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As reported by Hausa newspaper Rariya, over four hundred people converted to islam in warari area, rijau local government, l niger state over the weekend.
This follows da'awah (calling to Islam) by the 'Initiative For Muslim Women Of Nigeria'. The group also support the convertees with relief materials all under the leadership of malama Rabi'ah Sufyan Ahmad

Former secretary to the Kano state government, Engr Rabi'u Sulaiman Bichi yesterday represented the former kano state governor and current senator Engr. Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso in receiving large number of women into the folder of kwankwasiyya group in kwara state.
The women accept the movement of kwankwasiyya group under the leadership of Engr. Mashood Shittu who is the chairman of the movement in kwara. statehttps://arewaatimes..co.ke/2017/04/many-women-join-kwankwasiyya-movement.html?m=1

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By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter: @farooqkperogi
A version of this article was published in my June 21, 2014 column. It is still relevant today.

The other day I was reflecting on Nigerians’ new favorite pastime: endless griping about the increasingly disabling dysfunction of the country. And I realized that one theme that often stands out when we bewail our present conditions is that we almost always sentimentalize the past.
In other words, many Nigerians find relief from the worries of the present by taking a mental escape to the past.

For instance, when Nigerians bemoan the “indigene/settler” dichotomies in many states of the country, they like to recall, for example, that as far back as 1956, a Fulani man from Sokoto by the name of Malam Umaru Altine was elected the first Mayor of Enugu, the political capital of Eastern Nigeria. His religious and ethnic identity didn’t stand in the way of his election—as it certainly would in contemporary Nigeria.
They also remember that when the late Alhaji Abubakar Rimi was governor of Kano State in the Second Republic, he appointed many non-Kano indigenes, including Christians from the South, as advisers and directors. There are several other examples of inclusiveness from the past that we invoke to deplore the politics of intolerance and exclusivity of the present.

And when Nigerians bemoan the worsening insecurity in the country, especially in the northeast, they never fail to recall that Borno State, the main theater of Boko Haram’s unceasing carnage, used to be so peaceful that its license-plate slogan is “home of peace.” Now, that slogan reads like a cruel joke.
On almost every imaginable subject—infrastructure, electricity, standard of education, tolerance, security, governance, leadership, etc.—our past has become our refuge from the scourge of our present. About the only area that Nigerians don’t look to the past for inspiration is telecommunication. No one looks back to the days of NITEL with nostalgia even in the face of the crappy GSM services that private telecom operates provide now.
I know of no society that valorizes its past, in even the most trivial indices, with as much wistfulness much as Nigeria does. Here in the United States, to give just one example, rather than a sentimental longing for the past, I notice a tendency toward chronocentricity, that is, the notion that the present is superior to anything that preceded it.
For instance, when Americans discuss race relations, they look back at their past with disdain. Even though they are far from achieving racial equality, they all seem to agree that they have come a long way; that every subsequent generation is more racially tolerant and broadminded than the one that anteceded it.
As former President Obama said in one of his speeches, the fact that racial incidents like the Trayvon Martin murder case captured the national imagination and became the subject of intense national debate speaks to the unusualness of such cases and indicates how much progress has been made in race relations.
Although Americans also complain about declining standards in education, it isn’t as much a national obsession as it is in Nigeria. In fact, studies now show that young Americans actually read more print (and—obviously—electronic) books than did previous generations.
In many societies, people say things like “this is the 21 st century, for God’s sake!” to rail against people who are narrow-minded, who are ensconced in their primordial cocoons, who are opposed to progress. Implicit in this utterance is the idea that the current age is an improvement on the previous ones; that history proceeds in a progressive, not recursive, direction. Of course, this is not entirely accurate, but it does capture a certain level of confidence about the present—and optimism about the future.
Nigerians don’t have even this illusory luxury. The past is a lot more comforting than the present and is therefore a better template for the future. But why wouldn’t it be? As a nation we seem to be moving from bad to worse in almost every sphere. At a time when most closed societies are opening up and open societies are becoming even more open, we are becoming more wedded to subnational loyalties than ever before. Citizens of Nigeria habitually get “deported” from parts of the country where they are not considered “indigenes.
Corruption has reached such crushing heights that even former president Goodluck Jonathan said stealing was not corruption, and current President Buhari worries about corruption only when it is committed by his political enemies. His corrupt close associates can do no wrong—unless they fall out of favor with him. And stealing of public money no longer makes headlines news unless it’s in millions or billions of US dollars. What is more, we have become so desensitized to death that unless people die in their hundreds newspaper editors don’t put it on the front page.
Even universities that are called “ivory towers” because of their putative insulation from the reality of everyday life are affected by this national culture of worshiping the past.
University teachers look to the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s to reclaim the idea of the university. I have never heard or read any Nigerian university teacher brag about improvement in scholarship and pedagogy in the universities in the course of the years.
No future can be envisioned out of this depressingly dark present. That is why we glorify and idealize the past. But a country whose past is better than its present in most indices of human development is in a bigger trouble than it realizes. And, most certainly, a country whose future lies in its past has no future.

