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The Executive Governor of Jigawa State Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar MON, mni, other governors seek marriage for President Muhammadu Buhari’s only son, Yusuf.

Yusuf Buhari is seeking the hand of Zahra Nasir Bayero the daughter of the Emir of Bichi in Kano State.

Yusuf Buhari and Zahra Nasir Bayero met in the University of Surrey, United Kingdom where Zahra is undergoing her degree in Architecture.

Personalities representing the first family include A.G . Abubakar Malami SAN, H E Umara Zulum, Sen A . Amosun, H E . A. Bagudu, H E . Abdulaziz Yari, DGss Y. Bichi, Prof Abdullahi Abba, Mal Ahmed, Sen . Ali Modu Sherrif, Sen. U Tanko Al-Makura, among others.

Auwal D. Sankara (Fica),
Senior Special Assistant to the Executive Governor of Jigawa State on New Media
(Babban Mataimaki na Musamman ga Maigirma Gwamnan Jihar Jigawa a Sabbin Kafafen Sadarwa).

THISDAY BACKPAGE : SIMON KOLAWOLE

What is the 1999 constitution? Let me tell you a story. In 1998, after the death of the head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar came to power. In an interview with THISDAY in December 1998 (I was a member of the interview team), Abdulsalami said he was so much in a hurry to organise an election and hand over power to civilians that he would have done it within 100 days in office if it were possible. When the election timetable was fixed and the presidential election was slated for February 27, 1999, he said he wanted to hand over by March 1999 but the lawyers advised him to give some time for post-election litigation. So they finally settled for May 29, 1999.

Actually, Abdulsalami had other options before him. One was to use delay tactics by saying he wanted to write a new constitution. To set up a constitutional conference, hold elections into it, allow time for deliberations, recommendation, presentation of report, and then appraisal and approval by the Provisional Ruling Council (PRC) — the country’s highest decision making body at the time — Abdulsalami could buy at least two more years for himself and enjoy power for longer. He could even begin to toy with the idea of transmuting to a civilian president. You know how the devil works. But he was simply in a hurry to see the birth of democracy.

Nevertheless, we needed a constitution. So on November 11, 1998, Abdulsalami inaugurated the Constitution Debate Co-ordinating Committee (CDCC) to “pilot the debate, co-ordinate and collate views and recommendations canvassed by individuals and groups and submit report not later than 31 December 1998″. It was not headed by a soldier but by Justice Niki Tobi, with Dr. Suleiman Kurmo as deputy chairman. There was no single military man on the committee. They went round the country to collect memoranda from the public through town hall meetings in Benin, Enugu, Jos, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Kano, Ibadan, Lagos and Sokoto. They excluded military formations.

After all the frenetic debates — up and down, north and south, east and west — the Tobi committee submitted its report to the military government. Tobi said: “In the light of the memoranda and the oral presentation on the 1995 Draft Constitution, it is clear that Nigerians basically opt for the 1979 Constitution with relevant amendments. They want it, and they have copiously given their reasons for their choice in the different memoranda and oral presentations. So we have recommended to the Provisional Ruling Council the adoption of the 1979 Constitution with relevant amendments from the 1995 Draft Constitution.” Abdulsalami accepted the recommendation.

When the 1999 constitution was finally published, three of us at THISDAY sat down and placed it side by side with the 1979 constitution. We then did a clause-by-clause analysis. The trio were: Mr. Victor Ifijeh (the current MD of The Nation newspaper who was THISDAY editor then), Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu (SA to Senate President Bukola Saraki who was THISDAY politics editor at the time) and my not-so-humble self (then THISDAY features editor). We did a word-for-word reading and laughed ourselves to stupor: this is pure plagiarism of the 1979 constitution! We were not surprised, though: the Tobi committee already told us what to expect.

There were only a few notable differences in the two documents, such as the 13% derivation for oil-producing states and the number of states in the federation. While the 1979 constitution spoke about 19 states, 1999 said 36 states, logically. They were only reflecting the realities on ground. FEDECO in the 1979 document changed to INEC in 1999. I would therefore conclude that the 1999 constitution is a replica of the 1979 constitution. In fact, Prof. Akin Oyebode, the well-respected legal luminary who recently signed a statement by Southern Leaders of Thought to condemn the 1999 constitution, was a key player in the finalisation of that document in 1999.

I may have to add that the 1995 Draft Constitution referred to by the Tobi committee was produced by the National Constitutional Conference conveyed by Abacha. It was made up of appointed and elected . One of its recommendations was the six-zone structure which we operate today, although it is not contained in the current constitution. Another proposal is the “minimum 13% derivation payment” to oil-producing states. I am highlighting these points in response to claims that our constitution was written by the military and not “we the people”. The military did not write any constitution — apart from promulgating the enabling decrees.

The biggest irony for me is the vicious condemnation of the 1999 constitution by Chief Akande. Now you won’t believe this: Akande was a member of the 1977 Constituent Assembly that debated and produced the 1979 constitution — which, as you would find out, is 99% what we have as the 1999 constitution today! In 1977, Akande was elected to represent Ila and Odo-otin local governments in the Constituent Assembly. I repeat: the 1999 constitution is a photocopy of the 1979 constitution. Factually and logically, Akande has described the document he helped produce as “a bad relic of military mentality”. I am trying to make sense out of this.

Military mentality? Again, let us look at that closely. The constitution drafting committee set up by Gen. Murtala Muhammed in 1975 was headed by Chief FRA Williams. He was not a major general, in my records. (Awo declined to serve on the committee because he wanted to run for president.) The report of the committee formed the basis for discussions at the 1977 Constituent Assembly. Notable CA were Chief MKO Abiola and core Awoists such as Chief Bola Ige, Chief Abraham Adesanya and Chief Bisi Onabanjo. It was chaired by eminent jurist, Justice Udo Udoma. This is what Akande, himself an elected member, calls “military mentality”. I just can’t understand.

Under the cloned constitution, Akande was elected governor of Osun state in 1999. Under the same constitution that “promotes corruption”, Akande ruled Osun state without stealing one kobo. He was the epitome of transparency and prudence, never given to materialism. He lost his re-election bid in 2003 partly because he refused to be corrupt. He refused to pillage state resources for electoral gain. He did not buy a private jet or houses in Dubai and America. Yet he believes that the 1999 constitution “breeds and protects corrupt practices and criminal impunities in governance”.

