A WAKE-UP CALL AND BLUNT TRUTH TO MY FELLOW NORTHERN BROTHERS.

Written by Hassan Stan-Labo

Bᴀɴᴅɪᴛʀʏ ᴀɴᴅ Bᴏᴋᴏ ʜᴀʀᴀᴍ : Tʜᴇ Nᴏʀᴛʜ sʟᴇᴘᴛ ғᴏʀ ᴛᴏᴏ ʟᴏɴɢ!

"The north must wake up now. It must not murder sleep.

The north saw nothing coming. Population was deemed strength. But it should have watched when others slowed down in breeding. It bred too many children and didn’t do much to care for them. They roamed the streets. Yet, it bred more. They forsook schools. And took to begging . Yet, it bred more. Those children, many of them, have gone feral. Now,the north cannot sleep. The north slept for too long.

Northern politicians lived in bubbles, in distant cities. Some governors literally ruled by ‘Wifi’. When they bothered to return to their state capitals, unemployed youths lined the streets to cheer them. In their narcissism , they said it was popularity. The naive jobless youths in their ignorance, considered them their own share of national big men.

So the northern politicians were safe and happy. They lived like lords, harvesting political rents. Their political estate was the large benighted population of the north whose votes made them national heroes. All they bothered about was winning elections and cornering privileges for their family and their friends.

The north is waking up. But it’s waking in fits and starts.

While it was asleep, corrupt politicians treated education as western adulteration of cherished conservative culture. The north lacked schools and teachers, and lacked hospitals and doctors and nurses. But their leaders couldn’t be bothered. The welfare of the poor was an abstract concept mouthed in campaign speeches.

Young doctors went for national youth service in the north and came back with tales of horror. Children and women died needlessly. Labour got obstructed and prolonged and the nearest hospital with a doctor was hundreds of kilometers away. Youth corps doctors were forced to do caesarean sections. We screamed when we shared the stories amongst ourselves those days.

The governors preferred playing emotional religious politics to building productive human capacity. So while some other parts of the country focused on education, some governors made sharia a project and built a large population of illiterate Almajiris.

And I think the north was pushed into deeper somnolence by tranquilizers like quota system and federal character. You can disagree with me. But I know competition would have awakened the north much earlier.

The north is rising. But it is still groggy.

The traditional institutions and the politicians underestimated the long term consequences of their fixation on electoral contests. Political power brought roads and more local government areas. The Federal Government built a refinery and sited federal institutions in some northern cities. But there was almost no attempt to educate the poor. Children roamed. Schools weren’t properly staffed. The three tiers of government left the smaller towns and rural areas in abject poverty and utter hopelessness. The private sector was absent. There was literally no man power for anything meaningful.

The politicians and retired soldiers cornered positions and oil wells. They rode in their big cars and flew in jets. They built big houses and sent their children to foreign lands for education. They let the ignorant poor to worship them and let them flourish in their ignorance. It all seemed peaceful at least. The rich in Kaduna , Kano and Abuja, played their polo. The poor children in Gamboru couldn’t get vaccines. They had to rely on Bill Gates and foreign charity to get, when they got. Poverty and disease and desertification battered and bruised them. The poor , illiterate and hopeless, in the slums of the big towns, in small towns and in the bushes in the hamlets found solace in religion. Radical preachers sneaked in and taught them comforting extremism.

The chickens are coming home to roost.

Banditry has taken over the parts of the north not ravaged by Boko Haram. Zamfara had once toyed with religious extremism. That former center of religious activism is now the devil’s workshop. Evil became so rife the former governor was ready to negotiate with demons who massacred and burnt whole villages. Children who didn’t go to school, who spent their entire lives in the wild, dragging cattle from Timbuktu to Calabar, had become possessed. They have forsaken religion and embraced the devil. And Zamfara is now thinking a mass literacy programme.

Kaduna, the center of the north has not been spared. Ethnic fault lines have been sharpened by frustration and hopelessness. Politicians had driven wedges between the poor to feather their political nests. Millions of unemployed youths are now finding guns and finding devilish impatience. Violence has mushroomed. And Kaduna is fast acquiring the character of Lebanon.

Our law enforcement agents are working hard. But they are overwhelmed. Law enforcement was designed to check and correct an exceptional few. And not to contain an epidemic of madness. From Benue to Taraba, from Katsina to Zamfara, it’s been violence after violence.

