By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor
IT is one of the great contradictions of present day Nigeria. On the eastern flank of Northern Nigeria, merchants of death fight to enthrone a philosophy to crush education under the aegis of Boko Haram, that is Education is sin.
On the other flank in the North-West, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State has heralded a contrary philosophy that compels compulsory education for all children that has been termed Boko Dole, that is Education is by force.
Governor Tambuwal started his crusade against illiteracy with the declaration of a state of emergency on education and the constitution of a technical committee charged with reversing the neglect of education.
In the wake of the emergency, Governor Tambuwal did the unusual by allocating a princely N34.5 billion of the 2016 state budget, the first prepared under his watch, to education. That amount represented 29 per cent of the total budget of the year, 2016.
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