EDUCATION IS A VEHICLE TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ADAMAWA STATE
Education is the natural, harmonious and progressive development of man’s innate  powers; it is also defined as the deliberate and systematic influence extended by a mature person upon the immature through instructions, discipline and harmonious development of the physical, intellect aesthetic, social and spiritual powers of the human being according to their essential hierarchy by and for the individual and social uses and directed towards the union of the educated with the creator of the final end.
Education is basic to development and also regarded as an instrument through which society can be transformed. As a salient factor in transition programme, education equips human resources with the needed knowledge, skills and competencies which would make them functional, and contribute to the all-round development of the nation. It does not only help to supply the essential human capital which is a necessary condition for sustainable economic growth but it is also a key to poverty reduction and a major vehicle for promoting equity, fairness and social justice. For Adamawa State to experience rapid economic growth must give high preference to ensuring that a high percentage of its population is entitled to quality education.
Education is considered a major remedy for many problems faced by developing countries. For example, high fertility rates are adding to population pressures in several countries. From a global perspective and application of knowledge. Education in general and higher education in particular are fundamental to the construction of a knowledge economy and society in all nations. An abundance of well-educated people goes along with a high level of labor productivity.
The result of illiteracy has led to economic backwardness have underlined how a poorly educated, trained and culturally unaware levels, low labor mobility, slow structural changes, slow diffusion of innovation, preventing sustained economic growth to set in. education is an important key of achieving a sustainable national development, the quality of its education should be improved.
Investing in education is fast becoming very significant because of new challenges being faced in Adamawa State environment and the discovery of education as an impetus to economic growth and development, in order to put an end to social vices like unemployment, thuggery, child abuse, drug abuse etc
While Economic Development refers to the transformation, efficient and effective management of human, natural and mineral resources with the creation of wealth and equitable distribution to the masses.  Education is the panacea to poverty, formal education is the major index of wealth and social mobility, the major implication of the stated relationship between poverty and education is that the solution to the poverty problem is to acquire education.
We must not be myopic in terms of maximization of resources especially in Adamawa State in which they involve mostly in Agricultural practice like rearing of livestock’s e.g. poultry, cows, cattle’s etc.  And cultivation of crops e.g. sorghum, millet, beniseed, groundnut, okra, pepper, tomatoes etc. 
We need the intervention of innovation and technology to facilitate food production through the use of machineries, storage ware house, application farm input and educating the farmers through extension diffusion. That is why we need to maximize our resources especially human resources to build our power and potential in order to maximize and utilize the remaining resources or else they remain untapped. Let’s the government invest on people, regardless of background, tribes, ethnics, if we can do this it will go a long way in developing Adamawa State.
Education must not be underestimated, education is a weapon to transform reform and change a, desert to river, a Sahel to forest, from mediocrity to information, technology and innovation. Let’s educate and save our girls, they have been neglected and rejected of their right which belongs to all and sundry. Gender equality is vital in attaining of progressive and sustainable economic development and a peaceful environment. On the other hand, the contribution of women to a society is usually through the workforce, in situations where women are not included in the labor force, only a particular portion of the workforce is being used thus leading to the wastage of economic resources on a large scale. It is clear that if Adamawa State is to prosper the girls must be educated, our failure to ensure this happens is one of the damaging legacies of our time, with generational consequences. In community where child marriage is highly prevalent and teenage pregnancy common, girls become trapped in poverty cycle unless that cycle is interrupted by access to education. Limited access to quality education is damaging not only on an individual level but on a WHY community and ultimately a societal level too.
WHY DO WE  NEED QUALITY EDUCATION IN ADAMAWA STATE?
Quality education is one of the important this we can do for futures generation. All students regardless of the socio-economic status or family background are entitled to education. Having a good education system is not enough for a state to be economically successful, but the state must also be able to hold onto its well educated residents because educated population leads to innovation, higher levels of productivity and increased economic growth.
A country that seeks to experience rapid economic growth must give high preference to ensuring that a high percentage of its population is entitled to quality education. Education in the modern economy has become a determinant for growth of the national economy. This is because, education is seen as an important factor of human capital investment.
Improving the level of school enrolments: School’s attendance and school infrastructure significantly determine the level of educational output. This implies that educational output will increase in the level of school enrolment, school attendance and school’s infrastructure.
The government should provide free education and make it mandatory to each and every citizen. This will help in limiting the level of illiteracy. Government should provide infrastructure and enabling environment to private sector investment for employment generation amongst the youths. They should also provide informal employment opportunities for the citizens and encourage them to be self-reliance. This can only be done through giving loans and building entrepreneurial skill for different types of businesses. This may have effects people and will not easily be brainwashed to involve in any activities like kidnapping, thuggery, sexual violence and insurgency.
Another pertinent issue in Adamawa State educational sector is that of teacher education. The basic problems reported by surveys carried out in various research in Adamawa State have shown discrepancy between the demand for teachers and the supply for teachers and that teachers fail to meet the minimum requirement as stated by the National policy for Education. This is due to lack of incentives, brain-drain and lack of motivation.
Financial constraint has also limit effectiveness and efficiency to quality of education. Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection through the internet, questionnaires and interview to update in their field of study and be relevant in this contemporary world.
The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of education on economic growth in Adamawa State from the above it is therefore recommended that the Adamawa government need to set up appropriate policies that will modify the educational sector of the economy to improve its standard as well as making education affordable and accessible to all.
Secondly, there must be provision of facilities for education at the crucial primary school level, especially at local government levels, the government therefore require a total restructuring of the primary education to improve its standard and level of enrolment.
Thirdly, there must be availability of infrastructural requirements in the education sector accelerates economic growth. There must be adequate facilities both public and private sectors. In order to enhance teaching learning process.
Fourthly, incentives that will improve teacher performances and availability of educational infrastructures is also to be examined so as to enable Adamawa State to increase its human capital formation that could lead to possible growth and development