The north is waking up. I believe. But it has to find mental clarity, quickly. The north must institute a comprehensive population control measure. The north has to lock the tap. Mops wont do. The north lacks the resources to care for the children that it is currently producing on an industrial scale. It can’t abolish child malnutrition , Almajiri culture, high infant and maternal mortality until it puts a leash on its birthrate. Until the north checks its population growth rate it cannot check the wild fire of poverty that is ravaging its communities.

The north must wake up now.

Boko haram and rampant banditry have stabbed the north into wakefulness. But the north is waking up only in bits. The north is still sleepwalking.

The north left the tap running for too long. It is now flooded with problems that teeming illiteracy and joblessness create. The north must turn off the running tap first. The north must institute immediate population control. Yes, it will have to curb Almajiri by democratizing education. But it must shut the tap first. Without an effective and immediate population control policy , the north and the country is doomed.

It’s unfortunate it had to get to this. It’s unfortunate it had to take banditry for the north to think mass literacy and abolition of almajiri culture. Yobe has no existing factory. A bulk of the population of the Northeast lives in IDP camps. The future looks bleak . And there is no sense of urgency yet.

Northern billionaires must think industrialization of the north. It must be intentional. The potentials abound. There is a strong youthful population. They can’t wait for Bill Gates and Jimmy Carter.

The north must wake up now. It must not murder sleep again.

Watch your head sir
They are coming for you

budaatum:
A WAKE-UP CALL AND BLUNT TRUTH TO MY FELLOW NORTHERN BROTHERS.

Written by Hassan Stan-Labo

Bᴀɴᴅɪᴛʀʏ ᴀɴᴅ Bᴏᴋᴏ ʜᴀʀᴀᴍ : Tʜᴇ Nᴏʀᴛʜ sʟᴇᴘᴛ ғᴏʀ ᴛᴏᴏ ʟᴏɴɢ!

"The north must wake up now. It must not murder sleep.

The north saw nothing coming. Population was deemed strength. But it should have watched when others slowed down in breeding. It bred too many children and didn’t do much to care for them. They roamed the streets. Yet, it bred more. They forsook schools. And took to begging . Yet, it bred more. Those children, many of them, have gone feral. Now,the north cannot sleep. The north slept for too long.

Northern politicians lived in bubbles, in distant cities. Some governors literally ruled by ‘Wifi’. When they bothered to return to their state capitals, unemployed youths lined the streets to cheer them. In their narcissism , they said it was popularity. The naive jobless youths in their ignorance, considered them their own share of national big men.

So the northern politicians were safe and happy. They lived like lords, harvesting political rents. Their political estate was the large benighted population of the north whose votes made them national heroes. All they bothered about was winning elections and cornering privileges for their family and their friends.

The north is waking up. But it’s waking in fits and starts.

While it was asleep, corrupt politicians treated education as western adulteration of cherished conservative culture. The north lacked schools and teachers, and lacked hospitals and doctors and nurses. But their leaders couldn’t be bothered. The welfare of the poor was an abstract concept mouthed in campaign speeches.

Young doctors went for national youth service in the north and came back with tales of horror. Children and women died needlessly. Labour got obstructed and prolonged and the nearest hospital with a doctor was hundreds of kilometers away. Youth corps doctors were forced to do caesarean sections. We screamed when we shared the stories amongst ourselves those days.

The governors preferred playing emotional religious politics to building productive human capacity. So while some other parts of the country focused on education, some governors made sharia a project and built a large population of illiterate Almajiris.

And I think the north was pushed into deeper somnolence by tranquilizers like quota system and federal character. You can disagree with me. But I know competition would have awakened the north much earlier.

The north is rising. But it is still groggy.

The traditional institutions and the politicians underestimated the long term consequences of their fixation on electoral contests. Political power brought roads and more local government areas. The Federal Government built a refinery and sited federal institutions in some northern cities. But there was almost no attempt to educate the poor. Children roamed. Schools weren’t properly staffed. The three tiers of government left the smaller towns and rural areas in abject poverty and utter hopelessness. The private sector was absent. There was literally no man power for anything meaningful.

The politicians and retired soldiers cornered positions and oil wells. They rode in their big cars and flew in jets. They built big houses and sent their children to foreign lands for education. They let the ignorant poor to worship them and let them flourish in their ignorance. It all seemed peaceful at least. The rich in Kaduna , Kano and Abuja, played their polo. The poor children in Gamboru couldn’t get vaccines. They had to rely on Bill Gates and foreign charity to get, when they got. Poverty and disease and desertification battered and bruised them. The poor , illiterate and hopeless, in the slums of the big towns, in small towns and in the bushes in the hamlets found solace in religion. Radical preachers sneaked in and taught them comforting extremism.

