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The Neglect Of History In Nigeria And Its Consequences In Nation Building

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"j5Y1V1wr" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><strong>By Usman Nuhu Kuta<&sol;strong><&sol;p><div class&equals;"EhzKEeKl" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Historian reproduces knowledge of the past&comma; and inspire Productivity&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>–Usman Nuhu<&sol;p><div class&equals;"O9lLeAEx" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;With knowledge of the past&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m equipped to conquer the challenges of the present and the future&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>–Usman Nuhu<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is no more news that History as a discipline has been neglected by our authorities and individuals as a result of little or no insights about its significance&period; The government &lpar;Nigerian government to be specific&rpar; does not only lack awareness about the contributions of history to youth empowerment and nation-building but also&comma; sees it as a threat because History as a discipline always breeds radicalism&period; While the government considers the study of history as a threat&comma; for some individuals&comma; it is claimed that &&num;8220&semi;History is an unprofessional discipline&&num;8221&semi;&period; Thus&comma; they deliberately try to discredit History as an academic discipline by rating Social Studies ahead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unfortunately&comma; they are less informed to know that&comma; Social Studies is not just a sub-discipline under History&comma; but also&comma; to study society is to study history&period; These individuals and the government are doomed of the past&comma; the present&comma; thus cannot predict the future&period; Obviously&comma; history is a continuous interaction and an unending dialogue between the contemporary historian and the facts of the past&period; Students of history seek to provide answers to questions and reasons for circumstances&colon; what&comma; how&comma; and why did a particular event occur&quest; His thinking and intellectual capacity&comma; as developed by History as a discipline&comma; is familiar with historical developments in all spheres of human life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2020&sol;06&sol;29&sol;history-of-royal-gunshots-in-kano-emirate&sol;">History of Royal Gunshots in Kano Emirate<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Similarly&comma; the study of history involves the explanation of important features of life which include&colon; economy&comma; politics&comma; law&comma; norms&comma; and values&comma; as well as cultures that shape and define our society&period; History provides individuals with sound knowledge of peoples&&num;8217&semi; prevailing ideas&comma; motives&comma; and circumstances&period; You can agree with me that&comma; although no discipline is an Island&comma; the study of history is indeed the &&num;8220&semi;cradle of knowledge&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Historian&comma; as specialist and educated about the events of the past&comma; finds it easier to predict the future&period; For these reasons&comma; the door is open to students of History to manipulate the knowledge of the past to their own advantage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Today&comma; no one can deny the fact that the world has developed in terms of Science and Technology &lpar;including improvements in modes of documentation&rpar; which can be said to befit the profession of a Historian&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; Historians have the collective knowledge of how nations in the past approached the problems of the economy&comma; politics&comma; technological inventions&comma; and also the difficulties of nation-building&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This ocean-like knowledge of the past is flowing heavily and continuously&comma; for the Historians to fetch&comma; explore&comma; and imbibe&period; They embrace the modern economy and diversify its concepts with an ocean of knowledge as ancient Egyptians did to River Nile&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In summary&comma; I urge the students of History to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;arcadiapublishing&period;com&sol;Navigation&sol;Community&sol;Arcadia-and-THP-Blog&sol;June-2016&sol;Why-It&percnt;E2&percnt;80&percnt;99s-Important-That-We-Study-History">explore the knowledge of the past<&sol;a> and relate it to the new approach that suits the present world&period; In other words&comma; I encourage the students of History to learn new things &lpar;skills&rpar; in addition to their knowledge of the past so that we can be able to conquer nature&period; These skills may include&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Presentation Skills<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Negotiation Skills<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Leadership Skills<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Managerial Skills<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Communications Skills<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Software Skills &lpar;i&period;e&period; Programming&comma; Coding&comma; UI&sol;UX&comma; Data Analysis&comma; etc&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Blue-Collar Skills &lpar;i&period;e&period; Plumbing&comma; Electrician&comma; Carpentry&comma; Painting&comma; Welding&comma; Auto Mechanics etc&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>WORDS FOR THE WISE&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They say head wey no go read&comma; the head go carry the load&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I go do am later&comma; na em make fowl no dey fly like other birds<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Try to create business&sol;job opportunities for yourselves&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The time is now not later&period; Create the opportunity now not later&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Usman Nuhu<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A Writer&comma; Political Analyst&comma; Presenter&comma; and Politician&comma; writes from Katsina State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>09038377399<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nuhuusman3453&commat;gmail&period;com&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; 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