UNIVERSITY DEGREE IS OVERATED –BISHOP KUKAH

Too much emphasis on a university degree in a developing country like Nigeria signifies post-colonial mentality and a misplaced priority that the country must do away with if we are to get out of our current worrisome unemployment status, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah has observed.
The clergyman cum social commentator also stated that a good number of the universities in the West have hit gold in Nigeria because of the rising desperation for a university degree in the country.
Bishop Kukah, who lamented that a consumer country like Nigeria does not have to accord too much priority to university degrees, further observed that Nigerians should take a cue from their fellow countrymen, the Igbo, who have achieved a considerable degree of self-sufficiency as well as comfort arising from their entrepreneurial prowess and not necessarily university degrees.

KUKAH BLAMES NORTHERN ELITE FOR BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY

Warns FG against over dependence on military force
The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, yesterday accused the Northern elite of contributing to the emergence of the Bokom Haram insurgency by neglecting the ordinary people in their immediate environment for some years now.
He also warned the federal government against over dependence on the use of military force to tackle the insurgency, saying the strategy was capable of creating a hyper sense of importance in the military class, at the detriment of democratic leaders.
The cleric spoke at a lecture marking the 43rd convocation ceremony of the University of Nigeria (UNN), Nsukka, where the former deputy senate president, Chief Ken Nnamani, was chairman of the occasion.

KUKAH: FUTURE OF NORTH BLEAK WITHOUT EDUCATION

* Says oil may be irrelevant in few years

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, Tuesday said the discovery of abundant mineral resources in the north would not solve its problems, warning that the region would continue to have re-occurrence of Boko Haram insurgency if people do not acquire the needed education to be able to participate in the affairs that affect their lives.

He also urged the political leadership to stop wasteful spending of public resources, warning that the United States and Europe are now developing new oil and gas technology to render Nigerian oil redundant.

HOW JONATHAN GOT IT WRONG–KUKAH

Social critic and commentator, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan erred in the planned amnesty for the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Ladda’awatih wal-Jihad, also known as Boko Haram.

The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, who spoke exclusively with Daily Sun in Abuja, said the refusal of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to implement the report of the Justice Chukwudifu Oputa panel, led to what is today known as Boko Haram. He lambasted Obasanjo, saying his government was reckless.

Kukah said that Jonathan’s involvement of the military in resolving the crisis is endangering our democracy, declaring that it is also an admittance of incompetence.