The chickens are coming home to roost.

Banditry has taken over the parts of the north not ravaged by Boko Haram. Zamfara had once toyed with religious extremism. That former center of religious activism is now the devil’s workshop. Evil became so rife the former governor was ready to negotiate with demons who massacred and burnt whole villages. Children who didn’t go to school, who spent their entire lives in the wild, dragging cattle from Timbuktu to Calabar, had become possessed. They have forsaken religion and embraced the devil. And Zamfara is now thinking a mass literacy programme.

Kaduna, the center of the north has not been spared. Ethnic fault lines have been sharpened by frustration and hopelessness. Politicians had driven wedges between the poor to feather their political nests. Millions of unemployed youths are now finding guns and finding devilish impatience. Violence has mushroomed. And Kaduna is fast acquiring the character of Lebanon.

Our law enforcement agents are working hard. But they are overwhelmed. Law enforcement was designed to check and correct an exceptional few. And not to contain an epidemic of madness. From Benue to Taraba, from Katsina to Zamfara, it’s been violence after violence.

The north is waking up. I believe. But it has to find mental clarity, quickly. The north must institute a comprehensive population control measure. The north has to lock the tap. Mops wont do. The north lacks the resources to care for the children that it is currently producing on an industrial scale. It can’t abolish child malnutrition , Almajiri culture, high infant and maternal mortality until it puts a leash on its birthrate. Until the north checks its population growth rate it cannot check the wild fire of poverty that is ravaging its communities.

The north must wake up now.

Boko haram and rampant banditry have stabbed the north into wakefulness. But the north is waking up only in bits. The north is still sleepwalking.

The north left the tap running for too long. It is now flooded with problems that teeming illiteracy and joblessness create. The north must turn off the running tap first. The north must institute immediate population control. Yes, it will have to curb Almajiri by democratizing education. But it must shut the tap first. Without an effective and immediate population control policy , the north and the country is doomed.

It’s unfortunate it had to get to this. It’s unfortunate it had to take banditry for the north to think mass literacy and abolition of almajiri culture. Yobe has no existing factory. A bulk of the population of the Northeast lives in IDP camps. The future looks bleak . And there is no sense of urgency yet.

Northern billionaires must think industrialization of the north. It must be intentional. The potentials abound. There is a strong youthful population. They can’t wait for Bill Gates and Jimmy Carter.

The north must wake up now. It must not murder sleep again.

Karma

Sanusi has been hammering on this and it nearly consume his dignity....Op I pray u survive the stones that will be thrown at you.

Quotasystem vedaxacool and fizzination wont see it that way...to them the most important thing in life is that a northerner must be president and that an easterner must be kept far away from aso rock

The thing they dont see is that the poorest igbomen in nigeria are as confortable as average hausa artisans....the poorest hausamen (who are in millions) are beggers and homeless in eastern streets. Thats the only important thing...but they dont see it.

The urgency and obsession to hold the igboman down exposed their flanks,...so while the igboman honed his survival techniques and evolved to his finest forms,their exposed home front became a theatre of war and fireballs.. Its a shame how these ppl keep dragging the country back and in the mud.

emilas1979:
Watch your head sir
They are coming for you

Nobody is coming anywhere for my head emilas. My head is way too heavy for anyone to come for and I don't do fear. Besides, the problem the op points out affects us all. If you look carefully, you'll see "the children in our very own communities who don’t go to school, who spent their entire lives in the wild, dragging cattle from Timbuktu to Calabar, had become possessed", except perhaps the cattle is missing, but even the cattle possessed kids are terrorising as far as Calabar even though I personally insist it is the locals in disguise. And we all know those he describes as "northern politicians are really all Nigerian politicians.

I do disagree somewhat with Hassan Stan-Labo on one single point though. Where he says "The north has to lock the tap. Mops wont do", I can't help wonder how he plans to go about it. Does he plan to neuter some and castrate others I had to think, or doesn't he see the mop is education. It made all you reading this have smaller families and without it we'd be bunny rabbits like our parents were, though in their defence they had to hedge for losses. I can bet a penny you'd all likely have fewer kids than siblings when you're done.