In conclusion, I would like to emphasis one point: I have by no means suggested that the 1999 constitution is perfect. I am not that daft. My point is that there are too many statements being made by those against the constitution that are not based on facts. The 1999 constitution was NOT written by the military. I also hasten to say that nobody can write a perfect constitution. Even if Prof. Ben Nwabueze, a well-respected constitutional expert, writes a new constitution today, loopholes will surface in a matter of time. That is why laws are dynamic. As loopholes appear, you plug them. Meanwhile, is the 1999 constitution that horrible? This we shall discuss in my next article.

obiekunie01:


YOUR MADNESS NO GET CURE!

your ignorance knows no bound

mamdanju:
Fulani amaka���

Nigeria first. and that is all that matters

illicit:


Yes Boko Haram are Kanuris

Majority but not all , there are Igbos, Fulani and even some foreigners too.

illicit:
Boko Haram are Kanuris tho

So you can't say something Good about the peaceful co-existence that they use to have in those days. Boko haram is a terrorist organization terrorizing every human both Muslims and Christians

This letter from Shehu Elkanemi of Borno to Sultan Mohammed Bello in January 1824 contains a clear message to all Nigerians.....(gratitude to Aminu Gamawa of Harvard Law School for sharing......)

Letter From Sheikh Of Borno To Sultan Mohammed Bello
Dated 23rd of Rabee-ul-thani, 1238; (Corresponding to January, 1824)

Praise be to God, and prayers and peace be unto the Apostle of God (Mohammed).

To the honoured and accomplished, the virtuous and munificent, the pattern of goodness and the standard of benevolence, head of the Soodanic kingdon, and ruler of the country of Hausa, our friend, the learned Mohammed Bello, son of the intelligent sheikh Ossman, whose soul may God shelter with the clouds of mercy and peace.

Our salutation, accompanied with affection as strong as the odour of musk, and as perpetual as the movement of the globe, and with the mercy and blessings of God, be unto you.

Hence, the cause of writing this letter and the purpose of its lines, is to acquaint you that the bearers are English travelers; whose nation, out of all the other Christians, has maintained with the Mooslemeen uninterrupted treaties of religious amity and friendship, established since ancient periods, which they inherited from their forefathers and ancestors; and on this , they penetrate into Mooslemeen countries whenever they please, and traverse all provinces and lands in confidence and trust, without fear. They came to our country, sent to us by our virtuous and accomplished friend, the Lord Yousuf Pasha, master of Tripoli, to see and delight themselves with the wonders of the Land of Soodan, and to become acquainted with its rarities, as lakes, rivers, and forests (or gardens) ; equal to which are seldom seen in other countries.

After having accomplished their wishes, in seeing all the things that the land of Barnooh (Borno) and its environs contained, they felt anxious to visit your country from what they heard of the innumerable wonders therein. I have, therefore, permitted them to proceed on their journey, accompanying them with letters which explain their object.

You are well aware of what is stated in Alcoraanic sayings upon the subject of the obervance of honour, dictated by our Lord, the Apostle of God; and that the true Mooslemeen have always avoided shedding the blood of Christians, and assisted and protected them with their honour. Be then attentive to these travelers, and cast them not into the corners of neglect; let no one hurt them, either by words or deeds, nor interrupt them with any injurious behavior: but let them return to us, safe, and may the high God bestow upon you the best reward for your treatment to them, and insure to us and to you the path of righteousness for conduct in this life.

Our salutation may be given to all who are about you, and to those who are related to you in general. And peace be unto you.

(Sealed)

MOHAMMED EL-AMEEN EEN MOHAMMED EL-KANEMY

xpressionx:
Quota system Islamic professor that managed to know a little of political science?

The same you that don't know your right from your left.

viyon02:
It is high time we go back to our farms and help ourselves, especially we the Southwestners, we shouldn't leave the agricultural sector to the northerners this is the only weapon they have.

You think so, Only agriculture?

This is my H.O.D, Dept of Pol Science, University of Maiduguri.
A famous Professor of Political Science, and an Islamic Scholar who commits the whole of Holy Qur‘an into memory.

Humble and calm, but look at him coming back home, relaxing on the heap of Onions he just harvested from his farm on the suburb of Maiduguri.
Lessons could be learned anywhere, not necessarily in a classroom.
-Adamu bello

Amina Muhammad Re-appointed Deputy Secretarty General At UN June 19, 2021.

United Nations secretary-general António Guterres has appointed Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed to serve as Deputy Secretary-general for a second term, shortly after the UN General Assembly re-appointed him for a second term.

Guterres’s second term starts on January 1, 2022, and will run for a period of five years. He succeeded Ban Ki-moon in January 2017 as the ninth secretary-general.

Speaking with journalists after taking the oath of office for a second term, Guterres said he had extended an offer to Mohammed to continue in office.




“After being elected, I have the pleasure to invite the deputy secretary-general to remain in my second mandate and I hope she will accept,” Guterres said.

Mohammed, who was standing behind Guterres at the press briefing, responded with the comment: “absolute honour”.

She had also served as the special adviser to Ban Ki-moon on post-2015 development planning, which focused on the 2030 agenda for sustainable development goals.

Mohammed is a diplomat and politician who is serving as the fifth Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Previously, she was Nigeria’s Minister of Environment from 2015 to 2016 and was a key player in the Post-2015 Development Agenda process.

Mohammed was born in Liverpool, UK to a Fulani Nigerian veterinarian-officer and a British nurse. She is the eldest of five daughters.

She attended a primary school in Kaduna and Maiduguri, and Buchan School in Isle of Man.

She further attended Henley Management College in 1989.

After she finished her studies, her father demanded she return to Nigeria.

Between 1981 and 1991, Mohammed worked with Archcon Nigeria, an architectural design firm in association with Norman and Dawbarn United Kingdom.


In 1991, she founded Afri-Projects Consortium, and from 1991 to 2001 she was its Executive Director.

From 2002 until 2005, Mohammed coordinated the Task Force on Gender and Education for the United Nations Millennium Project.

Mohammed later acted as the Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

In 2005, she was charged with the coordination of Nigeria’s debt relief funds toward the achievement of the MDGs.

Her mandate included deg a Virtual Poverty Fund with innovative approaches to poverty reduction, budget coordination and monitoring, as well as providing advice on pertinent issues regarding poverty, public sector reform and sustainable development.

Mohammed later became the Founder and CEO of the Center for Development Policy Solutions and as an Adjunct Professor for the Master’s in Development Practice program at Columbia University.

During that time, she served on numerous international advisory boards and s, including the UN Secretary-General’s High-level on Post-2015 Development Agenda and the Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development.

She also chaired the Advisory Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Global Monitoring Report on Education (GME).

