13 EVIDENCE THAT YORUBAS HAVE DECLINED MISERABLLY

TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN MUCH IS EXPECTED FROM AND MUCH WAS GIVEN TO YORUBA,  BUT WE ARE DECLING BECAUSE OF YORUBA SELFISHNESS, CORRUPTION AND WICKEDNESS TO OUR CORPORATE AND EDUCATION CULTURE

AFIS AND VAL OJO - YORUBA HAVE DECLINE MISERABLY AND IGBOS ARE NOT THE REASON


AFIS AND VALANTINE OJO,

IGBOS ARE NOT YOUR PROBLEM IN NIGERIA RIGHT NOW OR  BEFORE WHEN YOU HAD YOUR FREE EDUCATION AND FREE HEALTH CARE BUT TODAY YOU ARE DECLINING IN EDUCATION AND HEALTH ETC. BUT YOU ARE NOT FOCUSING ON IT, BUT RATHER YOU KEEP CURSING AND INSULTING IGBOS EVERY DAY AND EVERY NIGHT.


YES IGBOS HAVE OUR OWN SERIOUS PROBLEMS INTERNALLY LIKE IN EDUCATION, HEALTH, KIDNAPPING , CRIMANALS, DRUG DEALERS, 419 ETC AND  I AGREE THESE ARE PROBLEMS IN IGBOLAND AND IT IS REALLY AFFECTING IGBOS SERIOUSLY, BUT  MAJORITY  IGBOS ARE WORKING ON IT AND JUST AS YOU CAN POINT OUT MANY IGBO PROBELMS, YOU CAN ALSO POINT OUT MANY GOOD EFFORT AND HARD WORKING IGBOS WHO ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THINGS LIKE OHAHAZE NDIGBO, CHIEF RALPH UWECHUE, DR. ANYAOKU, PROFESSOR BART NNAJI, DR. OLISA AGBAKOBA, DR. ALEX EKWUMEME, OJUKWU, GOVERNOR OBI, GOVERNOR ELCHI, GOVERNOR CHIME,  IGBOS EZES AND CHIEF, SOME IGBO GOVERNORS, IGBO YOUTH MOVEMENT AND MANY IGBO SELF HELP GROUPS AT HOME AND ABROAD AND IN DIASPORA ETC.


IGBOS AGREE THAT WE DO HAVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS INTERNALLY BUT IGBOS ARE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT, ESPECIALLY AFTER IT TOOK US MANY YEARS  (40 YEAR) TO RECOVER AND STILL RECOVERING FROM OUR SAD EXPERIENCE OF THE CIVIL WAR   TRIGERED AND INSTIGATED BY YORUBAS WHO INSTIGATED THE CIVIL WAR

 
1966 COUP PLANNERS: SENIOR OFFICERS IN NIGERIA MILITARY

MAJOR,  CHUKWUMA NZEOGWU - ANIOMA IGBO
MAJOR,  EMMANUEL IFEAJUNA - ANIOMA IGBO
MAJOR,  CHUKWUKA  - ANIOMA IGBO
CAPTAIN,  ADELEKE - YORUBA
LIEUTENANT,  FOLA OYEWOLE - YORUBA
BRIGEDIAR,  VICTOR BANJO - YORUBA
MAJOR, WALE ADEMOYEGA - YORUBA
LIEUTENANT, FOLA OLAFIMIHA - YORUBA
LIEUTENANT, A.N. C AZUBOUGOR - ANIOMA IGBO
LIEUTENANT, A.A.O EGBIKOR  - ANIOMA IGBO
COLONEL,  NWAWO - ANIOMA IGBO
COLONEL,  CYRIL IWEZE - ANIOMA IGBO
COLONEL,  NWAJEI - ANIOMA IGBO
COLONEL, MIKE OKWECHIME  - ANIOMA IGBO
MAJOR, ALBERT OKONKWO - ANIOMA IGBO
CAPTAIN, HENRY IGBOBA - ANIOMA IGBOS