42.54% of the population of Nigeria is currently between the ages of 0-14. That's a lot of school kids with potential for lots of alimanjeris so if they cannot go to school in Taraba why should sense not be mopped into their heads in Calabar or anywhere else in Nigeria? The laws that say they must be in school ought to be enforced, is what I think. They'd have fewer kids if they were educated, as difficult as it might seem, and the benefits are immense.

budaatum:
A WAKE-UP CALL AND BLUNT TRUTH TO MY FELLOW NORTHERN BROTHERS.

Written by Hassan Stan-Labo

Bᴀɴᴅɪᴛʀʏ ᴀɴᴅ Bᴏᴋᴏ ʜᴀʀᴀᴍ : Tʜᴇ Nᴏʀᴛʜ sʟᴇᴘᴛ ғᴏʀ ᴛᴏᴏ ʟᴏɴɢ!

"The north must wake up now. It must not murder sleep.

The north saw nothing coming. Population was deemed strength. But it should have watched when others slowed down in breeding. It bred too many children and didn’t do much to care for them. They roamed the streets. Yet, it bred more. They forsook schools. And took to begging . Yet, it bred more. Those children, many of them, have gone feral. Now,the north cannot sleep. The north slept for too long.

Northern politicians lived in bubbles, in distant cities. Some governors literally ruled by ‘Wifi’. When they bothered to return to their state capitals, unemployed youths lined the streets to cheer them. In their narcissism , they said it was popularity. The naive jobless youths in their ignorance, considered them their own share of national big men.

So the northern politicians were safe and happy. They lived like lords, harvesting political rents. Their political estate was the large benighted population of the north whose votes made them national heroes. All they bothered about was winning elections and cornering privileges for their family and their friends.

The north is waking up. But it’s waking in fits and starts.

While it was asleep, corrupt politicians treated education as western adulteration of cherished conservative culture. The north lacked schools and teachers, and lacked hospitals and doctors and nurses. But their leaders couldn’t be bothered. The welfare of the poor was an abstract concept mouthed in campaign speeches.

Young doctors went for national youth service in the north and came back with tales of horror. Children and women died needlessly. Labour got obstructed and prolonged and the nearest hospital with a doctor was hundreds of kilometers away. Youth corps doctors were forced to do caesarean sections. We screamed when we shared the stories amongst ourselves those days.

The governors preferred playing emotional religious politics to building productive human capacity. So while some other parts of the country focused on education, some governors made sharia a project and built a large population of illiterate Almajiris.

And I think the north was pushed into deeper somnolence by tranquilizers like quota system and federal character. You can disagree with me. But I know competition would have awakened the north much earlier.

The north is rising. But it is still groggy.

The traditional institutions and the politicians underestimated the long term consequences of their fixation on electoral contests. Political power brought roads and more local government areas. The Federal Government built a refinery and sited federal institutions in some northern cities. But there was almost no attempt to educate the poor. Children roamed. Schools weren’t properly staffed. The three tiers of government left the smaller towns and rural areas in abject poverty and utter hopelessness. The private sector was absent. There was literally no man power for anything meaningful.

The politicians and retired soldiers cornered positions and oil wells. They rode in their big cars and flew in jets. They built big houses and sent their children to foreign lands for education. They let the ignorant poor to worship them and let them flourish in their ignorance. It all seemed peaceful at least. The rich in Kaduna , Kano and Abuja, played their polo. The poor children in Gamboru couldn’t get vaccines. They had to rely on Bill Gates and foreign charity to get, when they got. Poverty and disease and desertification battered and bruised them. The poor , illiterate and hopeless, in the slums of the big towns, in small towns and in the bushes in the hamlets found solace in religion. Radical preachers sneaked in and taught them comforting extremism.

The chickens are coming home to roost.

Banditry has taken over the parts of the north not ravaged by Boko Haram. Zamfara had once toyed with religious extremism. That former center of religious activism is now the devil’s workshop. Evil became so rife the former governor was ready to negotiate with demons who massacred and burnt whole villages. Children who didn’t go to school, who spent their entire lives in the wild, dragging cattle from Timbuktu to Calabar, had become possessed. They have forsaken religion and embraced the devil. And Zamfara is now thinking a mass literacy programme.

Kaduna, the center of the north has not been spared. Ethnic fault lines have been sharpened by frustration and hopelessness. Politicians had driven wedges between the poor to feather their political nests. Millions of unemployed youths are now finding guns and finding devilish impatience. Violence has mushroomed. And Kaduna is fast acquiring the character of Lebanon.