From 2012, Mohammed was a key player in the Post-2015 Development Agenda process, serving as the Special Adviser to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Post-2015 development planning.

In this role, she acted as the link between the Secretary-General, his High Level of Eminent Persons (HLP), and the General Assembly’s Open Working Group (OWG), among other stakeholders.

From 2014, she also served on the Secretary-General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development.

Mohammed served as Federal Minister of Environment in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari from November 2015 to February 2017.

During that time, she was Nigeria’s representative in the African Union (AU) Reform Steering Committee, chaired by Paul Kagame.

She resigned from the Nigerian Federal Executive Council on 24 February

Hausa is an afroasiatic language , belonging to same family of languages with Arabic,Hebrew, Somali,amharic and Berber languages.
( _encyclopedia Britannica 2011)_

Hausa as a language and hausas have been in existence for a 3000 years and will survive a 1000 more.
as long as our language survives our people will always survive.
The hausa language is the pillar of our people it's the foundation of our culture it's our sign of unity through which all hausa clans ( _Kanawa ,Ranawa,kabawa,Gobirawa,Daurawa,Zamfarwa,Zazzagawa, Hadejawa,Daurawa, Arawa to mention but_ a few) unite and come together as one indivisible unit.
The hausa language is our pride.
The language is our strength which unite us all.

The only thing needed is the unity of all hausa people in respective of the hausa clan/group they belong to.
Hausa is a giant , Hausa is a sleeping giant.

Hausa as a language and hausawas the (hausa people)
had drawn the attention of several international countries that made it so important to the extent its studied in several countries by various universities both within and outside Hausa mainland _(Northern Nigeria and Southern Niger republic)._

here is a list of some of the university that offer Hausa as a course in different dimensions.

1. university of Wisconsin-Madison , USA

2. Boston University department of African studies, Massachusetts
USA

3. University of bayreuth ,

4. Center for African studies, Peking university China

5. Yale university, New Haven , Connecticut USA

6. University of Warsaw Sweden

7. University of pennysilvania, Philadelphia,USA

8. University of Kansas, Lawrence USA.

9. University of London, UK.

10. Oxford university, UK

11. University of Indianapolis, Indiana USA

12. Ghent university, Ghent Belgium.

13. Humboldt university,Berlin

14. columbia university,New York

15. university of California,los Angeles CA, USA
16. Stanford University, California, USA
17. Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
18. University of Nanjing, China
19. University of Foreign Studies, Hebei China

List of public Universities that offer Hausa as a course
within Nigeria

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

Al-Qalam University, Katsina.

Bauchi State University, Gadau, Bauchi State.

Bayero University, Kano

Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara State.

Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State.

Kaduna State University, Kaduna.

Nasarawa State University, Keffi.

Nigerian Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State.

Sokoto State University, Sokoto.

Sule Lamido University, Kafin Hausa, Jigawa State.

Taraba State University, Jalingo.

Umaru Musa Yaradua University, Katsina.

University Of Maiduguri.

Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto.

Yobe State University, Damaturu.

Most colleges of education in the north offer hausa as a course
And some colleges in the south example Adeniran Ogunsanya college of education,Lagos
School of languages department of Hausa etc