YES, VAL AND AFIS, SOME IGBOS CAN DENY BEING IGBO THAT GOOD TOO, BUT REMEMBER THAT JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD WAS ALSO DENIED BY JUDAS AND OTHER FOLLOWERS WHEN THINGS GOT BAD,  AND IGBOS SHOULD NOT BE SUPRISED AT THE ATITUDE OF SOME IGBOS WHO ARE LIKE JUDAS AND ARE DENYING THEIR IGBONESS. AFTER ALL EASTERN GERMANY DENIED THAT THEY WERE GERMANS, UNTILL GERMAN BECAME STRONG AGAIN AND THE ARE BACK NOW  AND SAME THING WITH KOREAS AND JAPAN ETC. ONCE YOU LOSE A WAR OR FACING OBSTACLE IN LIFE YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS WILL DENY YOU.

ALSO, WHEN THE SOVIET UNION HAD PROBLEMS AND LOST POWER MANY OF ITS PEOPLE AND CITIZENS DENIED BEING RUSSIANS AND USSR AND BREAK AWAY,  BUT SOME OF THEM ARE RETURNING WHEN THEY COMPLETE THEIR DREAMING AND RUSSIA IS COMING BACK.  THE SAME THING IS ALSO HAPPENING IN YORUBA LAND, SOME YORUBAS IN KOGI AND KWARA STATE HAVE DENIED BEING YORUBA OR TO ASSOCIATE WITH YORUBA BUT RATHER THEY ASSOCIATE WITH THE HAUSAS AND THE NORTH BECAUSE THEY SEE POWER AND OPPORTUNITY AND THATS LIFE,  LIKE THE LATE CHIEF AWONIYI WHO NEVER WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING YORUBA OR BELONG WITH YORUBA IN HIS LIFE, BUT WHEN HE DIED HIS SO CALLED NORTHEN BROTHERS COULD NOT EVEN COME TO BURY HIM. IT WAS HIS YORUBA PEOPLE THAT CAME TO BURY HIM WITH PRIDE AND THATS LIFE.


PLEASE AFIS AND VAL OJO. BELOW IS ABOUT 13 POINTS AND EVIDENCE THAT YORUBAS HAVE THEIR OWN SERIOUS PROBELMS AND YORUBAS ARE DECLINING IN INFLUENCE IN EDUCATION, GOVERNANCE, CORPORATE INFLUENCE, BUSINESS, HEALTH, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ETC. YORUBA SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN A BETTER PLACE IF YOU CAN JUST FOCUS ON YOUR SELF AND LEAVE IGBOS ALONE, BUT TODAY IGBOS ARE BEATING YOU TO THE DUST. IN EDUCATION ENROLLMENT, UNIVERSITY GRADUATION, SECONDARY AND PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT AND GRADUATION AND IN EUROPE AND AMERICA IGBOS ARE EXCELING AND IN ASIA JUST GO TO THE SEA PORTS AND BIG CITIES IN CHINA, SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA AND ALL THE ASIAN TIGERS COUNTRIES IGBOS ARE ESTABLISHING IMPRESSIVE GLOBAL PRESENCE IN EUROPE, ASIA AMERICA, ENGLAND ETC. AND YES WE HAVE OUR OWN MANY MANY BAD EGGS IN IGBOLAND LIKE KIDNAPPERS, DRUG DEALERS, CORRUPT IGBOS, THIEVES, CRIMINALS,  BUT YORUBA HAS A BIGGER PROBLEM AS MUCH WAS GIVEN TO THEM AND MUCH IS EXPECTED BUT YORUBA IS DECLINING AND ALL OF US ARE LOSING BECUSE OF IT.