Scientists in Sweden have built the world’s fastest camera, capable of snapping 5 trillion images per second — that’s an image every 0.2 trillionths of a second.
Last year, scientists in Japan had claimed the fastest camera ever made, with capacity for 4.4 trillion images per second, producing images of resolution 450 x 450 pixels.
The new fastest camera, just like the one the Japanese announced last year, could be employed to observe super fast processes in chemistry, physics, biology and biomedicine.
Swedish researchers used their new record-breaking camera to document photons traversing a distance equivalent to the width of a piece of paper. In reality, the process takes a picosecond — one trillionth, or one millionth of one millionth of a second. Using the camera, researchers can break the process down into an observable action, slowed down by a factor of one trillion.
Instead of capturing one image at a time, the camera records multiple images at once and uses an algorithm to sort them into a film-like sequence after the fact.
The first subjects of the new camera will be natural processes, researchers say.
“This does not apply to all processes in nature, but quite a few, for example, explosions, plasma flashes, turbulent combustion, brain activity in animals and chemical reactions. We are now able to film such extremely short processes,” Elias Kristensson, a researcher at Lund University, said.
“In the long term, the technology can also be used by industry and others.”
Many natural processes are so fast, they are impossible to capture using moving film. The only way to study these processes is by employing still image photography. But the fastest cameras used today capture just 100,000 images per second.
“You then have to attempt to repeat identical experiments to provide several still images which can later be edited into a movie,” Kristensson said. “The problem with this approach is that it is highly unlikely that a process will be identical if you repeat the experiment.”
Researchers described the camera in a new paper published this week in the journal FRAME. Source NANhttps://arewaatimes..co.ke/2017/04/world-fastest-camera-invented-by.html?m=1

North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile, according to the South Korean and US military, defying pressure from the US and the North's main ally, China.
US and South Korean officials said Saturday's test, from an area north of the North Korean capital Pyongyang, appeared to have failed, in what would be a fourth successive unsuccessful missile test since March.
The test came as Rex Tillerson, US secretary of state, gave warning that the UN Security Council that failure to curb North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programmes could lead to "catastrophic consequences".
US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the missile was probably a medium-range weapon known as a KN-17 and appeared to have broken up within minutes of taking off.
South Korea's military said the missile, fired from the Pukchang region in a northeasterly direction, reached an altitude of 71km before disintegrating a few minutes into flight.
Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay, reporting from Seoul, said: "The failed test launch was inland ... possibly it could mean that this was not necessarily new technology and not necessarily a new type of missile that they were testing. Perhaps something they have tested before.
"Obviously, if it is inland, it is going to be launched over potentially populated areas, so there is a certain amount of confidence there, that it is not going to fail, that it is going to fly over those populated areas out to sea before it crashes. It is also possibly a clue that this was a medium-range missile."
The North has been conducting missile and nuclear weapons related activities at an unprecedented rate since the beginning of the year and is believed to have made some progress in developing intermediate-range and submarine-launched missiles.
The launch comes amid high tensions on the Korean Peninsula and warnings from US President Donald Trump's administration that it is running out of patience.
"North Korea disrespected the wishes of China & its highly respected President when it launched, though unsuccessfully, a missile today. Bad!," Trump said in a post on Twitter after the launch
On Friday, the US pushed for tougher sanctions to confront the North Korean threat, piling pressure on China to rein in its ally while warning it was keeping military options "on the table".
But both China and Russia rejected US threat of military force at a meeting of the Security Council on the matter.
Wang Yi, China's foreign minister, told the 15-member council it was not only up to China to solve the North Korean problem.
"The key to solving the nuclear issue on the peninsula does not lie in the hands of the Chinese side," Wang told the council.https://arewaatimes..co.ke/2017/04/despite-us-threat-north-korea-test.html?m=1

