Arewa Development Support Initiative (ADSI), a non-governmental organisation, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to address the issues of girl-child and out-of-school children education, particularly in the country’s north.
In a statement to mark Eid-el Kabir, the group’s president, Khuraira Musa, also urged the federal government to find a long-term solution to the country’s farmers/herders crisis.
ADSI emphasised the importance of the federal government convening farmers and herders to discuss the next steps.
According to the NGO, “It is heartbreaking to see towns and villages deserted because of avoidable crises by groups that had always shared and lived together in peace for decades.
“It is also important that the government focuses on skills-acquisition to help provide jobs for the teeming youths. Having them skilled in trade will improve their livelihoods and ensure capacity is built and sustained in an economy where the private sector drives the growth desired”, she said.
The group also expressed its commitment to partner with the administration to rebuild the northern region and, ultimately, Nigeria as a whole through skills acquisition and education.
The group wished President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima successful tenure.
