₦airaland Forum

After going through most of the posts on this thread, i feel sorry for the average Northerner whose destiny is out of his hands. After suffering untold hardship at the hands of his leaders and years of poverty and illiteracy by the ruling elite, he still gets blamed by his Southern brothers as the root of all evil in Nigeria.

I do agree with Nagoma on some issues regarding the coming of early western education to the North during Bristish colonial rule. The North already had a flourishing Islamic/Arabian civilisation. They could read and write in Arabic, wrote poems, books etc. Western education came to the North at a price. Missionaries run the schools and if you sent your child their, you risked him/her being influenced by the new religion. How many people nowadays will send their children to a religious school not their own ?? Be honest to yourselfs. Will a catholic send his child to a Sunna Islamic school or will a sunni muslim send his child to a jesuit school ?? Therefore, nobody should blame the Northerners for not wanting to send their children to those schools at that period in time.

However, times now have changed. As a Northerner, i can tell you that we like going to school and would love to be teachers ourselves. Unfortunately, circumstances beyond our control is working against us. The North sadly has no or little middle income class. You either belong among the elite (royalty) or the masses (talakawa). Poverty & Ignorance are the 2 major weapons that keep holding the North back. The Northwest (Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Sokoto) have some of the best schools in the North both at primary, secondary and University level.

For me, i am more interested in education at the primary and secondary level which i believe is the foundation for a strong education. Sadly, these are the most decayed in terms of infrastructure. No roofs, broken desks and chairs etc. The Elite who are in charge and are entrusted to cater to the masses use the peoples ignorance and poverty to squander and loot their resources. Nevertheless, some states are moving forward and investing heavily in education. Just because they don't advertise it on the tv and radio doesnt mean their is no work done. Am sure you guys have met Northerners in the US & UK who are doing their degress or M.sc. They must be doing something right to be admitted.

Blah ! Blah !!

What have any of you guys done to help bring awareness to these issues ?

It's so easy to sit down at home and criticize mobility nigeria. Even if Mobility Nigeria was not responsible for making RIM allow Nigerian users access to the Blackberry App World, they should be commended for at least drawing attention to it instead of hounding them the way texazz and co are doing. Go and open your website if you can do better before you criticize others.

@ Cyborg2011

A gaskiya dan uwa kayi magana. Zagin da kagani muke yi musu muna yi ne don saboda bacin rai da bakin hali da mutanen nan suke dura mana aman. Seun shi da kansa yace shi arne ne. Wato baya da addini. Shege, wannan guntun website in shine yake rudan sa. Kasan ance kudi watarana yakan sa hauka. By their nature kuma, duk wuni dan south yana mana kallon banza. Yaya to kage gani Seun zai kare mana yancin mu. Ko kula wa baya yi amma ya iya buda katon bakin sa idan anzo wajen zagin addinin mu ko shugabannin mu. Waton dan adam na da bakin zuciya especially wannan mutanen.

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