13 EVIDENCE THAT YORUBAS HAVE DECLINED MISERABLLY AND IGBOS DID NO T DO IT

(1) http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/feb/101.htmlYORUBAS LEADING IN EDUCATION BEFORE IN AFRICA AND NIGERIA  HAS FALLEN BEHIND,  AS ALL  YORUBA PROFESSORS IN YORUBA AND NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES HAVE DESTROYED NIGERIA AND YORUBA UNIVERSITIES,  AND ARE NOW HEADING CHURCHES, MEGA CHURCHES AND PRAYERS GROUPS ALONG LAGOS- IBADAN EXPRESSWAY, IBADAN- IFE EXPRESS WAYS AND ALL OVER YORUBA LAND YORUBA PROFESSORS ARE NOW FISHING FOR DOLLARS IN CHURCHES AS OVER SEERS OF DOLLARS.
 http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/feb/101.html

(2)http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/feb/101.html IN EDUCATION ENROLLMENT, GRADES AND GRADUATION FROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL,SECONDARY SCHOOL, UNIVERSITIES TO GRAUDATED SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA, AFRICA AND IN DIASPORA EVERY WHERE YORUBAS ARE NOT LEADING ANY MORE AS THEY HAVE FALLEN BEHIND BECAUSE THE IS NO MORE FREE EDUCATION, NO BUSARY AND NO MORE FREE MONEY.http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/feb/101.html


(3) YORUBA CORPORATE AND BANKING TITAINS LIKE RUFUS GIWA, KOLADE, AKINGBOLA, IBRU ETC. HAS ALL DESTROYED NIGERIA CORPORATE  RESPONSIBILITY AND DESTROYED NIGERIA CORPORATIONS, FOREIGN CORPORATION,  AND NIGERIA BIG BANKS THEY WERE HEADING ALL ALONG,  BECAUSE AFTER THE NIGERIA CIVIL WAR, YORUBA WERE BLESSED SINCE THE IGBOS WERE DEFEATED AND LACKED MANPOWER THEN AND WERE RELEGATED, BUT YORUBA GAINED INFLUENCE AT THE TIME WITH THEIR LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION AND MANPOWER AND THEY STOLE AND CORRUPTLY DESTROYED ALL THE MULTI NATIONAL COMPANIES THEY WERE HEADING AND RAN ALL OF THEM TO THE GROUND. TODAY CORPORATE LIFE AND CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY IN NIGERIA HAS BEEN DESTROYED BY YORUBA GREED AND AS SUCH THEY DAYS YORUBA DETERMINING CORPORATE AND EDUCATION LEADERHIP IN NIGERIA IS GONE FOR GOOD.


(4)YORUBA WAS ALSO CONTROLLING THE OIL INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA AFTER THE WAR AND YORUBA RELEGATED AND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THE NIGERDELTA OWNERS OF THE OIL  OIL INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA, BUT TODAY THE OWNERS OF THE OIL HAVE WAKEN UP. NIGER DELTA OIL WILL BE CONTROLLED BY NIGER DELTA SO YORUBA RUNING THINGS IN NNPC, SHELL, TEXACO, MOBIL, TOTAL AND ALL THE OIL BUSINESSES IN NIGERIA IS OVER BECAUSE OF YORUBA AND HAUSA CORRUPT CONTROL OF THE OIL INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA, BUT TODAY THE OWNERS ARE TAKING IT BACK GRADUALLY. EVERY DAY IS FOR THE THIEF BUT ONE DAY IS FOR THE OWNER


 CHECK THE EVIDENCE BELOW OF YORUBA DECLINE AND IGBOS ARE NOT YOUR PROBLEM. PLEASE FOCUS ON YOUR DECLINE.

EDUCATION STATISTICS THAT YORUBA IS DECLINGING THAT EVEN SOUTH SOUTH IS BEATING YORUBA

http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/feb/101.html  


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Oba (Dr.) Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi, CFR, the Alaafin of Oyo on the yoruba problems and lacking in some areas.
Why I took on Ooni of Ife – Alaafin of Oyo
Saturday, April 24, 2010  Vanguard Newspaper
"QUOTE" At a time there were moves to reconcile and fuse the Afenifere and the Council of Elders (YCE). The two blocks are made of eminent Yoruba leaders capable of speaking for the Yoruba at anytime. But they cannot achieve much as long as they are not talking with one voice
Take for example, there is no forum of traditional rulers like emirs and governors of the northern states just as there is none between Igbo traditional rulers and governors of the south east. Rather than that, the traditional rulers operate through their socio-political pressure groups like the Arewa Consultative Forum and the Ohaneze."UNQUOTE

