Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has issued a stark warning regarding the catastrophic levels of insecurity and bloodshed in northern Nigeria, declaring the situation has placed the region under a “spiritual curse.” He emphasized that the crisis must be immediately treated as a national emergency to prevent the stalling of Nigeria’s overall development.
Dogara made the forceful comments on Tuesday during a panel session at the Nigeria Investment and Industrialisation Summit (NNIIS) 2025, organized by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) in Abuja.
Scale of Bloodshed Points to a “Curse”
The former Speaker lamented that the level of violence—including relentless killings, banditry, and abductions—has transcended ordinary socio-political concerns.
“With the kind of bloodletting we are witnessing in the North, if you are a person of faith, you will know that we are operating under a curse because it is human blood,” Dogara stated.
He warned that the extreme insecurity and poverty in the region pose an existential threat to the entire country: “The development of northern Nigeria is not a regional prerogative. It must be seen as a national emergency. If the vast number of people we have in the North are not developed, Nigeria is going nowhere.”
Call for Self-Reliance and Radical Action
Dogara urged northern leaders and citizens to abandon any culture of dependence on external solutions and instead commit to radical, transformative self-reliance.
“We need to depart from doing business as usual and embrace radical, transformative action. Help is not coming from anywhere—we must take our destiny into our own hands,” he declared, calling on the North to seize control of its future to reverse the current downward spiral.
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