₦airaland Forum

malali:
The North has been neglected by its own leaders.

Many archaic systems remain in place, systems that no longer work in today’s world. The Almajiri system, for example, could be reformed to include Western education, trade, and artisanship, giving children practical skills alongside religious instruction.

Agricultural and farming schools, with commercial-scale animal husbandry, could be established, similar to successful models in Brazil and China. Food-processing facilities could also be set up to prevent the waste of harvests every season.

Yet the leaders remain silent on development. Their voices are loud only when competing for power, and they often use that power to oppress their own people.

Consider this: the primary healthcare center in Buhari’s village is likely under-resourced, and students in local schools sit on the ground. Katsina natives have held power for over a decade, including Yaradua and Buhari.

Meanwhile, Dangote is worth $30 billion. Yet the public facilities in his hometown,schools, clinics,remain woefully inadequate. The contrast is stark and undeniable.

anonimi:
Where have you been in the last decade

Power deficiency has been banished as promised by leaders looters of All Promises Cancelled, APC as they promised. Just chill and see the light at the end of APC toilet.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lba6Uf64Ogc?si=BiD50DTdgd9l2WiB



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dgitrader:
Theres is corruption all over the world
But its type in arewaland, is institutionalised by religious, tribal, class, and political bigotry. Deep and firmly rooted, it can not be uprooted. All this talk about lack of development, insecurity, radicalism, diseases, crisis, etc are just the fruits, the root is deep and not talked about.

Salewa97:
Nice one from both Atiku and Dangote.

It's time for the North to come together and deliberate on how to take the region to the next level.

ACF should take the lead on this

dre11:
•The region may sink deeper —Atiku warns



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/12/why-promising-northern-industries-collapsed-dangote/

dre11:
•The region may sink deeper —Atiku warns



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/12/why-promising-northern-industries-collapsed-dangote/

dre11:
•The region may sink deeper —Atiku warns

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/12/why-promising-northern-industries-collapsed-dangote/

CodeTemplarr:
The money they use to fund religion in a year will banish power deficiency for life. It is a matter of priority. Today, they are hungry but can buy expensive weapons to fuel insecurity. It has always been a matter of priority for all regions of Nigeria.

Vision101:
No
You are economical with truth. Who destroyed the power set up? Answer - Atiku.

Who privatized nepa and sold it to friends without capacity - answer Atiku.

Under whose regime did we invest the highest amount in electricity without results - answer OBJ of PDP.

Look at yourself in the mirror and tell me if you resemble truth.

anonimi:
Atiku was vice president to Obasanjo and both of them left office 18 years ago. It’s been 10 years since APC took office, why have they failed to prosecute Obasanjo and Atiku if they did anything wrong in the power sector?

When you look at yourself in the mirror, do you resemble truth, along with your leaders looters in All Promises Cancelled, APC

Vision101:
Mention one former president of this nation civilian and military apart from Abacha that has been prosecuted? What OBJ and Atiku did to power in this nation is an open secret. Has OBJ not openly said it concerning Atiku? Who balcanized NEPA?

Did we get better or worse?

Do you have more regular power supply now than before? The present regime is struggling to clear huge backlog of debt owed to gas suppliers to the power sector. This has impeded expansion and development in the power and gas sector. Who incurred the debt? I can ask more. Please provide CONCRETE answers if you want me to reply.

anonimi:
PDP privatised the generation and distribution parts of NEPA in 2013, just as PDP privatised the petrochemicals division of NNPC to Indorama in 2006.

Both privatisation schemes in the electricity and petrochemical sectors have been successful.

A-looter Propaganda Congress, APC has failed to deliver their campaign promises to generate more electricity and reduce debt. Instead they have had more grid collapses and higher debts than PDP.

nicedayontop:
The northern leaders have always been economical with the Truth. I expect Dangote and Atiku to hit the nail about the causes of underdevelopment in the North. It's quite conspicuous; the growing insecurity situations caused by almajiri system where little children are being taught to loathe western education, priotise extreme Islamic rites, polygamy, indoctrination of young minds against other religions and the practice of sharia law which, since inception, has failed to prosecute any northern leader or governor for looting and abuse of power. The north has created the monsters which are devouring the people in the region resulting to more poverty and hardship of unimaginable magnitude.

bixton:
Please explain the bolded.....

Successful, (generation and distribution parts of NEPA) in what way?

NEPC: Non-oil exports revenue hit $4.82bn in 2022 — up by 40%

“About 214 different products ranging from manufactured, semi-processed, solid minerals to raw agricultural products were exported in 2022,” he said.

“Of these products exported, urea/fertiliser topped the list with 32.87 percent.

“The emergence of urea/fertiliser as the highest exported product in 2022 can be attributed to the Russia-Ukraine war which created an avenue for Nigeria’s urea/fertiliser to thrive.