Our law enforcement agents are working hard. But they are overwhelmed. Law enforcement was designed to check and correct an exceptional few. And not to contain an epidemic of madness. From Benue to Taraba, from Katsina to Zamfara, it’s been violence after violence.

The north is waking up. I believe. But it has to find mental clarity, quickly. The north must institute a comprehensive population control measure. The north has to lock the tap. Mops wont do. The north lacks the resources to care for the children that it is currently producing on an industrial scale. It can’t abolish child malnutrition , Almajiri culture, high infant and maternal mortality until it puts a leash on its birthrate. Until the north checks its population growth rate it cannot check the wild fire of poverty that is ravaging its communities.

The north must wake up now.

Boko haram and rampant banditry have stabbed the north into wakefulness. But the north is waking up only in bits. The north is still sleepwalking.

The north left the tap running for too long. It is now flooded with problems that teeming illiteracy and joblessness create. The north must turn off the running tap first. The north must institute immediate population control. Yes, it will have to curb Almajiri by democratizing education. But it must shut the tap first. Without an effective and immediate population control policy , the north and the country is doomed.

It’s unfortunate it had to get to this. It’s unfortunate it had to take banditry for the north to think mass literacy and abolition of almajiri culture. Yobe has no existing factory. A bulk of the population of the Northeast lives in IDP camps. The future looks bleak . And there is no sense of urgency yet.

Northern billionaires must think industrialization of the north. It must be intentional. The potentials abound. There is a strong youthful population. They can’t wait for Bill Gates and Jimmy Carter.

The north must wake up now. It must not murder sleep again.

when will the north concern killer herdsman

The northerners are not only sleeping but snoring biggerly

At the time when Umar Farouk Abdul-mutallab nearly bombed a plane going to United States, late Dora Akunyili as then minister of information bragged that Nigerians were not terrorists.

Today, Nigeria is home to some of the most dreaded terrorists that the world has ever known. I am sure that she would have taken back those words if she had been alive today.

Terrorism and banditry have always been Nigeria's biggest export from Nigeria's north.

No be today!

selemempe:
Quotasystem vedaxacool and fizzination wont see it that way...to them the most important thing in life is that a northerner must be president and that an easterner must be kept far away from aso rock

The thing they dont see is that the poorest igbomen in nigeria are as confortable as average hausa artisans....the poorest hausamen (who are in millions) are beggers and homeless in eastern streets. Thats the only important thing...but they dont see it.

Why bring examples with the SE, sometimes it's you SE that bring problems to yourselves.. it's not your suffer really.

Mightyhaiz:
The urgency and obsession to hold the igboman down exposed their flanks,...so while the igboman honed his survival techniques and evolved to his finest forms,their exposed home front became a theatre of war and fireballs.. Its a shame how these ppl keep dragging the country back and in the mud.

Nothing Igbo was mentioned in that article to bring about comparison and victim mentality. it is just a call to the north to wake up..

As a core northerner myself I find this write-up very factual. Our people need to stop breeding like rats

Whatever happens in the north should stay in the north please. They're the cause of whatever that befalls them but asking other regions to come clean or cater for their mess is what should not be . South too get our own wahala ,but we can still contain ourselves. Kudos to you OP for this thoughtful write up.

Esseite:


Nothing Igbo was mentioned in that article to bring about comparison and victim mentality. it is just a call to the north to wake up..

And these insurgencies and other social problems are not rubbing off on everybody including the Igbo's? Plus,..when u get used to killing and persecuting a group..what u don't know is that you are inculcating a killing culture in your youths.. A culture that can blossom and take any form. When these groups started by killing strangers , how many strong voices from those regions stood firmly against it?

This OP is being hypocritical by not placing the problem the north is facing solely on the shoulders of the Islamic religion. Religious fanaticism is the reason why the elites live the way they do and the poor act the way they do.

This is similar to the story of the South.

gwarotango:
As a core northerner myself I find this write-up very factual. Our people need to stop breeding like rats

What is happening in Nigeria is national. The politicians have no tribe. Their only tribe is politics.
Unbridled breeding is going on everywhere in Nigeria, the only difference is that the southerners try to give their children some education. Imagine states in the south with budget higher than that of Liberia that cannot boast of a single industrial undertaking for nearly 22 years and people are still hailing the governors as their saviours.
We will only come out of this mess when we realize that it takes the citizens to build a nation and that no nation grows on auto pilot.

gwarotango:
As a core northerner myself I find this write-up very factual. Our people need to stop breeding like rats

my long gee gworotango

inakwa na lafia inagejia
bakayana ina achi amu na aka kwoi

Gandollar:
This OP is being hypocritical by not placing the problem the north is facing solely on the shoulders of the Islamic religion. Religious fanaticism is the reason why the elites live the way they do and the poor act the way they do.

you are just a manifestation of Nigeria's problem!


imagine!

who mentioned anything religion here?