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DAILY TRUST
Bankole and the Yoruba agenda
Written by Omoniyi Ologunebi  
Tuesday, 06 April 2010 22:26

“The Yoruba race has been relegated to the background in areas where it was a pioneer and excelled”. That was Dimeji Bankole, the Speaker of House of Representatives and the highest ranking Yoruba political office holder at the inauguration of the Board of Trustees and the Governing Council of Yoruba Academy in Ibadan recently. As reported in several dailies, the federal legislator’s lamentation of the seeming decline of Yoruba was against the background of a continuing retrogression that has only accelerated under the current democratic dispensation.
Bankole had noted that in education, the Yoruba were already attending Oxford and Cambridge Universities long before other African dreamt of such and decried the situation where in the last ten years, Yoruba’s have lost critical grounds in areas where it once have a controlling influence like the banking, media and security sectors." UNQUOTE

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GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER OF FRIDAY JANUARY 01 2010
Friday, January 01, 2010 
  
CONTROLLED BY YORUBA  PEOPLE OUR   
Nigeria's capital market records world's worst performing index in 2009
By Femi Adekoya
"The All-Share Index on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) ended the year yesterday with 20,827.17 points, making it the worst performing equity index worldwide, despite a bullish rally on the New Year eve.
The assessment was contained in a Bloomberg report, which reviewed 91 largest indexes across the globe.

At a time when other economies were recovering from the global economic downturn, the Nigerian capital market was still struggling within the crisis.
Although, a lot of reasons have been attributed to the slow pace of the nation's capital market's growth, prominent ones among the events that almost dragged the economy to its knees included the fall in the global oil prices, the effects of the just concluded audit in the banking industry by the Central Bank of Nigeria, declining rate of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) in the country, sagging confidence of investors in the capital market, systemic failure on the part of regulators and wrong fundamentals presented by some listed equities on the Exchange." unquote

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 YORUBAS AS FOOTBALLER BEING KICKED AROUND AND MIGHTY FALLENThursday, April 29, 2010

DAILY INDEPENDENT
04/29/2010
Yoruba as football
By Tunji Ismail
A football is an inflated piece of rubber or leather that is pushed around by being kicked by fun seekers otherwise called footballers. The fact of a football is that it goes in the direction decided by the kicker and sustains its flight in the air only to the extent of the energy devoted to it by the kicker. The kicker can push it right, left, upwards or make it stand still on the ground. In football the kicker is supreme advertisement

