Minna—Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, Wednesday, said the security situation in parts of the north had improved in recent times.
Aliyu, however, called on Nigerians to join hands to ensure that peace and tranquility reigned supreme in the region.
He made the remark when he received members of West African Post Graduate College of Pharmacy and the Arewa Transformation Support Initiative that visited him in Minna.
He said: “Things are calm now in the region, but we are not out of the woods yet. Everyone should work toward a permanent solution to the security situation in the north and the country”.
The governor suggested that governments should make it compulsory for Islamic and Christian religions to be taught in schools, to promote permanent peace in the north.
“If Boko Haram members are vast in the Islamic religion, they will not kill anybody because Islam says there is no compulsion in religion,” Aliyu said.
He added that ignorance and poverty were other causes of the crises in parts of the country, emphasising the need for parents to pay more attention to the education of their children.
The governor said there was a serious dysfunctional relationship between the government and the governed.
He said this called for the need for Nigerians to pray fervently for the country to have a “leadership that will move the country to greater heights”.
Earlier, the President of the initiative, Alhaji Mohammed Danjuma, said the group set up a data bank of unemployed youths in the north, which could be assessed to solve unemployment problems in the region.
