- An elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai, has urged northerners stop grumbling over their low socio-economic status and be creative in developing the north
- Yakasai said the north is blessed with natural resources and population that can exploit the resources for the benefit of all
- He urged leaders in public and private sectors to invest in modular power generation to create an enabling condition for the transformation of the north from an agrarian economy into industrial one
An elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai, on Thursday, December 28, implored northerners to be creative instead of grumbling over their low socio-economic status.
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NAIJ.com gathered that Yakasai emphasised in an interview with Vanguard that northerners should think out of the box for the purpose of developing the north.
He said: “Grumbling doesn’t take anybody anywhere, what carry people forward is creative ideas.
“Muting concrete ideas that can take the north and northerners forward, ideas that can lead the north to turn its attention to the improvement and modernisation of agriculture in the region need to be exploited for the benefit of northerners.
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He added: “Ideas that can make our federal and state governments introduce irrigation farming, which can expand the production capacity of our agricultural produce manifold within a comparatively short period of time and create job opportunities for our teaming population and empower them economically, thereby taking them out of poverty on a permanent basis.
“Our leaders in public and private sectors should invest in modular power generation to create an enabling condition for the transformation of the north from an agrarian economy into industrial one.
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“It is one of the trajectories to find a permanent solution to our manifold problems as northerners. God has blessed the north with land and natural resources as well as the population that can exploit the resources for the benefit of all.”
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had previously reported that the federal executive council on Wednesday, May 3, approved $250 million soft loan for the development of the northeast region of Nigerian which has been ravaged by insurgency.
The council approved a soft loan of $150 million from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and $100 million from African Development Finance (ADF) for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI).
Also a grant of five million Euro was approved to finance an Inclusive Basic Service Delivery and Livelihood Empowerment Integrated Programme in five different states in the region.
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Source: Naija.ng