The North has become the image global media use when illustrating Nigeria’s poverty

 The North has become the image global media use when illustrating Nigeria’s poverty — and that didn’t happen by accident.

Decades of failed leadership in the region have helped cement Nigeria’s status as the “poverty capital of the world.”

The rise of extremism, banditry, and militant violence in the North has also turned Nigeria into one of the most dangerous countries for Christians and civilians in general.

Sultan of Sokoto, the reality is simple:

Your region’s political class allowed terror networks to grow, armed groups to spread, and radicalization to take root.

Now the entire nation carries the consequences.

Instead of driving education, innovation, and development, Northern leaders have often clung to outdated systems and that refusal to evolve is pulling the country backward.

Meanwhile, in the East, the Obi of Onitsha has called for the immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu,

insisting that justice must not be sacrificed for politics.