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Former Vice- President Atiku Abubakar says Nigeria is currently at a crossroads as poverty , unemployment , inflation, infant mortality and other social vices are on the increase punch report.
He , therefore , called on Nigerians to unite in the demand for true federalism .
Atiku said this while delivering his speech at the formal public presentation of the Daily Stream newspaper in Abuja on Thursday.
He said , “ A huge pall of pessimism hangs over a section of the citizenry, and the ranks of those who harbour real doubt about the future of the country swell by the day .
“ The country is truly at a crossroads, and things are made worse by the cocktail of economic, social and political problems which we have had to contend with , and which add to the abysmally low estimation of our country even by its own citizens . ”
The former Vice - President recalled that life was better in the First Republic because each region was allowed to grow at its own pace while the Federal Government was weaker.
Atiku, however , noted that following the creation of states , the Federal Government became very powerful while the federating units became poor, thereby, deepening poverty among the populace
He added , “ Our beloved country has been in the throes of severe and debilitating social and economic problems . Virtually all the development indices have not been favourable : massive and pervasive poverty , double - digit inflation, unemployment , dwindling foreign exchange receipts , poor GDP growth rates, high infant and maternal mortality , high levels of illiteracy, and millions of school- age children out of school. ”
Atiku said the many problems facing the nation were already threatening the unity and the existence of the country . He , therefore , urged Nigerians to come together to renegotiate the terms of our union .
The former vice- president said no leader could make far -reaching positive changes in the country except the current political structure is changed .
He added , “ To be sure, good leaders do make a difference in the fortunes of countries . However, leaders operate within structural constraints imposed by constitutions , laws and regulations and the local and world economy
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“ But the most germane question we need to ask ourselves is : must we really continue to live together as one country amidst such a pervasive climate of disunity , which is impeding our development?
“ My prompt answer to this is yes, we should remain together because it is the best option , and because we will be stronger, greater , and better in one piece than in pieces. ”
Attempts to get reactions of President Muhammadu Buhari’ s spokesman , Mr . Femi Adesina, did not succeed . He had not responded to an email and an SMS sent to him as of the time of sending this report.https://arewaatimes..co.ke/2017/04/true-federalism-is-answer-to-nigeria.html?m=1

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says he “never said that President Muhammadu Buhari is to work from home henceforth”.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, the minister said the reporting in a section of the media of his post- Federal Executive Council (FEC) briefing that the President is to work from home henceforth is erroneous.
The statement signed by his Special Adviser, Mr Segun Adeyemi, the minister said “the President only decided to work from home today, not that he has decided to work from home henceforth”.
He said the headlines in a section of the media, ”Buhari to now work
from home – Lai Mohammed,” is a misrepresentation of his statement at the briefing.
Quoting verbatim the relevant section of his briefing, Alhaji Mohammed said: ”he (the President) wanted to rest today. .
“He asked the Vice President to preside over TODAY’S meeting.
“In addition, he also asked that all his files be taken home to him and he will be working from home today .” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Channels Television online report of the briefing quoted the minster correctly.
The report on the website of channelstv.com has the headline “Buhari to work from home today”
The report quoted the minister: “The President sent a word that he wanted to rest today and asked the Vice President to preside over today’s meeting.
“The president also asked that all his files be taken home to him and will be working from home today”.https://arewaatimes..co.ke/2017/04/i-never-said-buhari-will-be-working.html?m=1

Igbos are just too emotional. They are controlled by emotions. Kemi Omololu Olunloyo a Yoruba woman capitalized on their emotions ,they all hailed her, praised her, they gave her a name Nkem Biafra, eventually she dumped their ass.
Femi Fani Kayode maligned their race, abused them, he told us how he banged the wife of their war hero Ojukwu, but still he capitalized on their emotions, they all sang his praises again, defended him more than the Yoruba's
Fayose is doing the same thing, was in court yesterday with a Red Cap, capitalizing on their emotions, using them to divert attention from his poor performance, they all come here to defend him. Eventually Fayose will dump them.
What igbos fail to understand is that these people are first Yoruba men before anything. Femi fani kayode and Fayose are not interested in your Biafra, they just talk about Biafra because they have noticed thats the only way they can use to control you and that's how to bring PDP into power. Their ultimate aim is PDP's return to power.
Kwankwaso has a along desire to be President, he presently believe that if not for Buhari, he should have been Nigeria President today. Kwankwaso is rumoured to have signed one of Kanu bail conditions. Why?? he wants to cash on their emotions as well. Very soon the chant of Kwankwaso for President will soon surface on their timeline.
Ikweremadu needed their emotions, so he wore an Igbo traditional attire to court trial because he needed them to beat the drum of igbo persecution on his behalf.. As expected our Igbo brothers didn't fail, they all cried on Twitter and Facebook at the mere sight of their son Ekweremadu in that attire.
Such things can't work in other part of the country, the Southwest are not controlled by emotions be it Religion or Ethnicity, that's the reason why you can't predict a Yoruba man. A Hausa man can be swayed religiously but other things he thinks before he act. Igbos are easily predictable and very weak emotionally.

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