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05-07-21

•Why we embraced Islam -Residents

20th May 2021

From Chijioke Agwu, Abakaliki

Enohia Itim in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State is the community with the highest number of Muslims in the entire South East. In addition to having three functional mosques, the community also hosts one of the most vibrant Muslim schools in Africa. The school is known as Centre for Islamic and Arabic Studies, Enohia Afikpo. It trains Muslim faithful in primary and secondary education. Apart from major emphasis on Islamic and Arabic studies, the school, like any other school, participates in the West African Examination Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO) and other external examinations every year.
Daily Sun gathered that many Muslim families from different parts of the country prefer to send their children to the Afikpo Muslim School because of its reputation as one of the best Islamic schools in Africa.
History of the school
The Centre for Islamic and Arabic Studies was founded in 1958 by a son of the community, Sheik Ibraham Okpani Nwagui. He was said to have founded the centre upon his return from Senegal, where he embraced Islam. A member of the community, Hassan Uron, told Daily Sun that Nwagui embraced Islam in 1952 when he met a famous Muslim leader in Kaolack, Senegal, known as Sheik Ibrahim Nyias, whom he served for about five years before he returned to Nigeria. He was said to have died in his hotel room in Owerri in 1976, weeks after his appointment as Commissioner for Urban Development in the then Imo State Government. The death of Okpani affected the growth of the centre. It was gathered that the place remained redundant until 1981 when the Muslim World League came and took over the funding and management of the school, following an appeal made to them by of the community.
Why community embraced Islam
Furthermore, Hassan, who said that he worked in the school for over 34 years before he retired in December 2018, explained that the entire Ehohia Itim was a complete Christian area, until the year 1958 when Nwagui Okpani, as he was called, returned from Senegal and started preaching about a new religion, Islam.
He explained that, because of Nwagui’s love for his people and his visible ion for helping the poor, the community met and reached a resolution to him in his religion, which he said preached love, peace, unity and progress of one another.
“When he returned to Nigeria, Enohia Itim in particular, he started preaching Islam. Because he was a good man, our people loved him and believed in him. They met and reached a resolution to him in Islam. After some time, the community gave him a portion of land to build an Islamic centre. He converted many of our people and established School of Islamic and Arabic Studies to teach our people and others the true meaning and benefits of Islam,” he said.
Civil war setback for Islam
But for the Nigeria civil war, which broke out in 1967, Islam would have thrived above Christianity in the community and penetrated many parts of Ebonyi State and Igboland beyond what it is today.
It was gathered that the turn of the civil war, which saw the killing of many citizens of the defunct Biafra Republic, made many Muslims in Afikpo to denounce the religion because of their belief that the killings were done by northerners, most of whom were Muslims.
Hassan said: “After the war, some of the community who were Muslims denounced Islam because of the way Biafrans were killed. They could not separate Islam from the northern people. But some people refused to denounce despite serious pressure to do so within and outside the community. Before the war, Islam was the main thing here and people were embracing it, but the war came and changed the whole thing. We have about 42 churches in Enohia Itim and only three mosques.
“But the most important is that we have been living in peace since that time till now without any form of clash because Islam preaches peace and love for one another. At times, it is even us Muslims that help Christians to settle their differences when they have problems.”
School faces existential threats
However, the Centre for Islamic and Arabic Studies, Afikpo, is facing serious threats that, if not well managed, could see to the permanent closure or relocation of the school from the area. Daily Sun was told that hoodlums believed to be pro-Biafran groups, have been threatening to attack the school. They alleged that the institution was being used to produce dangerous weapons and to hide Fulani herdsmen, among other allegations.
But the director of the school, Sheik Isa Okonkwo, from Enugu State, dismissed the allegations as false, only intended to give the centre bad name in order to destroy it.
He said those peddling the falsehood were enemies of Islam and people of Afikpo, adding that the evil propaganda first started in 2005 when suspected of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) attacked the place using improvised explosive devices. Sheik Okonkwo, who spoke during an inspection tour of facilities in the school on Monday, May 10, 2021, by stakeholders and people of the community, noted that the school had existed in Afikpo for over four decades without causing any trouble in the community. He said, instead, the centre has helped to train many sons and daughters of the community who are doing great in different areas of life.
Addressing the people of Afikpo on the premises of the Islamic Centre, he said: “I was raised and brought up in this land. My coming back here to head this school is a wonderful homecoming. You have touched lives; this community has touched lives and you can never be forgotten in the history of man. You don’t know the length and breadth of where your touches have reached.
“We are here today because of some ill feelings that brought about some allegations that have been going on now for a period of time. And I call it a tactic used when you want to hang a dog, you give it a bad name. This Islamic school has existed here for a period of 40 years, 40 glorious years. Great men and women have been produced in the course of these years and it has been a very robust relationship with the entire Afikpo clan and particularly Enohia community. But in 2005, something strange and unlike Afikpo happened here in the Islamic Centre; MASSOB attacked this centre that year. They came very early in the morning when people were praying in the mosque. They tried to explode about 13 bombs here in the centre but only three managed to explode with very minimal damage. It took the community by surprised as they were not expecting such. After a very serious investigation, it was discovered the attackers came from outside and no one from this community was part of it. In 2017, IPOB came out, they marked 26 of us from South East for assassination, for no other reason but because we are Muslims. They published our names, phone numbers and states of origin. They call us almost every day threatening us. Out of the 26 persons about seven are from Afikpo. Sadly, after EndSARS protest, the threat continued in a higher tempo; they were sending us text messages that they were coming to bomb this centre. Now, there is a video trending that they are coming to bomb the centre because, according to them, we are producing dangerous weapons here for herdsmen.”
He added that the essence of the invitation to stakeholders and journalists for the tour was “to probe us and inspect our facilities to see if there is anything harmful we are doing here. If you have anything bad here, we will leave.”
‘Attack on centre is attack on Afikpo’
After inspecting the centre, of the community appealed to of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to discontinue their alleged plot to attack the Centre, stressing that there was nothing evil going on there.
Traditional ruler of the community, Eze Boniface Oti and the youth President of Enohia Itim, Uro Akpu, who spoke on behalf of the people of the area, said the facility belonged to the community, stressing that it was built by their son for the community.
Eze Boniface noted that the Centre had been of great benefit to the community in of education, empowerment and community development.
He said: “The stories flying around that this Centre is producing dangerous weapons or housing Fulani herdsmen is false. This Centre has been here for decades and our sons and daughters have ed through this school. It is our property and the people working there are Afikpo people and Igbo people. We are saying any attack on the Centre is attack on Afikpo people.”
The youth leader spoke in the same vein, appealing that the purported attack will be counterproductive.
“I am a Christian, a deacon for that matter. This school didn’t just start. We grew up to meet this school and many of our people graduated from here. We have lived with the Centre for years without any problem at all. It bothers us how outsiders who are obviously not happy that the school is here will be making unfounded remarks about the school. If there is anything bad about the school, Afikpo youths can never keep quiet. The school is in our community and we are using this opportunity to say it again that there is nothing wrong with the school. Any attack on the school is an attack on our community”, Akpu stated.
Afikpo stakeholders sue for peace
Meanwhile, traditional rulers, clerics and other stakeholders of Old Afikpo block in Ebonyi State, comprising Afikpo North and Afikpo South local government areas of Ebonyi State have sued for peaceful coexistence in the area.
In a communiqué after a town hall meeting with Governor Daivd Umahi in Abakaliki, recently, they expressed belief in upholding the fundamental human rights of all citizens as enshrined in the Constitution with emphasis on freedom of religion, right to freedom of movement including freedom of settlement by any Nigerian in any part of the State.
Chairman of Ebonyi State Universal Basic Education Board (EBSUEEB), Chief Hyacinth Ikpo, who read the communique said: “We also believe that the same freedom should also provide for the right of movement and religion of any Ebonyi indigenes in any part of Nigeria, in the spirit of harmony, mutual respect and peaceful coexistence.
“We encourage our people to resist the urge to be lured into causing unrest, unleashing turmoil and setting Ebonyi State ablaze by the prittle-prattle of a stranger in a strange land, by the casuistry of historical revisionists, idle demagogues and peddlers of myth and cargo-cult mentality”.

You are not the only one in such situation in nigeria many are with you. But you being a failure is not true , you are far from being a failure with what you have been able to achieve in nigeria, you are not a thief or a criminal and you are hard working from whay you have wrote just be patient and keep on trying your story will be a reference point. God is not man and he sees it all don't and never consider yourself a failure from the story you narates Your time is very near...

TonyRazor:


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. IKONSO THE COMMANDER THAT DIED EVEN BEFORE WAR START�����

Juliusmalema:
Late Commander Ikonso on his Bike

Terrorist wasted

This is following a know-each-other meeting the Governor of Kano State Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, organized between the two business tycoons on Wednesday Rumour was making the round that the businessmen were in dispute over sugar control. To halt the the situation, the governor invited the duo to the meeting.

During the meeting, the businessmen dismissed as untrue the allegation that Dangote was pressurizing the Chairman of BUA, Abdussamad Isyaka Rabi'u, to increase the price of the product.

At the meeting the governor was together with the Kano elder statesman Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata, the Minister of Industrial Trade and Investment, Hon. Niyi Adebayo, the representative of the Emir of Kano, Sarkin Dawaki Babba Alhaji Aminu Babba Dan Agundi, Chairman, NEPZA Hon. Adamu Fanda, the Chairman Kano State Council of Jumaat Mosque Imams and the Imam of Ahmadu Tijjani Mosque, Kofar Mata, Sheikh Nasir Adam.

As the governor and Aminu Dantata onished the two businessmen of the danger Nigeria's economy my find itself if they allow the slight misunderstanding to grow, the two businessmen promised to avoid any possible misunderstanding.

Putting elements of the pedestrian "Islamization agenda/conspiracy" to rest.