Hubert Ogunde, that great Yoruba philosopher, dramatist, poet and singer, conjured the appropriate imagery in his song 'Yoruba Ronu'. He said, "Yoruba so ra won di bolu f'araiye gba, to ba gba won s'oke won tun gba won si isale"; the Yoruba have become the football of the country, the kickers kick them up and down at will. That was about 50 years ago. How much of Ogunde's observation have changed? Have the Yoruba become kickers instead of the ball that is kicked?
Since the early sixties when this great man of Yoruba culture made his observations, the Yoruba have occupied the presidential chair twice, regrettably by the same man. Olusegun Obasanjo was military president from 1976 to 1979 and civilian president from 1999 to 2007. In both instances he was a ball that was kicked up. He did not become president on either occasion by any deliberate strategy or manipulation by the Yoruba. In his first coming, Theophilus Danjuma is popularly regarded as the mastermind of his ascension to the seat of power. Danjuma and the northern military establishment chose for their own strategic reasons to install a Yoruba as Head of State in 1976 after the death of Murtala Muhammed not to give an impression of oppressing other regions in the power game. The Hausa/Fulani of course held on to effective power through a combination of Shehu Yar'Adua as Chief of General Staff and Danjuma as Chief of Army Staff. The Hausa/Fulani had kicked the Yoruba football up.
In 1998, when Sani Abacha and Moshood Abiola died, it was obvious that the Yoruba had been wounded by the annulment of the 1993 election that Abiola won and his death in detention. Again the Hausa/Fulani kicked up the Yoruba ball by inviting Obasanjo to take the presidential chair. Obasanjo did not become President by any Yoruba deliberateness, rather by the deliberateness of others who wanted to keep the Yoruba quiet and in tow. He was released from prison and offered the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party. The Yoruba presidential candidate lost in all the Yoruba states, but the kickers of the Yoruba football kicked him into Aso Rock.
The truth is that these Obasanjo presidencies were not Yoruba opportunities and it is not surprising that the Yoruba have very little advantage to show for both. Obasanjo himself is not keen to be identified as a Yoruba leader, he prefers the national and international turfs. Identifying too strongly with Yoruba interest will diminish him in his quest for international dominance. The Yoruba are thereby stranded with no leader of serious political clout to muscle in for them in the myriad of political and economic interests in the country. Pray, would Lamido Sanusi have gone ahead to cripple financial activities in the country through the manner in which the reforms in the five supposedly ailing banks was done, if there was a strong Yoruba political voice in Abuja, backed by the people, who could have exercised the Yoruba clout to call for moderation in Sanusi's crusade? The truth is that many Yoruba businesses are today in shambles because the banks are no longer lending; no thanks to Sanusi. The Yoruba are the greatest beneficiaries of bank facilities in building businesses. Today government policy has effectively crippled that avenue that will have dire consequences for the Yoruba nation and no voice can be heard on its behalf. The Yoruba foot ball has been kicked down.
Look at the Presidential Advisory Committee set up by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, in a 26-man body, there are only three maybe four Yoruba people, depending on the way you look at it. Mr Fola Adeola, Mr Kase Lawal, Mrs Mobola Johnson and Dr (Mrs) Sally Bolujoko. Some argue that there are actually three and a half Yoruba people there. Four out of 26 cannot be equity to the Yoruba people. But beyond the numbers, look at how someone has cleverly liquidated the Yoruba in this matter. With all respect to the Yoruba members of this body that is expected to be the think tank of government in the next 12 months, all members are not equal. Who is the Yoruba man of political stature in the group? Horse-trading is the word in groups like this and some regions are loaded with those who are practised in such trade.
The North has people like Theophilus Danjuma, Alhaji MD Yussuf former Inspector General of Police, Justice Alfa Belgore former Chief Justice, Dr Bamaga Tukur former Governor former minister etc, Alhaji Ismaila Isa former President Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria and billionaire businessman. The Eastern parts of the country is represented by the likes of Emeka Anyaoku former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Professor Ben Nwabueze foremost constitutional lawyer, Ambassador Preware ambassador plenipotentiary with wide political experience, Hon Chibudom Nwuche former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Kanu Agabi former Attorney-General of the federation. Did someone deliberately make the choices to ensure that the Yoruba representation is sufficiently weak to be politically intimidated?
These are the things that happen to a people who do not have visible political leaders. Chief Obafemi Awolowo combined the political and cultural leadership of the Yoruba. He won many battles for his people. Today there are cultural leaders for the Yoruba but there is no visible political leadership. The turf is vacant and the Yoruba nation is the poorer for it. Wanted urgently, a strong political leadership for the Yoruba. Not of pretenders and profit seekers but of those that are committed to ensuring equity to the Yoruba race in matters of national concern.
Ismail, an industrialist, lives in Ajuwon Ouarters, Ibadan, Oyo State.
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Source: UNDP, Human Development Report: Nigeria, 1996, pp.83
       '   It is clear that, on the whole, the conditions of life in Nigeria are very low indeed. With an overall Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.400, Nigeria ranked 137 out of a total of 174 countries in the world in 1993.4 However, low as the overall national HDI is, the HDI for most of the Northern States is still much lower than those for the rest of the country. If we take life expectancy at birth, we can see that whereas it is 61.4 years in Lagos and 60 years in Imo, it is as low as 36.6 years in Kaduna, 36.7 years in Bauchi and 37 years in Borno. In terms of adult literacy, the picture is even worse. Whereas nearly 76% of adults in Imo were literate in 1993, only 2.7% of adults in Sokoto and 10% in Borno were so categorised. The figures for Kano (12.1%) Niger (16), Gongola (26%), Benue (27), were equally very low. When we consider the other components of the HDI index such as real GDP per Capita, mean years of school and educational attainment, we shall see that, as the UNDP observed in 1997, the regional disparities in Nigeria are among the worst in the world. Observed the UNDP:
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Table 8: Nigeria: Selected Health indicators by Region Region
Prenatal care
Delivery in modern health facility
Vaccination
Infant mortality
Under-five mortality
Under-five stunted
Diarrhea prevalence
Northaast
45.3
10.4
15.9
87.7
214.6
51.9
23.9
Northwest
47.6
9.7
17.7
109.8
244.4
50.4
25.7
Southeast
80.4
46.3
43.3
82.7
143.7
36.6
12.2
Southwest
92.3
63.6
45.3
84.6
167.2
35.6
8.7
Nigeria
65.2
30.9
29.6
91.4
191.0
43.1
17.7

