I felt it was important to share this story in NIGARD. A beautiful example of what Nigeria should be benefitting from cultural and religious differences. God bless the young heroine in this story. It was posted by a friend of mine; Saadatu Hamma.
Richard Ali
Via Shittu Fowora, all true Northerners, read and share.
- Ra.
Friends,

... Just want to share this with you. This was aired on 25/3/2012 NTA Newsline.

A young lady, Ime Anwana, a Batch "A" corps member, was posted to serve in the NNPC depot in Niger State. She visited a friend serving at a local girls secondary secondary in the nearby village of Kaffin Koro and was told the school has no chemistry teacher.

Ime volunteered to use her free time on Friday evenings to teach chemistry to the students - free of charge. While teaching in the school she saw the sorry state of the student accommodation and took it upon upon herself to do something about it.

She raised the sum of 3.8 million naira and supervised the building of a student hostel equipped with 40 double bunk beds complete with mattresses.

One fateful day, while riding on a motorbike taxi (Okada) on the way to the project site she had an accident that killed the Okada rider and seriously injured her. She spent three weeks in a coma and was bed-ridden for three months.

On the NTA Newsline programme it was shown how the village of Kaffin Koro rolled out the drums to honour Miss Anwana for her work for them. The District Head of the village, Alhaji Abubakar Mamman gave her the chieftaincy title of Jekadiyan Kaffin Koro (Ambassador of Kaffin Koro) and also a piece of land in the village.

Ponder this:

1. Niger State, Ime's host state, is the home state of two former Presidents of the Federal Republic - Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar. Ironically (and sadly), one of them recently hosted a high-profile meeting in the same state to "discuss" the problem in the North. All they need is few minutes trip to Kaffin Koro and they will see the problem staring them in the eyes.

2. In the NTA Newsline report there was neither representation nor acknowledgement of Miss Anwana's work from - or - by her host, Niger State Government.

3. Paiko Local Government, under whose jurisdiction Kaffin Koro falls, has a Local Government Chairman, a State Assembly Representative, a National Assembly Representative and a Senator in Abuja. They all know (or should know) the state of that school long before Miss Anwana left her native Akwa Ibom State and arrived there. Don't you now think that the system is broken?

4. Miss Anwana's action throws a challenge not only to the Mandarins in the Northern political set up but also to young northerners closer to her age who have either silently acquiesced to the status quo or have been driven into the welcome arms of religious extremist due to the dearth of opportunities in the North.

If you are a reading this and you are a northerner - silently admit to yourself that Ime's action has shamed most of us. And then pledge to do whatever you can, no matter how little, to reverse the decline (moral, educational, social, economic) in your community.

Please feel free to share this - Via Gambo Danbello Hamza

A very BIG Shame indeed!
The people listed above who are supposed to hail her and make her efforts known to public will never do that. Know why? because that work is their official responsibilities so will be too ashamed to tell the public.

God bless you Ime Anwana. SHAME ON THE NORTHERN LEADERS

I am curious to know how she managed to raise that huge sum of money

It took a young lady to disgrace IBB, Abdusalam Abubakar and other norttherner leaders that have ruled this nation for years without absolutely nothing to show for it especially in the lives of the northerners. Shame! Shame! Shame!

lool

I will not make a comment.

No they are keen and concerned about 2015 to occupy aso rock and waste another 8years,loot and loot and loot until oil dry and the rest of Nigerians left with nothing.Heartless set of people posed as leaders.

May God help INnoson to do more

Ime Anwana(Jekadiyan Kaffin Koro ) I shall erase a space in my memory of one Northern leader to keep yours there.thank you!!!

IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FULANI/HAUSA/NORTH AND BOKO HARAM ? NON .SINCE FULANI/HAUSA/NORTH AND BOKO HARAM HAS SIMILARITIES ,THEN THIS CALLED FAMILY AFFAIRS = AGAPE LOVE #### FULANI/HAUSA/BOKO HARAM INTER BREEDS = BLOOD/DNA INTERTWINE = FULANI/HAUSA/BOKO FULANI HARAM = MONSTER .SS/SE HAVE MUCH TO BE AFRAID OF ,LET'S FACE THE REALITY YOU CAN NEVER ERASED DNA/BLOOD OF USMAN DAN FODIO IN FULANI/HAUSA/BOKO HARAM .ALL THEIR PLOT HAS BEEN WRITTEN BY USMAN DAN FODIO AND HANDED DOWN TO PRESENT ALMAJIRI'S TO CONTINUE WITH THEIR CRUSADE UNTIL IT IS COMPLETED . SS/SE THINK ,THINK ,THINK ,OUR SOCIAL STUDY TEACHER BACK IN A DAY USED TO TEACH HISTORIES OF USMAN DAN FODIO JIHAD ROUTE WITH HIGH LIGHTEN SENTENCES OF HAUSA/FULANI/USMAN DAN FODIO PLOT .THERE PLOT IS TO TAKE OVER SS/SE AND OCCUPY IT AND CONQUER IT TO FULL FILL JOURNEY OF UTHMAN DAN FODIO .THIS TEXT BOOK STILL EXIST IN PRESENT NIGERIA , I MARVELED AT THE WEAKNESS OF SS/SE NOT TO SEE ALL THIS COMING FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS . GOOD MORNING . GOOD MORNING .
MY MUSIC IS COMING

What her gesture shows is that power belongs to the youths,they know better than nigerian baby adults like ibb. All the youths need to do is seize power by taking control of things positively and relegate the aged waste pipes to the mud where they belong. Then we wont be here talking b.ullshiite about animals like tinubu,ibb,gej,obj,david mark and the rest of the thieves.

lol