The region has been facing economic challenges and security threats, including Boko Haram insurgency and religious clashes. Lack of visionary leadership is identified as a major issue.
Over the years, the region has performed poorly in terms of economic indices with the recent multidimensional poverty index released by theThe region has also been battling divergent security challenges including the Boko Haram insurgency in the north-east, farmers-herders as well religious clashes in the north-central and banditry across the north-west. Thousands of people have been killed and or displaced in the crises that seem unending.
and a lack of sufficient manufacturing industries, northern Nigeria has been groaning in pain, as the fight for survival continues albeit in a difficult situation.“It’s the issue of leadership,” Baba-Bala Katsina, a social historian, told PREMIUM TIMES. Mr Katsina said the leaders of Northern Nigeria in recent decades have not been visionary like their predecessors. “The past leaders were far better in certain areas of leadership. The past leaders were leaders of vision, ideas and development plans. They grabbed power for the sake of the development of societ
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