An Urhobo officer General David Akpode Ejoor introduced the Arabic inscription and the Star emblem into the Nigeria Army crest.[i][/i]

On page 16 (see picture) of his autobiography "Reminisces" Major-General David Akpode Ejoor explains in detail how he incorporated these symbols.

"In the colonial days, the cap badge of the army was a palm tree. This could be interpreted to represent the wealth of the country which the British were to exploit.

For that reason, the palm tree had to go.

Besides, the Action Group party had a palm tree as its symbol, and it was important that the army and a political party should not have the same symbol.

My job was to seek a new meaningful design for the cap badge of the Nigerian Army. I set to work.

In seeking a new design, I was anxious that the symbol should reflect the duty of the army and should be capable of inspiring officers and men.

As I searched, I ed the battle between the British and the Sokoto forces in 1903. At that battle, the Sokoto forces had carried the Sultan's flag with an Arabic inscription on it.

That Arabic inscription I learnt meant, "VICTORY IS FROM GOD ALONE". This, I thought was an excellent symbol that had meaning and could inspire.

What is more, the British had themselves incorporated the symbol into the regimental colour which the Nigerian Regiment carried on parade. I decided to incorporate the Arabic INSCRIPTION INTO THE CAP BADGE TO REPRESENT DEFENCE...

Next, I searched for a symbol that would depict unity. I found and answer in Lugard's interlaced triangles which he designed at the amalgamation to represent the coming together of NORTHERN and SOUTHERN NIGERIA.

In choosing this symbol for the Nigerian Army cap badge, I hoped it would remind the Nigerian Soldier that his duty was to defend the unity and integrity of his country. I now had two symbols representing DEFENCE AND UNITY."

Now, for something that could inspire the army in it's task of defending the nation, I landed on the idea of the Eagle. Again this was not original. The nation had chosen the eagle as national emblem. The eagle is a powerful bird, indeed, the king of birds. It thus represented strength.

The eagle had a reputation, when once had located it's prey, of swooping and striking swiftly, accurately and decidedly, qualities which the Nigerian army should strive to achieve.

Having decided on these symbols, my next task was to get an artist to put them together into a unified design for the cap badge of the Nigerian Army. This was eventually done. Then I was required to defend my design before the ministerial committee.

The committee was made up of three Ministers.

1. Muhammadu Ribadu (Defence)
2. Festus Okotie-Eboh (Finance)
3. Yar'adua (Works and Housing).

It was awe-inspiring to have to appear before these great names of the First Republic. I had to defend the design.

I that was when I got to the interlaced triangle, Ribadu and Yar'adua exchanged glances and showed some concern.

Now I know why. The interlaced triangles also represented the star of David, the symbol of Israel.

This alarmed the two Muslim ministers. Fortunately for me, there was the Arabic inscription. This, although at the time I was not thinking in of Islam and Christianity, my design happened to incorporate symbols that could be associated with those two religions. Just as well, perhaps.

At the end of my defence, the design was approved. I thus left a permanent mark on part of the uniform of the Nigerian Army. This is a rare privilege for any serving officer.

I thank God for affording me that opportunity...

~ REMINISCENCES by David Akpode Ejoor.

Two different HAUSA MEN from kano state the same local Government, Bichi . Na them they control major market. Oil is not the future ..... Where are the Igbos ?

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Stephanie Kurlow put on her first tutu at the age of 2. She donned her first hijab at the age of 9. When Kurlow first converted to Islam along with her family nine years ago, she feared her beliefs could never coincide with her artistic ion.

Now, at only 14 years old, Kurlow’s fears are behind her. The young dancer is en route to becoming the first professional ballerina in the world to don a hijab.

CULTURE & ARTS
These Photos Capture The Beauty And Grace Of The World’s First Muslim Hijabi Ballerina
Did we mention the fact that she’s only 14 years old?
By Priscilla Frank
09/29/2016 08:38 AM ET
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Updated Oct 06, 2016

Lisa Maree Williams via Getty Images
Stephanie Kurlow put on her first tutu at the age of 2. She donned her first hijab at the age of 9. When Kurlow first converted to Islam along with her family nine years ago, she feared her beliefs could never coincide with her artistic ion.

Now, at only 14 years old, Kurlow’s fears are behind her. The young dancer is en route to becoming the first professional ballerina in the world to don a hijab.

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As these stunning photographs, taken at a dance studio in Sydney, Australia, clearly display, Kurlow is managing to combine her faith and her talent just fine. The images depict Kurlow, the daughter of Australian and Russian parents, in a striking blue tutu and matching hijab, as a dreamlike vision of discipline and poise. The stunning photos, starkly different from the ballet images that usually populate ballet reviews and Instagram feeds, present a preview of a more accepting and inclusive future for dance.


Lisa Maree Williams via Getty Images
When Kurlow first began wearing hijab, she couldn’t find a ballet class that would allow her to wear the garment while training. Rather than back down, Kurlow launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for rigorous, private tutoring that would provide her with the training she needed to become the world’s first Muslim hijabi ballerina.

Almost 700 people donated to make her vision a reality, raising a total of over $7,000.

And like a good ballerina, she made it all look so easy. “I think it’s really cool and amazing how ballerinas never show pain,” she said in an interview with CNN. “We could be bleeding in our shoes and never show pain.”Kurlow, inspired by ballet trailblazer Misty Copeland and hijabi Emirati lifter Amna Al Haddad, hopes her story will inspire other girls who feel disconnected from their dreams due to their religions, ethnicities or backgrounds. She plans to one day open her own dance facility specifically geared toward diverse youths.

“This school will have special programs for specific religions, groups for our youth and people who are from disconnected communities,” she expressed in her LaunchGood campaign. “I will provide for our future generations a chance to express and heal themselves and others through the magnificent art of performing and creativity.”

CULTURE & ARTS
These Photos Capture The Beauty And Grace Of The World’s First Muslim Hijabi Ballerina
Did we mention the fact that she’s only 14 years old?
By Priscilla Frank
09/29/2016 08:38 AM ET
|
Updated Oct 06, 2016

Lisa Maree Williams via Getty Images
Stephanie Kurlow put on her first tutu at the age of 2. She donned her first hijab at the age of 9. When Kurlow first converted to Islam along with her family nine years ago, she feared her beliefs could never coincide with her artistic ion.

Now, at only 14 years old, Kurlow’s fears are behind her. The young dancer is en route to becoming the first professional ballerina in the world to don a hijab.

ment

As these stunning photographs, taken at a dance studio in Sydney, Australia, clearly display, Kurlow is managing to combine her faith and her talent just fine. The images depict Kurlow, the daughter of Australian and Russian parents, in a striking blue tutu and matching hijab, as a dreamlike vision of discipline and poise. The stunning photos, starkly different from the ballet images that usually populate ballet reviews and Instagram feeds, present a preview of a more accepting and inclusive future for dance.


