Arewa Research & Development Project M sletter 1 Maiden Edition Vo I ~ No....: 1 March 2o13 .. ' • i I t l '4 , , I • 1 • \l r 1 • I • ~ 4 1 .. .,. ' t ' 1: it t lf' . Re$1~ r 4Setl Pre$8 · ' ·Pf\ ~ · ; I!'.~: l;; ;! ~ dil!i!i I!, j j); lliilliiiilllllllllllll jj II ! • • AGRICULTURE ~. EDUCATION • H EALirf~ ~ ;. ENERGY • MINERAL!J RESOURCES I ',; i • • SKILL ACQUISITION & PROMOTION OF SCIENCE & TEChtNOLOGY ---~·· fl_'p' ' I . r . ~~r·'t:l EDITORIAL . ' ----taoleofcontents---- Editor ~ in - Ch i ef 1. From the Editior-in-Chief ................ ·_. ___ . _. 2 Dr. Kabiru S. Chafe Executive Assistant 2. Mission and Vision of ARDP. ... _. __ .. _... _....... _ 2 Mal. Usman Suleiman 3. Address by Prof. Abdulla hi Mustapha Vice Chancellor, A.B.U, Zaria __ . _. _....... _.... _.... 4 EDITORIAL BOARD Dr. Usman Bugaje 4. Address by the Chief Host, His Excellency Chairman Late Governor Patrick I. Yakowa, CON_ .•••• • .... _ .• _ • . 6 Dr. Yima Sen Member 5. Our Wealth of Mineral Resources Prof. Abdullahi M. Ashafa Member by Prof. Ibrahim Garba ...... .. _.... ___ . 8 Prof. Nuhu Obaje 6. Politics and Security in the North Member By Prof. Kyari Mohammed .. _. _..... _.... __ . _____ 11 Hajiya Rabi Adamu Eshak Member 7. Energy Sources & Sustainable Development of the North .. By Prof. E.J. Bala & Dr. G.Y. Pam ....... _. _. ______ 13 Mal. Isa Modibbo Member 8. Universal Basic Education in Northern Nigeria Mr. G.S. Pwul, SAN By Prof. Gidado Tahir. ........ _. 16 Member 9. Security, Politics & Economy of the North By Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed_ . _. _.. _... _. _.. _. _.. 27 All Enquires: 10. The North and the Nigerian Federation By Dr. Junaid Muhammad............ __ .. _... __ . 30 11. Health and Human Development Perspectives C/o Arewa House By Dr. Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, mni. .••..•..•.•.. _ ..... 33 Centre for Historical Docum entation and Research, Ahmad u Bello University, 12. Strategies to Drive the Agricultural Sector of the North No. 1 Rabah Road, Kaduna, By Prof. Sadiq Z. Abubakar: _. _. __ ........... __ . 37 Kaduna State - Nigeria 13. The Communique _________ . __ .. ___ .. ___ ....... 43 GSM (Text Only) 08027865025 email: [email protected] From The Editor-in-Chief MISSION AND VISION OF THE ARDP ur mission at the Arewa House - Centre for Historical Documentation and Research­ he last dozen years of democracy in Nigeria Ahmadu Bello University, Kaduna is to 0 have been particularly challenging. It not serve as a research-based reference point for the only occasioned the erosion (some would preservation and generation of new knowledge that T would be the catalyst for social, political, economic say collapse) of values and institutions that had and cultural transformation of Northern Nigeria in defined state and society, but also, and more . particular and the Nigerian nation in general. graphically, it has brought in its trail unprecedented corruption and bad governance, driving the Since its establishment in 1970, Arewa House has country to the brink. In the last few years, the developed Library and Archival collections perhaps Nigerian State has been in the throes of redefining seconds to none by any comparable research centre itself in the process of which many of the old thorny in Nigeria. It has collected thousands of ancient issues of nation-building have been exhumed. manuscripts and documents, organized international and national conferences on regional, national and Understandably, the North has been at the centre global topical issues. of these debates and many Northern politicians and personalities have attempted to respond. In 2012, the Arewa Research and 'Development These responses, however, have not been Project (ARDP) was established under its auspices anchored to veritable Northern institutions, which that has now founded ARDP Newsletter as a vehicle could harness the various efforts and ensure for disseminating knowledge-based information to continuity. Consequently, a group of about thirty the public. The aggregate objective is to aid the academics drawn from the Universities and peoples of the Northern part of the country with the scientific information that would assist them in being Independent Research Organizations across the positive change agents to their respective North came together and pioneered Arewa communities. Research and Development Project (ARDP) under the auspices of Arewa House - Centre for Historical 4 Therefore the vision of the ARDP Newsletter is to be Research and Documentation, Ahmadu Bello the forum by which members of the projed and University. other stakeholders would interact to translate The project seeks to provide a research-based cutting-edge knowledge into concrete political and content to the raging debate and to reposition socio-economic