• Kano monarch makes case for girl-child education
Even if his words land on skins and ruffles temperaments like medieval battle spears, The Emir of Kano, HRH Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has spoken the truth and it will have to be swallowed by the northern elite. Recently, Sanusi urged wealthy Muslims in the north to stop building mosques and instead divert the resources to educating their girls. According to him “I’m just tired of people coming to me to say I want to build a new mosque. You know, we keep building mosques and our daughters are illiterates.
So, my appeal is that if you really want to help Kano, don’t come to me with a request to build a N300m mosque because I have enough mosques everywhere. And if I don’t have a mosque, I’ll build it myself. If you really want to help, go and educate a girl child in the village.”