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The Grim Realities: Nutrition, Food and Health
        Nutrition is one of the most basic indices of human development, because it determines, to a large extent, whether a human being lives or die. Well-nourished children, for instance, are less prone to what doctors refer to as the incidence of 'morbidity' and 'mortality'. Morbidity means the incidence of illness or the number of diseased persons recorded in a given population. Mortality , on the other hand, in its most general sense, refers to the fact of being mortal, i.e., subject to death. In other words, mortality can be used to indicate the frequency of death in a population.
        It is generally agreed that adequate nutrition prevents frequent disease attacks and leads to good health and high labour productivity. Nutritionists say that, although all segments of the population require adequate nutrition in order to function properly, the nutritional status of mothers and children is more crucial, because they are the two groups most vulnerable to malnutrition. Amongst children, there are three levels of malnutrition. The first is "stunting," which means "a failure to grow adequately in height in relation to age." The second stage is "wasting," which is defined as "the inability to gain weight in relation to height." Experts say that wasting is an indication of "acute under- nutrition." The third level of malnutrition is "under-weight", i.e., "the inability to gain weight in relation to age." This malnutrition level is said to indicate chronic and acute under-nutrition.l Table 1 compares the nutritional status of Nigerian children in the four geographical regions of the country.
Table 1: Percentage of Under-Five Children in Nigeria Classified as Under-Nourished According to Different Indices of Nutritional Status, 1990 and 1993
1990 (NDHS)                                   
 
1993 (UNICEF FOCUS STATUS) 
Region
Stunting
Wasting
Under-weight %
Stunting
Wasting
Under-weight %
Northeast
51.9
11.3
44.6
53.4
13.8
30.9
Northwest
50.4
12.1
43.8
51.4
9.7
26.3
Southeast
36.6
7.6
29.6
51.3
9.2
23.8
Southwest
35.6
5.5
26.9
49.1
11.6
31.7
National
43.1
9.1
35.7
52.3
10.9
28.3

Adapted from Federal Office of Statistics, Socio-economic Profile of Nigeria, 1996, p.72 table 6.2

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The Grim Realities: Education