programs for the overall progress and development of the North and Nigeria. Northern Nigeria in positive terms as land of agriculture, of mineral resources, of alternative The ARDP Newsletter will be published at least bi­ sources of energy, of knowledge and stability. The monthly and will be circulated as complimentary to northern part of the country has always been a ~ all identified stakeholders by post. Readers are thus positive factor in the unity, stability and encouraged, indeed implored, to make the widest development of the country, far from the possible use of the knowledge and information opportunistic depiction as. parasitic by uninformed, contained in it. Criticism and contributions on all materials are highly solicited by all. To make the myopic and mischievous 'southern press. Since the North and Nigeria far better than we found it is a unfortunate disbandment of ICSA in 1975, there collective responsibility. has been intellectual vacuum for the . required strategic thinking to conceive and nurture the political, economic and social transformation of Northern Nigeria. This is what the Project under Dr. Kabiru S. Chafe Arewa House intends to be preoccupied with. The ~ Q'I' Arewa House ~ "' ~ ---~' ~.:.:~__.,q;::._:'~G:£!...~G~~ ~~-~~;;;;~~~~~:,,-~~ .'":,_ -~ -~ - - -- - - - -· - - -- ~ -: ) -~~---·--- - -- - - -- - ------ ~- -- - A- p Project is essentially non-partisan, non-ethnic platform and common agenda, but more and non-religious. It is not against other parts of importantly succeeded in bringing about a the country. Rather it sees the progress of the strategic alliance _and synergy with the National northern part of the country as indispensable for Assembly, an arm of government vested with the progress of the totality of Nigeria. enormous powers and clout, which can be The Project conducted the Conference on "The harnessed for the progress of th_e North, as well North and Strategies for Sustainable as the rest of the country. We clearly don't have Development" on the 5th and 6th of December all t he time in the world, it is important that t his 2012 at Arewa House, Kaduna. This Conference drew its participants from across all the relevant opportunity is seized and put to the best use and major stakeholders from all the Northern States. in good time too. The North, as the history of this The Conference was not simply another 'media country adequately demonstrates, has always ., •. • 1-· . ...~ • 1 event' but a Northern 'corporate.scientific fo~1,Jlil • kept . this . country tog~th~r often ,at gn~at ... ., .. ... ~ . _. ' -- . ~ . ... :. .,: . 1 . ' . .... -l .... ~ that thoroughly examine .~ . thlE' _, maJ~ _ r :- _,.; ~ sacr:jfices, . histo~y is ct:illing~ on. us on_(:e ,agai.n tp ·." . , ~ontemporary chall~nges faci"n{the reg1~n - · an?;·~ : pro ~ i5:l~ __ tha~ le~pershi. ~)n? . ~a~\/ag~ ~,cwr . ~~Iv . -. ~ its peoples and provided the needed framewoFk · . -'w· ·- - -f . .·. .· .. · ff .-..i· --· '.:I: - · . for the strategic thinking a·nd ~ ractical p ·~og(a ~ ~-, - ~ ' ; -COt,J!1_tf¥· - ~m~ st not a11 ;yYe c~not a.}?• _uJo,ai 1;.:· : ·, ·· ··• . r ~ ~. Goctfo "f bid~efaiL '\, . •. - ·· - .. ·~ :~- . ~ .. .:~ ~: to squarely address these challenges. · · -· · · · · · · Ar ewa ljouse~ whe~e this current effort is . • Attendance and participation ir-i . ,the ~ CoQ.ferfffTC~ .- - , . · . ·· .,. - . · '"" . · · ., ~ , . was strictly by invitation to ~; i - iow. .f6r thorough, ~ - . - ,. : ~ delib>~~~elyJqtat'.ed,wa~ · cr.~~te.(i:pre2iselvto'P,1 ~y~·: .{ - ,,~_ c •. •, . ' . : · I • '. · . tfi1$ fOle .. l(is at once an acaciemic institutibri·and ~ , · , . positive and fruitful discussions ~ PartJc;i,p~n'l:s _.. , •· ., • · . - ~ · · · / : · . -. · • ·. · .. ' . asymool ofow core v~rues; pf'courage, integrity;.. ,, were drawn_from among the p ·oli~lc:al dass; . P.u~lic · · . · ,_.. , ~ . • · _. , ..,_ - . · - -..·. · .... - and -private sectors, the· academia, ·the .. v·au~h, .: . probity;_ sacr_ ifi~e, fairness ande·quity. Ho4singthe , ·. house a·1;1·a·office__ of the -g"i:ea.t 'sardauna a~d . the .. ·.· women groups, faith-based organizati~ons, ··as , ;. F well ' as . from relevant qpinio ;~ a"nd ~o~m~~ity ~ ·: arcihfv.es.tnat kee'ps ·in -store tj1e records of our . .. leaders across all parts of Northern Nigeria:, · , · gYeatn~ss; ·- ~rewa Halls~ .. is . th~rr= to inspir~, ?·ur At this meeting academics and experts»iii _the leaders, provide the scale as well as the stan~ard · different fields made presentations providing the- ·. ..to measure _our p(ogress and guide our steps, alternative sustainable options forthe North. The especially at these difficult time_s. Arew'(l House idea was not only to substantiate and do~umenf has:~ - .historic duty to harmonize and create ~ the North's competitive advantages .but~ als0 .. · unified