Former Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has opined that the that the insecurity and poverty escalating in northern Nigeria should be handled as a national emergency not a regional concern, saying that it has turn out to be so dire in the nation.
Talking on Tuesday throughout a panel session on the Nigeria Funding and Industrialisation Summit, NNIIS, 2025 organised by the Northern Elders Discussion board, NEF, in Abuja, Dogara expressed concern on the worsening bloodshed throughout the area.
The previous Speaker mentioned the magnitude of killings in the North had non secular implications, declaring that with the form of bloodletting that the area is witnessing, as an individual of religion, one will know that the area is working beneath a curse as a result of it’s human blood.
He defined that the impact of a curse is that one sweat with out outcomes, saying that it’s the cause why Northerners are sweating in that a part of the nation with none tangible final result.
The previous Speaker insisted that safety should be the highest precedence earlier than any significant growth might happen, urging governors in the 19 northern states to pool assets to fight the menace for the area to maneuver ahead in all sphere of life.
He recommended that if it might imply pulling all of the 19 northern states’ assets collectively to sort out insecurity, they need to do it, if not all their conversations right here will quantity to nothing.
Dogara additionally urged the area to cease relying on exterior options, saying northerners should take cost of their very own future and embrace radical, transformative motion to maneuver the area ahead by taking their future into their very own palms.
He argued that with out the event of the area’s huge inhabitants, Nigeria’s general progress would stay stalled.
He believed that the event of northern Nigeria isn’t a regional prerogative however should be seen as a national emergency, believing that if the huge variety of folks we’ve got in the North will not be developed, Nigeria goes nowhere.
The summit deliberated extensively on 4 key themes: Energy – bridging vitality deficits via decentralisation and partnerships.; Agriculture – shifting from subsistence to agro-industrial transformation; Digital Economic system & Innovation – leveraging know-how to unlock progress; Mining – selling inclusive and sustainable exploitation of mineral assets.
