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By Musa Ubandawaki
SOKOTO—The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah; the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, and erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, warned of sedate dangers up for Nigeria, if urgent steps are not taken to tackle insecurity, disunity and the increasing colonisation crisis.
The trio spoke astatine the commissioning of the St. Bakhita ICT/CBT Centre, built by ineligible icon and philanthropist, Aare Afe Babalola, astatine the Catholic Secretariat, Aliyu Jodi Road, Sokoto.
Bishop Kukah, successful a passionate invited address, hailed Aare Babalola’s publication to education, describing the ICT task arsenic a bold involution that would assistance adjacent the integer disagreement and service arsenic a instrumentality for unity.
He said: “Our spot arsenic a federation lies successful our diversity. Through education, we tin alteration that diverseness into a blessing alternatively than a burden.”
The Sultan, successful his goodwill message, warned Nigerians not to let criminals to exploit spiritual and taste differences to disagreement the country.
Declaring that bandits are terrorists without religion oregon tribe, helium urged leaders to beforehand bid and acquisition arsenic weapons of nationalist survival.
He said: “God does not marque mistakes. He has brought america unneurotic arsenic 1 people, and we indispensable unrecorded successful bid and harmony portion seeking cognition to amended our society.”
Obasanjo, however, sounded the loudest alarm, informing that Nigeria’s aboriginal could beryllium grimmer than its contiguous if the rising fig of out-of-school children is ignored.
He painted a disturbing representation of implicit 25 cardinal children presently roaming the streets, predicting that their neglect could breed a deadlier insurgency than Boko Haram by 2050 erstwhile Nigeria’s colonisation is projected to surpass 400 million.
He said: “With implicit 25 cardinal children retired of schoolhouse today, the Boko Haram of 2050 volition beryllium acold much hard to handle. I don’t commune to beryllium live for the adjacent 25 years, but the Sultan and Bishop volition beryllium live to witnesser the catastrophe if thing is done.”
Governor Ahmad Aliyu of Sokoto State, represented by his Chief of Staff, Alhaji Aminu Dikko, announced that his medication would replicate ICT centres crossed the 3 senatorial districts.
He praised Aare Babalola and Bishop Kukah for their foresight, pledging continued concern successful education, younker empowerment and skills development.
The lawsuit attracted dignitaries crossed political, taste and spiritual lines, underscoring the unifying powerfulness of acquisition and exertion successful charting a caller way for Nigeria’s future.
The station Kukah, Sultan, Obasanjo rise alarm connected Nigeria’s future appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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