Education as common Northern responsibility: From 19 separate efforts to 1 Northern compact (2), by Usman Sarki

The article argues that Northern Nigeria's education emergency is too profound and interconnected to be addressed through nineteen separate state programmes alone. It cites the historical experience of the Interim Common Services Agency (ICSA), which showed that successor states of the former Northern Region once recognised that certain interests and services were better delivered collectively. The piece states that the challenge is not to recreate ICSA but to rediscover its philosophy and apply it to twenty-first-century realities. It is the second part of a series proposing a single Northern compact on education.

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