Chai!!!

Treepower2000:

...mthe only difference is that the southerners try to give their children some education

Which education pls? Everytime we shout the south is more educated, I wonder what education we boast of... Females in southern universities hiding their pants so their southern brothers do not steal them to do 'yahoo'. If our education is as good as we tout it, how does such vapid mentality exist within 'citadels' of learning.


We are grossly miseducated. Our schools are just fellowship centers masking as educational institutions.
They've bevome more of miseducation centers - fiercely loyal to the task of adoring old, dead ideas.

Gandollar:
This OP is being hypocritical by not placing the problem the north is facing solely on the shoulders of the Islamic religion. Religious fanaticism is the reason why the elites live the way they do and the poor act the way they do.

Written by Hassan Stan-Labo

Please don't advise them, let them keep deceiving themselves with population might and politics

HappyPagan:

Which education pls? Everytime we shout the south is more educated, I wonder what education we boast of... Females in southern universities hiding their pants so their southern brothers do not steal them to make yahoo. If our education is as good as we tout it, how does such vapid mentality exist within 'citadels' of learning.


We are grossly miseducated. Our schools are just fellowship centers masking as educational institutions.
They've bevome more of miseducation centers - fiercely loyal to the task of adoring old, dead ideas.

Very dumb comment, extremely dumb, you wanna compare southern education with the North? Mtcheew

gaetano:


Written by Hassan Stan-Labo

Yes him. Buddah is not the Original poster.

tigerclaws:
my long gee gworotango

inakwa na lafia inagejia
bakayana ina achi amu na aka kwoi

Yowaa... Walahi umunneya nama nama

qwertyboss:


you are just a manifestation of Nigeria's problem!


imagine!

who mentioned anything religion here?

Chai!!!

. No I'm not. These realities were there even before I was born.

Religion made them reject education.

Religion made them reject immunization

Religion made them reject integration

Their elites used religion to prevent them from reasoning for themselves.

Religion made them breed like rats because religion told a man it was ok to marry many wives

Religion made them take up arm's against the state. If you know what goes into the rebuilding of these communities ravaged by terrorism, you would marvel.

I can go on and on...

HappyPagan:

Which education pls? Everytime we shout the south is more educated, I wonder what education we boast of... Females in southern universities hiding their pants so their southern brothers do not steal them to make yahoo. If our education is as good as we tout it, how does such vapid mentality exist within 'citadels' of learning.


We are grossly miseducated. Our schools are just fellowship centers masking as educational institutions.
They've bevome more of miseducation centers - fiercely loyal to the task of adoring old, dead ideas.

I only supported the Op and
I said some education. I did not say education. I don't know why we always come to online to fight. I only tried to highlight that there is no great difference between the north and the south and you feel your contribution is to fight me which also depicts why we are where we are.

Might you consider they were intentionally kept ignorant so they could be controlled with religion? I'm suggesting they are victims and not willing compliers in their own exploitation.

Gandollar:
. No I'm not. These realities were there even before I was born.

Religion made them reject education.

Religion made them reject immunization

Religion made them reject integration

Their elites used religion to prevent them from reasoning for themselves.

Religion made them breed like rats because religion told a man it was ok to marry many wives

Religion made them take up arm's against the state. If you know what goes into the rebuilding of these communities ravaged by terrorism, you would marvel.

I can go on and on...

amaben2020:


Very dumb comment, extremely dumb, you wanna compare southern education with the North? Mtcheew

Beautiful contribution. Articulately written and filled with explosive facts and wisdom. Thanks for blessing this forum with your knowledge.

Treepower2000:

I only supported the Op and
I said some education. I did not say education.

Thanks for the clarification.

amaben2020:
Please don't advise them, let them keep deceiving themselves with population might and politics

Do they even have an actual population. They don't. After breeding they send off these children never to return. The northern population is a cocktail of all ethnicities of the Sahel region. What the north can proudly boast of is their large expanse of land which again is mostly arid.
But whatever advantage their large expanse of land conferred on them has been defeated because it meant that when terror strikes, the people can't help fast until an entire community has been razed.