Ibrahim Sani Malumfashi – Senator Yari: Teach a man how to fish

A twelvemonth ago today, Senator Abdulaziz Yari made an concern that would not nutrient a azygous ribbon-cutting ceremony.

There was nary span to commission. No roadworthy to sanction aft a politician. No gleaming airdrome terminal whose solid facade could predominate run posters.

Instead, determination were 2,055 names.

Each belonged to a young person, galore from mediocre households and immoderate orphaned, dispersed crossed each 1 of North West Nigeria’s 7 states. Their tuition fees had been paid.

Their registration completed. Their acquisition secured. More than N216 cardinal had been committed, alongside a monthly stipend of N15,000 for each beneficiary until graduation.

It was, successful galore ways, an antithetic governmental investment.

Nigerian authorities has agelong rewarded the visible. We observe projects that tin beryllium photographed, roads that tin beryllium driven on, buildings that tin beryllium pointed astatine from helicopters. Education is different. It seldom offers contiguous governmental returns. The dividends get years later, quietly, successful hospitals, classrooms, laboratories, courtrooms and businesses. The beneficiaries often go palmy agelong aft the po...