Lisa Maree Williams via Getty Images
When Kurlow first began wearing hijab, she couldn’t find a ballet class that would allow her to wear the garment while training. Rather than back down, Kurlow launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for rigorous, private tutoring that would provide her with the training she needed to become the world’s first Muslim hijabi ballerina.

Almost 700 people donated to make her vision a reality, raising a total of over $7,000.

And like a good ballerina, she made it all look so easy. “I think it’s really cool and amazing how ballerinas never show pain,” she said in an interview with CNN. “We could be bleeding in our shoes and never show pain.”


Lisa Maree Williams via Getty Images
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Kurlow, inspired by ballet trailblazer Misty Copeland and hijabi Emirati lifter Amna Al Haddad, hopes her story will inspire other girls who feel disconnected from their dreams due to their religions, ethnicities or backgrounds. She plans to one day open her own dance facility specifically geared toward diverse youths.

“This school will have special programs for specific religions, groups for our youth and people who are from disconnected communities,” she expressed in her LaunchGood campaign. “I will provide for our future generations a chance to express and heal themselves and others through the magnificent art of performing and creativity.”


Lisa Maree Williams via Getty Images
Still just a teenager, Kurlow is undeterred by the disapproval thrown her way, from both Muslim and ballet communities. “I’ve gotten those looks or those little whispers from people saying that I can’t do it, and there are some parts of the ballet world that only see me for the clothes I wear, or the beliefs I have,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald.

“But this means everything to me. I think I can bring people together through dance and inspire some young people from different races that might be a bit disengaged.” If the ballerina is this tenacious and engaged as a teenager, we look forward to seeing the old school standards she overthrows and sashays across in the future.

Kurlow, you got this. We’re just lucky to get a glimpse of the absolutely gorgeous process.

My family and I are mourning the loss of our beloved grandmother, Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama, affectionately known to many as “Mama Sarah” but known to us as “Dani” or Granny. Born in the first quarter of the last century, in Nyanza Province, on the shores of Lake Victoria, she had no formal schooling, and in the ways of her tribe, she was married off to a much older man while only a teen. She would spend the rest of her life in the tiny village of Alego, in a small home built of mud-and thatch brick and without electricity or indoor plumbing. There she raised eight children, tended to her goats and chickens, grew an assortment of crops, and took what the family didn’t use to sell at the local open-air market.

Although not his birth mother, Granny would raise my father as her own, and it was in part thanks to her love and encouragement that he was able to defy the odds and do well enough in school to get a scholarship to attend an American university. When our family had difficulties, her homestead was a refuge for her children and grandchildren, and her presence was a constant, stabilizing force. When I first traveled to Kenya to learn more about my heritage and father, who had ed away by then, it was Granny who served as a bridge to the past, and it was her stories that helped fill a void in my heart.

During the course of her life, Granny would witness epochal changes taking place around the globe: world war, liberation movements, moon landings, and the advent of the computer age. She would live to fly on jets, receive visitors from around the world, and see one of her grandsons get elected to the United States presidency. And yet her essential spirit—strong, proud, hard-working, unimpressed with conventional marks of status and full of common sense and good humor—never changed.

We will miss her dearly, but celebrate with gratitude her long and remarkable life.

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The Director of News

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PRESS RELEASE



UNPROVOKED KILLINGS OF SECURITY OPERATIVES: POLICE ARREST 16, RECOVER ARMS, AMMUNITION, EXPLOSIVES

• No murderer will go unpunished…we are clo on them, says IGP.



Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested sixteen (16) suspects for complicity in a series of violent and unprovoked attacks on security operatives and facilities in some states of the Federation, particularly in the South-Eastern part of Nigeria. The arrest, which is an outcome of painstaking, deliberate and tireless efforts by operatives of the Nigeria Police working in collaboration with their counterparts from the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Airforce is aimed at bringing to justice persons responsible for the emerging trend of attacks on security personnel and wanton destruction of security facilities and operational assets.



The suspects - Ugochukwu Samuel a.k.a Biggy, 28-year-old native of Arochukwu LGA in Abia State; Raphael Idang, 31-year-old native of Odukpani LGA of Cross River state; Cletus Nwachukwu Egole aka ‘Alewa’, 60-years-old native of Orlu in Imo State; Michael Uba, 33yrs from Imo State; and twelve (12) others in the course of investigation, were implicated in multiple felonies committed across several states in the South-Eastern part of the Federation. The suspects were arrested in various parts of the country following sustained, and intelligence-driven sting operations.



Police investigations clearly established and linked the suspects to several incidents of attacks and murder of security personnel as well as stealing, unlawful possession of firearms, arson and malicious damage to operational assets of military and law enforcement agents.



Specifically, investigations revealed that the duo of Ugochukwu Samuel aka Biggy and Raphael Idang were among the criminal elements that attacked policemen on duty at a checkpoint on 24th December, 2020 along Orlu-Ihiala Road in Imo state where two police officers were killed and a Police Hilux patrol van set ablaze. In addition, both were part of a larger group that attacked a police reconnaissance team on 13th January, 2021 killing one police officer. Ugochukwu Samuel a.k.a Biggy, who sustained a bullet wound during an attack by his gang on a military convoy in which some soldiers were killed and weapons carted away, was subsequently arrested while receiving treatment in a hospital. Both suspects confessed to being active of IPOB and ESN.



Cletus Nwachukwu Egole aka Alewa, a pastor with the Holy Blessed Trinity Sabbath Church, Orlu, Imo State and Michael Uba, a prophet with the Association of Jewish Faith, who were also arrested, are two of the masterminds of the various attacks on security personnel, in addition to providing spiritual cover for the gang. Cletus Nwachukwu Egole aka Alewa’s house was used by the gang to plan their nefarious operations. He also donated his late brother’s farmland for use as a hideout and training camp for the gang.



A total of nine (9) AK47 rifles, five (5) other sophisticated firearms, seventeen (17) AK47 Magazines, 549 AK47 live ammunition, 10 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), camouflage bullet proof vests, walkie talkies and other incriminating items were recovered from the suspects.



Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police, IGP M.A Adamu, NPM, mni has reiterated that the Force will not tolerate any further attack on its personnel or any citizen by any individual or group under any guise whatsoever. He assures that Law Enforcement Agents have gathered sufficient intelligence on the attackers and are clo on scores of suspects already implicated in the attacks either directly or indirectly for financing, aiding and abetting the criminals. He stresses that no murderer will go unpunished. The IGP ens parents/guardians as well as traditional/opinion leaders to weigh in and prevail on their children/wards to desist from towing the destructive paths of crime.