        In its broadest sense, education is both a goal of development in itself, as well as a means for achieving better health, higher level productivity, rapid growth in GDP, greater social integration and political participation. Indeed, no society can hope to enjoy the benefits of modem technology without educating at least the great majol1ty of its citizens. Where the vast majority of the population is illiterate, the consequences for society are very grave. For one, the majority of the youth will be unable to either read or write, thus also unable to communicate effectively with themselves as well as with other citizens in other communities. Secondly, without education, the majority of the population will lack the technical, professional and managerial skills for both salaried as well as self-employment. Thirdly, without education, members of the society will lack the people who are intellectually prepared to lead the community confidently into the future.
         If we take adult literacy, it is obvious from table 5 above that the Northern States are the least prepared. For, whereas nearly 76% of adults in Imo were literate in 1993, only 2.7% of adults in Sokoto and 10% in Borno were so categorised. The figures for Kano (12.1%) Niger (16), Gongola (26%), Benue (27), were equally dismally low. Similarly, if we look at the figures for Mean Years of Schooling, it can be seen that in Sokoto it was only 0.43; in Borno 0.55; in Kano 0.73; in Niger 1.(:)4 and in Kaduna 1.52. These figures contrast poorly with 4.00 Mean Years of Schooling for Bendel; 3.92 for Lagos; 3.84 for Rivers; 3.80 for Imo and 3.29 for Ondo.
        In terms of secondary education, thee situation in the Northern States is equally bad. Table 11 brings out this reality clearly. While there are 397 secondary schools in Edo State with a total enrolment of 212, 016 students out of which 113, 379 were females in 1995, Yobe State had a mere 21 schools enrolling 12, 726 students, of which only 2,882 were females. Niger State, with a total population in 1991 of 2,021,581 people out of which 1,169,115 were females, had only 175 secondary schools enrolling 117,397. As at 1995, only 38,261, 01; 32.6% of students enrolled, were females. Yet, the state government recently announced its intention to even reduce the number of these schools. When we look at Sokoto, out of which Zamfara State was carved out, it had only 87 secondary schools enrolling 65, 466 students in 1995. Of this figure, only a mere 11,570 were female. In other words, only 17.7% of students enrolled were females. That these enrolment figures for the Northern States are very low even by Nigerian standards, can be seen i11 the fact that, of the 4,448, 991 total secondly school enrolment in the country, only 1, 417,945 or 31.87%, were enrolled in schools in the Northern States; and of the 2,094,276 girls enrolled in 1995, only 522,081 or 24.92%, were in schools located in the Northern States

Table 11: National Summary of Secondary School Enrolment By State 1995
State
Total No. of Schools
Total Enrollment
Total Female Enrollment
Total No. of Teachers
Total No. of Classrooms
Abia
208
141,806
78,268
3,891
3,729
Adamawa
122
58,275
21,681
1,884
1,340
Akwa-Ibom
261
162,722
82,391
5,933
3,832
Anambra
294
155,293
92,640
7,447
4,032
Bauchi/Gombe
134
97,933
36,008
3,794
1,981
Benue
290
153,326
51,088
4,690
3,566
Borno
71
74,895
33,725
2,537
1,584
Cross River
119
91,201
44,384
2,531
2,225
Delta
301
244,376
125,448
7,965
7,544
Edo
397
212,016
113,379
7,369
5,751
Enugu
242
131,667
78,444
6,021
3,688
Imo
320
186,076
115,707
8,751
5,792
Jigawa
69
24,033
8,585
1,162
694
Kaduna
173
136,055
58,056
5,750
3,010
Kano
230
104,971
40,803
3,957
2,539
Katsina
105
59,167
16,562
2,162
1,281
Kebbi
55
26,934
5,874
1,110
612
Kogi
200
110,900
45,271
4,025
2,503
Kwara
237
116,697
54,061
5,371
2,876
Lagos
358
588,154
304,438
17,527
11,289
Niger
175
117,397
38,261
3,998
4,316
Ogun
232
194,361
980,868
6,305
4,396
Ondo
307
174,088
86,637
7,511
5,293
Osun
334
21,070
99,301
8,271
5,770
Oyo
337
324,727
155,443
9,561
7,255
Plateau
328
166,581
65,900
5,557
3,789
River
339
213,842
101,030
6,673
4,640
Sokoto
87
65,466
11,570
1,735
1,369
Taraba
96
49,641
13,104
1,567
1,087
Yobe
21
12,726
2,882
476
304
F.C.T.
36
42,948
18,650
2,671
810
Total
6,429
4,448,991
2,094,276
158,122
108,905

Source: Annual Abstract of Statistics 1997 Edition, Federal Office of Statistics, Abuja, Table 132, P.183
1. Federal Office of Statistics, Socio- Economic Profile of Nigeria, 1996, Abuja, 1997. 2. Federal Office of Statistics, Nigeria: Demographic and Health Survey, 1990.
3. Federal Office of Statistics, Annual Abstract of Statistics 1997.
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Ikechukwu AgborTuesday, February 10, 2009
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