EDUCATION IS A DYNAMITE TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD

ADAMAWA STATE

             ADAMAWA STATE (THE LAND OF SUNSHINE AND BEAUTY)

Adamawa State is located at the North eastern part of Nigeria. It lies between latitude 7 and 11N and between longitude 11 and 14 E. its shares boundary with Taraba State in the south and west. Gombe state in its North-West and Borno State to the North, the state has an international boundary with the Cameroon Republic along its eastern side. It has a total area of 39,742.12 square kilometers. The 2005 projected population of the State is 3,106,585. The state is generally characterized by many rivers; the major one is the River Benue whose source is from the highlands of the Cameroon and flows Southward to join the River Niger. The State is divided into 21 local government area. Adamawa State has a tropical wet and dry climate. Dry season lasts for a minimum of five months (November-March) while the wet season spans April to October. Mean Annual rainfall in the State ranges from 700mm in the North-West to 1600mm in the extreme southern part of the State.
The State is naturally divided into two ecological zones; the guinea and Sudan Savannah Zones. In general, the distribution of vegetation reflects the combined control of rainfall, topography and to a lesser extent, that of soils. Agriculture is the mainstay of about 80% of the inhabitants of the state. The ecological condition of the State permits cultivation of root crops cereals and rearing of livestock in large numbers.

Adamawa State is blessed with abundant human and material resources, readily at the disposal of every investor to harness. The state has a fertile land suitable for agricultural activities and other economic activities. Majority of the people in Adamawa State are farmers, cattle rearing are also a major occupation, while village communities living on the banks of Rivers Gongola and Benue and their tributaries in the State engage in fishing and farming.
The major mineral raw materials are granite, barite, trona, salt, coal, gypsum, limestone, uranium, kaolin, sand, limestone, marble, magnesite lateritic etc. while the agro raw materials are sorghum, millet, beniseed, sweet, potatoes, water melon, onions, poultry, groundnut, pepper, groundnut, pepper, Bambara, cowpea, sorrel, livestock, coffee, cocoa, fishery, kenaf, sheanuts. Etc.
Adamawa State is a land of sunshine and beauty. The radiant Sun, pounds the surface of the earth upon the rising of day forcing its presence onto the green and blue, allowing the color of day, to be spread upon the canvas of life. With an artist’s eye, one can see the beauty, the bush strokes and hues, and the interpret the morning, the day as a true work of art. The Sun shines and smiles as a bridegroom coming out of its chamber and rejoice as a strong man to run a race. Its line goes out through all the earth. The Sun determines the revolution and rotation of the earth. Adamawa state is one of the State that is enriched with natural, human, and mineral resources that added beauty to the land specifically. Adamawa State is known to have been endowed with enormous potentials, making the state to have special attributes and distinctive uniqueness in terms of arable land for Agriculture blessed with many tribes and dialects, it has rich and loaded historical heritage as in housing Sukur cultural heritage in Madagali Local Government . Another gift by this Wonder Land, is the sun shines ability of the sun to generate electricity if properly harness.
We must not underestimate the significance of the sun. The sun plays a great role in man, plants and animals. One of the amazing things sunlight provides for us is vitamin D. it is absorbed through the skin and converted to a state that the body can use. It usually requires about thirty minutes of sunlight a day to acquire a minimum dose. Vitamin D is important for the creation and maintenance of bones.
Plants have specific organs in their cells that convert sunlight to food energy through a process known as photosynthesis. A plant will capture the sun rays in the chloroplast through a chemical reaction and this conversion gives plants the ability to supply calories to all life. It is by plants that cows are fed and then the humans that feed on the cows. In this way, sunlight provides the source of food for all life on earth.

It takes the light of the sun eight minutes to reach us, and still it is only a fraction of the powerful heat generated by our star. Yes, it is obvious perk of having a sun, but we would have nothing if there was no light, and to pursue the things we enjoy most. Without the light of the sun, there would not be any life on earth. There would be no star to orbit, and no heat to sustain us. In short, without the life giving light of the sun, we would be a species lost. In fact, we would not even exist.

THE SUNSHINE AND BEAUTY OF ADAMAWA STATE
The youths are the sunshine and beauty of Adamawa State, they are the backbone of the development of the country. The youths are defined as persons resident in Nigeria in the age (12-30 years), physically, psychologically, culturally, socially, biologically and politically. If Adamawa State is to be sustained as a viable entity there must be a very good plan to tap the energy and resourcefulness of the youth population to fast track the economic development.
Youth development brings reformation and transformation related to the human capacity to improve the quality of life in order to eradicate poverty, unemployment and economic declination. The process of development expands human capabilities by expanding the choices that people have to live full and creative lives.
It is also on record, the state produced great politicians right from the first republic, where people like Late Mahmud Ribadu, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa the beautiful land of Adamawa kept producing giants men with great strides in the affairs of this country in politics. The likes of Mamuda Waziri, Bamanga Tuku, Prof Jibril Aminu And Atiku Abubakar.
In the Academics Field research revealed that I the entire North with the exception of Kogi and Benue there’s non state that has high number of Academics both home and abroad are having as Adamawa man as a professor.
Adamawa is a land flowing with milk and honey naturally in which it can create employment to the people irrespective of the tribe, dialect, culture and religion. Adamawa State has abundant of land that can be utilized positively and economically foe establishment of industries (Solar Industries, Coal Industries, agro-allied industries, manufacturing industries etc).

ADAMAWA STATE KEEP SHINING