A COMMON tread that tied the contributions of participants at the two-day political summit held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, which ended on Wednesday night, is the need to address the prevailing wind of insecurity blowing in Nigeria and other socio-economic and ethnic problems through a national conference.

WITH a current population of over 165 million and projected to reach 450 million by 2050, clearly, Nigeria has one of the fastest population growth rate in the world, majority of them speaking English language, to the detriment of about 400 ethnic languages with Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba dominant.

Today, many indigenous languages have become endangered and would probably go into extinction if nothing is done to save the situation. The young people who are supposed to champion the preservation of the indigenous languages are mostly not in tune with their native dialects.

It is obvious that with the way our native languages are being handled in schools especially in townships, four to five generations ahead will definitely find it difficult to identify where they are from. In a country like Nigeria where there are so many ethnic groups and languages, you you could hardly see a child or an adult speaking his/her native language.

ARAB leaders are generally known to be despotic and brutal, with a high sense of insecurity. Syria’s President, Bashar Al Assad is no different from the likes of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, Ben Ali Omar Al Bashar and others that build their security round their inner circles of family members and cronies.