Last week, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, stated what many of his northern elite have always known but have chosen to ignore, when he lamented that the present educational backwardness in the Northern region was caused by people of the region.

He spoke in Abuja at the public presentation of the Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) Book 1 series for universities and a book in his honour.

He said the North is in self-imposed educational backwardness because the interest of the North is Islam, and Islam is the greatest promulgator of knowledge.
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