Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday in Benin, the Edo State capital, advocated that education remained the most potent solution to the Boko Haram scourge. He made the recommendation while speaking on the topic: “Effective Educational System : A Panacea for Societal

Development and Transformation”, during the 11th Convocation Lecture of the Benson Idahosa University (BIU) in Benin. He condemned the negative effect of social media on students, pupils and even parents and teachers who he said are fast losing the moral grip of their wards. According to Chief Obasanjo, who carpeted religious leaders who had abandoned preaching tolerance and peace to violence and extremism, said, for the war on Boko Haram to be won irrespective of the military onslaught, there was need for education to be used as a tool
“Education is a moral enterprise, which we need to re-engage. The issue of Boko Haram, President Buhari should also tackle it from the angle of morale education, if we are able to tackle Boko Haram with education in our schools, both in the social media that they use, we will dilute their messages and positively win their hearts and others who have been swayed by the ji­ hadists messages.

“To succeed with counter messages, we need to be more appealing, and truthful and as intense as those of Boko Haram if not more. The capacity of all teachers would be strengthened to deliver such messages; morning and afternoon assemblies of our primary and secondary schools should have a strong dose of such messages, our airwaves and social media should also be saturated with such positive messages. Even if we defeat Boko Haram in the battle front, we need education to sustain the victory. “Let me give you an insight. In 2010 there was a survey of education in Nigeria and among the six geo-political zones. In the Southwest, it was 79 per cent that are educated, in the Southeast, it is about 78 per cent, in the Northeast, where Boko Haram dominates, it is 19 per cent and that is one of the reasons people believe that Boko Haram was a menace waiting to happen and it doesn’t matter what we do,

we have to reverse that trend maybe the situation has even gone worse in the last five years because people have moved out of school some schools have been destroyed.”
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I think OBJ is somehow right...u can't be educated and they will be given u N2500 to commit suicide in killing people...d illiteracy level is very high in north compare to other region of d country...

Obasanjo again?? Now he's giving solutions? Why didn't he give it during GEJ's regime? wtf is this nîgga trying to prove now?

hmmmmm

Baboon turning Wole Soyinka overnight. He has succeeded in dethroning GEJ, let's see ur worth this time with bh boyz.

will this loud mouthed, incestuous creature shut that hole in his monkey-like face already?......what did he do to improve education when he was in the position to?

THREAD OF THE WAILERS, BY THE WAILERS AND FOR THE WAILERS These same clowns were hailing Jonathan when he was using the military to block governors convoys from going to political relies. This same clowns saw nothing wrong when Jonathan was shutting down air ports to stop the opposition from traveling to ralies. This same hypocrites, saw nothing wrong when Oshiomole's houses were surrounded my armed soldiers during election. Or is it Asiwajus house in Ikoyi where masked soldiers kept watch or the sealing of NASS by the police? JONATHAN WAS NEVER AWARE OF ANY OF THIS THE SAME CONFUSED LOTS CALLING NIGERIA A ZOO ARE NOW FIGHTING FOR AN "ABOKKI" THAT THEY FEEL ARE THE GENESIS OF THEIR PROBLEM, THE SAME WAY THEY HAIL FAYOSE A "YOLOBA" WHOM THEY BELIEVE CONIVED WITH THE Northerners TO COMPOUND THEIR PROBLEMS Wailing continues for 8 years ooooo.......koboko96

Good Governance, Education and Positive continuous Orientation are the solution against radical Ideology !!!

Ishilove , Lalasticlala ... FP material don land o !!!