“It is worthy to note that our products were exported to 122 countries with Brazil recording the highest import value of 12.27 percent.”

Yakusak provided a breakdown of non-oil performance, saying 1,172 exporters participated, with Indorama-Eleme Fertilizer and Chemical Limited leading with 23.25 percent.

https://www.thecable.ng/nepc-non-oil-exports-revenue-hit-4-82bn-in-2022-up-by-40/amp

anonimi:
The improvements observed in power supply must be due to privatised DISCOs working on a swim or sink mindset to make profit for their owners, from which governments (local, state and federal) obtain taxes instead of paying subsidies.

I also mentioned petrochemicals, right?

anonimi:
PDP privatised the generation and distribution parts of NEPA in 2013, just as PDP privatised the petrochemicals division of NNPC to Indorama in 2006.

Both privatisation schemes in the electricity and petrochemical sectors have been successful.

SixSeven:
Northern Nigeria stands today as a wounded giant, a region caught between the memory of what the Sardauna dreamed and the stark reality created by those who inherited his mantle but not his moral weight. The promise of a people rising through education, productive labour and communal dignity has been slowly suffocated by a ruling class more devoted to its own comfort than to the welfare of the millions in its charge. Power has been held tightly, yet its dividends seldom reach the ground. Poverty spreads like a harmattan fire, children drift out of school, and entire communities live at the mercy of bandits who move with the audacity of men who know the state has abandoned its duty. They call them unknown gunmen, like they are unknown soldiers.

In place of principled leadership, religion is deployed as a curtain behind which incompetence and greed hide. Criticism is dismissed as sacrilege, and the faithful are urged to be patient even as their world collapses around them. And when voices beyond our borders, including Trump’s recent warning, point to the gathering storm, the official response is silence, an indictment in itself.

This is not the North the Sardauna laboured for. It is a fragile creation of neglect, denial and the smallness of those who should have stood tall. The North should tell itself the truth and stop blaming others.
This is Northern Nigeria one year before independence. Ask, what happened



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjG-HxX6Dw4

Only truth, courage and accountable leadership can begin the work of restoration. Conscience is an open wound. Only truth can heal it.

plaetton:
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Correction:
The Sarduana labored for a Northern Nigeria that is exactly what it is today.

The Sarduana never believed in a truly united Nigeria where every part of the country had equal access. The Sarduana dreamed of a Nigeria of Northern Supremacy, not a united, equally yoked nation sharing the same dreams.

Subsequent leaders of Northern Nigeria have viewed a truly united and equal Nigeria with the same contempt and delusions of a God-given dominion over resources of the nation.

Of course, the Sarduana could not have had the foresight to have seen the dangerous seeds he was sowing.

And so, "The Chickens have come to roost".
The North is characterized by people and leaders who are too afraid to play and compete fairly in any area of economic and political life.

The leaders, often bereft of modern innovative ideas, choose the easy way of using religion as a very convenient camouflage to continue to perpetuate their feudalistic worldview.
Today, Sarduana's Northern Nigeria is the poorest and most dangerous place on Earth.

Great Job Sarduana!

Your short-sighted legacy lives on.

Vision101:
Success whaaaaat? Are you kidding me? You don't have to lie to truths that are in public domain.

A lot of the discos are almost insolvent.

anonimi:
Fashola to Nigerians: 'If You Want to Have Stable Electricity Supply, Vote PDP Out in 2015'

Jul 11, 2014.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, while marking his 2,600 days in office at an elaborate ceremony held at the Blue Roof of the Lagos Television premises, has said voting out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power in next year’s general election is the only way the country can have stable electricity.

According to The Nation, Fashola said electricity crisis in the country is caused by lack of ideas and insincerity of purpose on the part of Federal Government.

"Yes I agree with you that it is possible to generate electricity and to make sure that everybody in this country has electricity, we have to do the right thing. But you know what, the only way that you and I will have electricity in this country will be to vote out the PDP.

https://thenationonlineng.net/only-way-to-have-stable-electricity-is-to-vote-out-pdp-says-fashola/#google_vignette

SixSeven:
It's an irony that this is where we are today vs Sardauna's vision on education

anonimi:
Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner
September 4, 2022

The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.

The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/ratio-of-public-to-private-schools-in-lagos-state-is-one-to-22-%E2%80%95-commissioner/

malali:

Consider this: the primary healthcare center in Buhari’s village is likely under-resourced, and students in local schools sit on the ground. Katsina natives have held power for over a decade, including Yaradua and Buhari.

Meanwhile, Dangote is worth $30 billion. Yet the public facilities in his hometown,schools, clinics,remain woefully inadequate. The contrast is stark and undeniable.