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Jeremiad of Northern Nigeria
Thu Dec 31 2020
Since the flowering of portmanteau word ‘Niger Area to Nigeria’, by Flora Louise Shaw fondly called Lady Lugard, Northern enclave is a land of striking historicism, economy, scholarship and distinct linguistic background. North is like any other region in the global chronicle with pros and cons that require imperative revivalism.
It’s sad events of six decades of Nigeria’s sovereignty for a realm that produces the good, the bad and the ugly of 10 presidents out of 16 presidents in the history of the most populous black nation on earth. Hitherto, Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto and Samuel Akintola were killed brutally in 1966 military coup by the bigotry army.