The Future Of The North Will Be Built In Boardrooms, Not Ballot Boxes -By Shettima Hayerma

Perhaps the most profound transformation required is psychological rather than economic. No society consistently produces globally competitive entrepreneurs while simultaneously treating politics as the highest expression of achievement. Nations that transformed themselves economically did so because they elevated inventors, scientists, industrialists, manufacturers, investors, engineers, and innovators to positions of national admiration alongside political leaders. Northern Nigeria must gradually undergo a similar cultural shift.