So, I have built my career. There is hardly a position I did not hold in the academic/administrative arena, to the extent that I think I have gained … - Saadatu Hassan Liman

However, in terms of Western education, it may not presently be where it should be. It is statistically evident that there is much improvement in terms of school enrolment and the number of students graduating with at least first degree. You can check the statistics of the North over the years in that regard. Therefore, the North is really trying to see that it reaches the target.

However, there are a number of factors that have perhaps constituted hindrances to the realisation of the expected target. Examples of such factors are poverty, early marriage, insecurity and other cultural factors. Nevertheless, we are certainly moving; change is eminent, though slow.

Both my husband and myself came from well-educated families. And in both cases, we are not the eldest children and not the first to be educated, using the same cultural setting. That means we, the female children, are married off after our secondary school education, and we continue in our husband’s houses.