All the suspects will be charged to court on conclusion of investigations.


FRANK MBA

FORCE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER

FORCE HEADQUARTERS

ABUJA

ALLEGED RIFT BETWEEN PRESIDENT BUHARI AND TINUBU; HANDIWORK OF CYNICS

The Presidency wishes to make it clear that there is no rift between President Muhammadu Buhari and his strong ally, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The President and the Asiwaju have a very strong commitment to the All Progressives Congress, APC towards bringing CHANGE and this is a commitment they have made to the Nigerian people.

Recent reports of a rift between the two leaders of our party are false; the handiwork of some media mischief makers.

It is quite unfortunate that certain sections of the media feed on birthing controversies, providing a nexus for naysayers who work behind the scenes planting such stories which are absolutely false.

This istration is aware of pessimists and cynics who willfully spread misinformation to create doubts in the minds of the people about the relationship between its leaders and whether the party will remain intact or not. There is no doubt that the President and the party are focused on development, peace and security, restructuring of the economy and war against corruption in the country and will not be diverted to anything else. This desperate attempt to fool the people will not succeed.

To President Buhari, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu remains one of the most respected political leaders in the country who has stuck to his principles in the face of all adversities. He was instrumental to the formation, growth and development of the APC into a formidable political party and the political alliance is waxing even stronger.

If the Asiwaju is not a frequent face in the Aso Rock Villa, it is on of the fact that he is not a cabinet member of this government. The fact that he is not every day around the Villa does not make him less of a friend to the President and this istration.

Garba Shehu
Senior Special Assistant to the President
(Media & Publicity)
March 24, 2021

NIGERIA RESTRUCTURING BILL CONCLUDED READY FOR RATIFICATION:

Below is the kite being flown by the Federal Government on Restructuring

Nigerian Economic Restructuring Bill 2021

[1] Nigeria will be made up of 42 states, with seven per each of her constituent geo-political zone. These shall be:

South-south
[1] Bayelsa State - Yenagoa
[2] Western Ijaw State - Patani
[3] Rivers State - Port Harcourt
[4] Cross River State - Calabar
[5] Akwa Ibom State - Uyo
[6] Edo State - Benin
[7] Delta State - Warri

Northeast
[1] Mambilla State - Gashaka
[2] Taraba State - Jalingo
[3] Adamawa State - Yola
[4] Borno State - Maiduguri
[5] Yobe State - Damaturu
[6] Bauchi State - Bauchi
[7] Gombe State - Gombe

Southeast
[1] Anioma State - Asaba
[2] Orashi State - Omoku
[3] Anambra State - Awka
[4] Imo State - Owerri
[5] Enugu State - Enugu
[6] Abia State - Umuahia
[7] Ebonyi State - Abakaliki

North-Central
[1] Abuja State - Abuja
[2] Gurara State - Kafanchan
[3] Benue State - Makurdi
[4] Plateau State - Jos
[5] Nasarawa State - Lafia
[6] Kogi State - Lokoja
[7] Niger State - Minna

Southwest
[1] Kwara State - Ilorin
[2] Oyo State - Ibadan
[3] Ogun State - Abeokuta
[4] Lagos State - Ikeja
[5] Ondo - Akure
[6] Ekiti - Ado-Ekiti
[7] Osun - Oshogbo

Northwest
[1] Sokoto State - Sokoto
[2] Kebbi State - Birnin Kebbi
[3] Kaduna State - Kaduna
[4] Katsina State - Katsina
[5] Kano State - Kano
[6] Jigawa State - Dutse
[7] Zamfara State - Gusua

[2] Each state will be responsible for creating and funding its local governments as it deems fit. Local governments will be funded internally by the charging of a local tax, which will be augmented by a state grant representing no more than 10% of TV
[3] Over a 35 year period, we gradually migrate back to the 1957/58 revenue sharing formula agreed by our founding fathers at the Lancaster House Conferences in London under which the federating units will control all the resources within their domains and remit 50% to the centre

[4] Our federating units will keep 50% of all the revenue that they generate, put a further 20% into a central pot called the Excess Federation to which everyone can have access as the need arises, 10% will go into a geo-political zone and the remaining 20% will go to into the Federation used to run the federal government

[5] With regards to all other resources, we shall move towards this immediately but in the case of oil and gas, the move will have to be gradual due to how dependent we have become on these two resources. A gradual migration shall take place over the next 35 years in this manner: 2000 - 13%, 2021 - 18%, 2023 - 20%, 2025 - 25%, 2030 - 30%, 2035 - 35%, 2040 - 40%, 2045 - 45%, 2050 - 50%

[6] Every one of our 42 states will be set a target of generating at least $2bn in export revenue. Any state government that attracts inward investment to the tune of $1bn, will get a corresponding grant from the federal government

[7] Any state that fails to generate as much revenue as it spends for two consecutive years as from 2020, will be subject to an immediate declaration of a state of emergency. It shall be istered centrally by the federal government until its books are balanced

[8] Every state must seek to generate at least 30% of its internal revenue from manufacturing and services, with a migration away from primary products to value added production

[9] Every state is free to create more local governments provided they meet the necessary criteria which includes holding a referendum and the fact that the local government area is self-sustaining. To be recognised as a local government area, basic facilities that must exist within the domain include 20 primary schools, five secondary schools, a local government headquarters, at least one vocational training college and at least one public health centre

[10] All local and state governments will as a matter of course award supply contracts to companies that manufacture products within Nigeria. Only as a last resort will companies that manufacture products abroad be granted government contract.

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Inside Late Mai Deribe's Gold Marble House In Maiduguri, Borno state Nigeria.

LATE ALHAJI MAI DERIBE Was A Famed Billionaire of Borno, Who built Gold-marble house In Maiduguri and Customized (owned) A Gulfstream G550 Model Of private jet in 80s.

Late Deribe was extremely wealthy is a fact and even more factual is his action of dazzling others with his luxurious wealth. And many other Nigerians him more for the trappings of his wealth. In the 1980s, he was one of the very few people on earth who were cruising around in the newly-released Gulfstream G550 private jet.

It is believed that he was among the first 12 people to purchase the customized version of this jet in the early 1980s, putting him in the same league with Yoshiaki Tsutsumi of Japan who was the richest man in the world at that time and other billionaires like Khalid Ibn Mahfouz of Saudi Arabia and Robert Edward ‘Ted’ Turner, the owner of CNN.

