The Federal Government has said that the present education
backwardness being witnessed in the northern part of the country was caused by
people of the region.
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu made the
assertion during a public presentation of Core Curriculum Minimum Academic
Standards (CCMAS) Book 1 series for Nigerian universities in the nation’s
capital.
Adamu, who commended the National Universities Commission,
NUC for its drive in making sure that more private universities spring up in
Nigeria, said the effort is paying off in the northern part of the country.
“The North is in self-imposed educational backwardness because the interest of the North is Islam, and Islam is the greatest promulgator of knowledge.
“In 859 AD, one Fatima Al-Fihri (sic), a woman-Muslim woman
established the first university in the world, at the time, the Italian
universities, Oxford, Cambridge universities had not started, the first
university was still existing there, it is now in Morocco.
“And about 100 years after that one, another university was
established, the second university in the world before the universities of
Europe, in Cairo and just like the first one, this university was established
by a Muslim woman, Fatimatu Zahara (sic).
“So the first two universities in the world were established
by Muslim women and here people are using Islam to keep women at home. I think
it does not make sense,” the minister said.
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