{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Mathematical 7","provider_url":"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7","title":"Boko haram and the Borno-5 - Mathematical 7","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lYD98ld1MS\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/boko-haram-and-the-borno-5\/\">Boko haram and the Borno-5<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/mathematical7.com\/m7\/boko-haram-and-the-borno-5\/embed\/#?secret=lYD98ld1MS\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Boko haram and the Borno-5&#8221; &#8212; Mathematical 7\" data-secret=\"lYD98ld1MS\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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I shall not tire of recounting it because of its significance. It is a powerful message for governments. It is a true-life story that took place when the current Vice-President of Nigeria was Governor of Borno State.   I visited him in Maiduguri, the State capital, at a time when the city was under the siege of Boko Haram. I went there to sell him the seeds of an idea, and to propose a test-run.   Boko Haram means \u2018Western Education is forbidden\u2019. Insurgents were on a rampage, trying to terminate any romance between the people, particularly the youths, and Western education and culture. Both were considered offensive to their culture and religion. Young boys and girls were being hounded and routed from schools, and their parents persecuted.   The kidnapping of \u2018the girls from their dormitory in a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, was the climax of an odyssey that generated a global outcry. It also fueled Nigeria\u2019s record of having the largest number and concentration of out-of-school children in the world. The figure is put conservatively at between 15 and 18 million Nigerian youths, mostly based in the North East of Nigeria, with Borno State as its epicenter!   Children were been forced to abandon schooling. They became ready tools for the devil\u2019s workshop, easy recruits into the army of insurgents and miscreants, pawns in the societal vices games, the oxygen of joblessness, hunger, poverty and disease.   I \u2018sold\u2019 to Mr. Keshim Shettima my humble idea that was already being tested for efficacy in a small \u2018laboratory\u2019 of learning that I had set up to address issues related to the eradication of hunger, poverty and disease through Sport. The goal was to provide young people a smooth and easier pathway into the lucrative global world of Sport, an eco-system that can impact and empower youths like no other human activity, and be deployed cleverly to reduce the physical and mental devastation of the people of Borno State.   My idea was interesting to Governor Shettima. He bought it. If it would help in the reduction of illiteracy, which is the mother of hunger, poverty, disease, juvenile delinquencies, joblessness, and so on, then, we are good to go.   It is a simple deduction. Boko Haram and Illiteracy were bedfellows. Tackling illiteracy means destroying one of the arteries of Boko Haram. That means increasing education in that society. It is a tough call. Sport must find an inroad into the mix.   To promote Sport and Education successfully became my strategy, a major component of my sponsoring-motivation for the establishment of a special institution that would become a litmus test for my theorem.   That was the vision that birthed the Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy, a place to test the efficacy of Sport as a tool that can fight illiteracy to a stand-still, amongst many other goals."}