-There is also the Deribe Palace (Gidan Deribe) in Maiduguri, the state capital. Sprawling and vast, the building’s majesty was enough to impress the late Princess Diana and her husband, Prince Charles, King Juan Carlos I of Spain who stayed in the palace for two days in 1986 (the Spanish king was said to have been amazed with such opulence right in the middle of a vast desert) and even a son of an American President (George Bush would later become the US President himself), all of whom were hosted in the gold-marble building which was so exquisite that its commissioning was done by military president, General Ibrahim Babangida. IBB was also a guest at the palace, while another high-profile guest is a retired army general, Muhammad Saad Abubakar, now the Sultan of Sokoto.

Many Nigerians were flabbergasted at the majesty of the Deribe Palace when Ovation magazine did a feature on the man and his wealth in early 2000.

How much did the palace cost him? Just $100 million. And cleaning his house was said to have cost N5million per month. This is what Dele Momodu, the publisher of Ovation has to say on the Mai Deribe piece, which he said was one of the most memorable

for his company:
After that, I think the Mai Deribe in Maidugri. I also flew in Colin Ramsey from London to do p the photography for us and this is a man who has photographed Imelda Marcos (former First Lady
of the Philippines) and all the top stars.

MAI DERIBE THE PHILANTHROPIST...

Mai Deribe was known and is still revered by the people of Borno for his charitable activities while alive. He pumped money into various ends, and these include:

-Construction of the Deribe Central Mosque, Old Maiduguri, Jere Local Government, Borno. It was commissioned by General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.

-In the early 1980s, Mai Deribe upon returning from overseas (most probably the US or the UK) came with gifts of ultramodern gadgets and equipment for the staff of NTA Maiduguri. NTA is the Nigerian Television Authority. The gadgets were so advanced that it took the staff two years to master it, even after inviting their seniors from NTA Channel2, Victoria Island, Lagos.

-On the 1 st of January, 1987, Mai Deribe gave a sum of N5million naira to the Maiduguri Central Mosque on behalf of his family and that of his brother, late Alhaji Kuli Deribe.

-His neighbours were the people of Fezzan and Old Maiduguri, and they also benefitted from his largesse, he sent money and food to them, one bag of millet per family every month of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.

-Construction of the Bulumkutu Central Mosque, Borno, the Aminu Deribe Mosque, the Doggon Masalanchi in the Fezzan Ward of Maiduguri, Deribe Hotel Mosque, School Mosque, Government College, Maiduguri and Fillin Polo Mosque, Airport Mosque. This is in addition to 27 smaller mosques all across the country. In total, he erected 78mosques.

-Deribe Arabic and Islamic Schools.

-For 44 years, Mai Deribe sponsored people to the hajj, the Muslim holy pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Atimes, he would ferry the pilgrims in his own Gulfstream private jet.

-Deribe Hospital along Bulumkutu Road. It was commissioned by iral Augustus Aikhomu, the-then Chief of General Staff, the second-in command to General Babangida.

-Construction of the Baga Road Central Market and Shopping Complex.

-In the mid-1980s, Alhaji Mai Deribe dropped the sum of $1million for oil prospectors looking for crude oil deposits in the Gajiganna and Kukawa areas of Bornu State.

Some geophysicists believe that there is a considerable quantity of oil in the Nigerian part of the Chad Basin and that is quite feasible as the Chadians have already started drilling oil in their own part of the basin.

In a recent NTA programme hosted by the suave Cyril Stober, Governor Kashim Shettima said the Federal Government of Nigeria is the one stalling progress on the exploration of crude oil in the Chad Basin.

-Mai Deribe’s company, Preussag Drilling Company, built and donated more than 60 boreholes in rural districts across Borno and Yobe State.

-Mai Deribe sponsored numerous indigent students from Borno State to study abroad, giving them scholarships to England where some of them stayed at his palatial residence in Gloucester, London.

-Mai Deribe was regarded as a patriarch for the people ofvBorno State and that explains why his people ran into his open arms at various occasions. During the devastating flood disaster in September 1994, thousands of displaced residents camped at his house where they were catered to. Although he was not in the country when the flood happened, he sent a sum of 135million naira (about $375,000) to the Borno State government to assist them with the relief efforts to purchase food items, shelter materials and other accessories for them.

May His Soul Rest In Perfect Peace

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Rabi'atu S. Tijjani
M Nasiru

Seriously this man is saying the truth Asari Dokubi Is more fearless than that Albino Nnamdi kanu. He means action and the FG should not take his statement with kidgloves

Hard facts.
Everyone talk about Benin bronzes. Have u asked where they got the materials?..are there copper deposits in Benin today ? was there any copper refining company in Benin in 15th century?..How did they filter and process the copper to produce the bronzes?..if you've ever thought of that, then you are reasoning well..lets answer the question. Benin claim to have fought 200 battle, have u asked who they fought?.
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Benin was very hostile to there neighbours,especially with the coming of the Portuguese in 15th century which brought about proliferation of light arms .this made alot of people to run from within and around the vicinity of Benin. Igbos close to Benin suffered the most.igbanke, Agbor etc were haunted and kidnapped for slavery. Those slaves were sold to Portuguese in exchange for manilla which Benin melted (dissolved) and used for bronze making. manilla is already processed in Portugal so all it just needs is to melt and reshape it..so every Benin bronze you see represent slaves sold in cold blood, some killed in the process.othere were used for ritual purposes. Infact igbanke( Igbontor) all igbo speaking communities in Benin was called slave camp. Igbon according to Benin means slave.this is what igbos who have lived close to Benin suffered. It was many of these reasons that made igbos to flee from that vicinity, returning back to east (Onitsha and the rest)..many of these igbo communities fought back ,like agbor and Ubulu-Ukwu. Even down to igbuzor (ibusa) have many recorded wars with Benin.Agbor is the only igbo community that could withstand Benin/Portuguese military might because its there closest neighbour. Kingship monarchy were also forcefully installed in some of those Anioma igbo communities you see today carrying Ada and Eben which was not originally there.Many other people suffered same problems too.some Yoruba within that vicinity were also victims of slavery and Urhobo. Infact Urhobo was a best choice for slavery by Benin people. Unfortunately history is being revised, many of these communities there ancestors were victims of Benin slavery are same people erroneously claiming to have migrated from Benin.
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In conclusion. When you see Benin bronzes, they represent ancestors crying for vengeance, killed and brutally taken away from there homes.All those claiming Benin descendants were actually those running for there lifes away from the vicinity of Benin.