Prominent northern leaders have blamed the scourge of out-of-school children on the failure of state and local governments to make sufficient investments in basic education. The leaders, who spoke in separate interviews with Sunday PUNCH, also identified indoctrination and insurgency as some of the factors responsible for the millions of out-of-school children in Nigeria particularly in the northern region. According …

Northern leaders have rejected a call by former governor of Zamfara State, Malam Yerima Sani, asking President Bola Tinubu to negotiate with terrorists and bandits in the country and grant them amnesty as it was done for Niger Delta militants by the late Umaru Yar’Adua’s administration. In their separate views, they argued that such negotiations will continue to fail because …