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“To our political office holders whose children school abroad, how do you feel visiting your children abroad, taking pictures in their schools and posting online while ASUU is on strike?

 

“You're running a system that you don't believe in.

 

“Show me one Oyibo whose Child is schooling in Nigeria! E no dey touch wuna?

 

“And when you return, Nigerian youths will still gather and sing praises for wuna.” -Ahmed Musa, Super Eagles' Captain.

 

#musa #Naija

 

The twentieth century would continue to confound the Malthusian pessimists, most spectacularly in the 1960s in Asia. For two years in the mid-1960s, India seemed to be on the brink of mass famine. Crops were failing in a drought, and people were starving in growing numbers. Hunger had never been absent from the subcontinent for long, and memories of the great Bengal famine of 1943 were raw. With over 400 million people, the country was in the midst of an unprecedented population explosion. The government had put agriculture at the top of its agenda, but the state monopolies charged with finding new varieties of wheat and rice had nothing to offer. There was little new land to bring into cultivation.

To be continued

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