@SirJarus It does exist, club exposure and also knowledge. The world is now a global village, countries spend a lot in coaching and their staff, so i think knowledge transfer is also a factor.
The man is suffering from inferiority complex from his heart. Even if you are naming the project in your name why include the “GCFR” and “PRESIDENT “.?
@nze_Anambra Tinubu can not get 2.7 million votes in the SW. he had 492k in Oyo state in 2023, this time Seyi Makinde will be there,
Atiku will get more votes in NW/NE than what you projected. Tinubu will definitely win NC but not with 1.7 million votes. If Atiku is allowed to contest 😂😂😂
@AbubakarBala2@AhmadGanga Wallahy nima i heard a lot about what sultan has been doing behind the scenes, he even organized a meeting with all the who and who in Northern Nigeria and no Governor turned up, the Governors just don’t care…
@Realoilsheikh@Mrym_buhari Let us replace him first, we can start discussing our options with regards to security with the next president. If politicians know that they can be removed, they will sit up. We can’t reward mediocrity based on the context of not knowing the capabilities of the alternative.
Ba karamin sauyi ake samu ba a dunia a kwanakinnan. Kuma kamar yadda ake gani, sauye-sauye, walau na lumana ko tashin hankali dake wakana a nisan dunia suna iya shafar mu kai tsaye. Kamfanonuwan AI a Amurka, Turai da China suna ta samar da basirori daban daban masu tsaurin gaske. Wadannan AI ka iya sauya yadda rayuwa zata kasance nan da shekaru kadan. Bibiyan labarun fasaha ga matashi mai neman gina rayuwarsa a wannan karni wajibi ne. Ka da a barku a baya.
Cc @NetizensOfGombe
This is a piece from someone who knows the terrain and the history behind the group. People should read more, generalizations topics like these without proper knowledge are unhelpful.
Repeated claims like this show how little Nigerians know about their own country. There is enough scholarship on these issues to not make broad and widely debunked claims like this.
First: The claim that the almajiri system functions as a conveyor belt to terrorism and banditry is contested by the most rigorous scholarly work on the subject and there is the work of Dr. Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman @dj_kere whose doctoral research "The Men They Become": Northern Nigeria's Former Almajirai: Analysing Representational Discourses of Identity, Knowledge and Education (2018), involved years of fieldwork and direct engagement with former almajirai. Assuming I read her work correctly, she found that the mainstream representation of the system (which has been repeated in the tweet below) is only "one possible set of articulations and that alternative meanings exist." Other research she has done found no operational extension of say Boko Haram in almajiri Qur'anic schools, and that almajiris themselves "vehemently rejected any moves to join Boko Haram activities." @dj_kere has also argued that the almajiri system's deterioration, is a product of colonial disruption and post-colonial governance failure, not an inherent feature of Qur'anic education itself.
Even in the case of Boko Haram, where the almajiri connection is most often asserted, the evidence does not support a direct causal line. We have the work of @HannahHoechner for example. She has argued in this piece here (https://t.co/XuohhpnSfN) about this. In the article she mentions that "correlation is not proof of causation: That almajirai joined does not automatically mean that almajirci made them join." There is also the 2017 paper, "The Almajiri System and Insurgency in Northern Nigeria: A Reconstruction of the Existing Narratives for Policy Direction," where research shows that "the Almajiri system in itself does not radicalize the Almajirai cohort," but that decades of bad governance have produced a large, alienated, and economically destitute youth cohort who become targets for recruitment — a crucial distinction between vulnerability and causation.
Meanwhile, Boko Haram's founder, Mohammed Yusuf, was not himself a product of the street almajiri system: according to Hussain Zakaria (for example in the US Institute of Peace report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?", 2014), Yusuf had the equivalent of a graduate-level education, having studied theology at the University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, where he absorbed Salafi-jihadist ideology from transnational networks — not from classical Qur'anic schooling.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the conflation of Fulani banditry with the almajiri system is especially unsupported. There is ample research here. For example, in "The Other Insurgency: Northwest Nigeria's Worsening Bandit Crisis" (published in Security and Defence Quarterly 2021), the research establishes that that northwest banditry is driven by land-use conflict, Fulani pastoralist "grievances" (quotes mine- you can call it something else), climate-driven competition over grazing routes, and governance collapse — not by Qur'anic schooling of any kind.
Added to that, the Fulani ethnic militia phenomenon has its own distinct social base. If you read the War on the Rocks analysis by @jh_barnett and Murtala Rufai, they have noted that "the majority of bandits have shown little interest in adopting" jihadist ideology, with alleged cooperation between bandits and jihadists being "less meaningful than many observers assume." You can read that analysis here: https://t.co/YM22c3fPhn
As for Boko Haram's actual membership profile, the documentary record points in the opposite direction from the almajiri narrative. Again I urge people to read the USIP report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?" of 2014 which documents that as early as 2004, "students, especially in tertiary institutions in Borno and Yobe states, withdrew from school, tore up their certificates, and joined the group." This account is corroborated by Human Rights Watch in "They Set the Classrooms on Fire": Attacks on Education in Northeast Nigeria (2016), which records testimony of a local imam urging believers to destroy their educational documents, with university graduates complying publicly. @HannahHoechner's own work confirms that "some members of the group used to be university graduates who tore their university certificates at the beginning of the Boko Haram propaganda" — a fact that fundamentally complicates any simple narrative linking Islamic street education to the rise of the insurgency.
Please people, read, read, read. Especially at a time like this when people are angry and making broad claims.
@danazumi_ammar Exactly the reason why the should focus on their group of mis-governers and allow us to deal with our own, none of us is living in a paradise.
@Ziyad_yakubu Assuming the security gulped $15 Billion between 2010-2026, that is 16 years, Lagos alone gulped more than $12 billion in 3 years. Let us start comparing, how much was spent in development projects across each state ?
They are just louder. some of them haven’t even traveled away from their states.We travel and we know that every part of the country is misgoverned and under developed, I don’t even argue with them because i assume they are ignorant, it is good to set the records straight though.
I was in Akure last year for a burial ceremony. Trust me, Zaria Local Govt is more developed than Akure. They had their first Kilimanjaro Restaurant around that time, and the roads are as terrible asthe faces of these bigots. I went round the entire city in half a day, with the help of a colleague and I didn't see a single development in that state, when compared to states like Kano, Gombe, Bauchi, Kaduna. Until recently, Delta State that pockets what 5 states in the northern receives as FAAC every month is just a messy state with nothing to show of development. Thanks to the present governor, he is doing a lot. Is it Bayelsa or Edo? Yet, the North is pulling them back. One Osas is in Lagos singing the praises of the Lagos govt leaving behind his Edo suffering under-development.
@IU_Wakilii You forgot the Makinde Factor, he will deliver Oyo intact and Atiku will definitely get something from Osun. Also, Obi will get nothing less than 40% from lagos, so Tinubu will not have any advantage in the Southwest as you posited!