traditional titles and the commoners among them had titles thrust upon them by virtue of their relationships with their local Monarchs. But what has Alfarma helped Northerners to dominate? NOTHING! Cry, The Beloved North! Can the status quo in the North, Alfarma, sustain the North as a mode of Social Engineering and a model for Economic Emancipation? Hell no!!! The Leadership in the North must wake up to the realities of Modern Nigeria. We can learn from our neighbours and embrace Mass Education, Commerce and Industry. Our desperate search for power, which we have used to characteristically dispense Alfarma to the total neglect of concrete achievements, is a huge distraction at this point in time as, I believe, the loss of power has opened our eyes to the injuries we have done to ourselves which we must work hard to correct - by copying the good methods of our neighbours to liberate ourselves from the shackles of poverty, ignorance and disease. And we must start NOW - 2014! 7 hours ago Share 17 Shares • Bruce Abulu, Lawal Garba and 25 others like this. • Imonikhe Ahimie NOW, my broda, is THE time! your call for emancipation is absolutely right, but it also applies to every other section of the republic. we, all of us, have a duty to do all that lies within our powers to change our country for the better one single nigerian child who is deprived of proper education diminishes me, as it diminishes all of us. god bless u, my dear broda, and god bless the federal republic of nigeria. 6 hours ago • 3 • Abdul-Kabir Yahaya Excellent analysis Stocky! 6 hours ago via mobile • 2 • Meena Dogonyaro My thoughts exactly! 6 hours ago via mobile • 1 • Sardaunan Bunza Aminu Well written I agree with most of what you said but my esteemed friend,mate and brother Muhammad Hussaini you have not done justice to us by not saying that we are the Driving force in Agriculture. The North can feed the entire southern part of Sahara with Grains & livestock. 6 hours ago via mobile • 1 • Imonikhe Ahimie we must all direct our justified anger to achieving positives. 6 hours ago • 1 • Abdul-Kabir Yahaya Sardaunan Bunza, we need to actualize that potential. This is what Stocky is saying. We have everything, but need to put our house in order. 6 hours ago via mobile • 1 • Muhammad Hussaini Sardaunan Bunza Aminu, one of the Blue Bloods ( BB)! Haha! Can you swear that the eggs you had for breakfast this morning did not come from the South West? I know for a fact that most of the eggs we eat in Sokoto come from the South West. Aminu, we have even neglected agriculture for which we have comparative advantage. We need leaders not politicians Mallam. 6 hours ago via mobile • 3 • Sardaunan Bunza Aminu Yes my friends its true we need leaders not politicians but even the followers need value reorientation. We most choose credible candidates. Muhammad Hussaini am a farmer I have a poultry,Sheep &Goat barn & Fish ponds.i am also a rice and millet farmer. 6 hours ago via mobile • 2 • Babagana Kyari Thank you sir for wonderful reminder and lesson through history. 6 hours ago via mobile • 1 • Mahmuda Mohammed Aliyu Bitter Truth 6 hours ago via mobile • 1 • Imonikhe Ahimie sardaunan is right when he speaks of the potential of northern nigeria to be a bread basket to africa but the fact is that that remains merely a potential. as muhammad points out, the real problem is one of leadership, and whilst the dehumanizing effec...See More 6 hours ago • Mahmuda Mohammed Aliyu Some of the solutions lie here https://facebook/story.php... 6 hours ago via mobile • Abdul-Kabir Yahaya Sardaunan Bunza, what M Hussain is saying is that we need more farmers like your good self. 6 hours ago via mobile • Edited • Bello Magaji All what i want to say youve said it all,keep it up
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