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A Cigarette smoker without money can leave
his house with faith that when He gets to
the joint his friends will buy for him and for
sure even without begging, his friends will
say guy take one stick. That's Love.
A guy who loves beer without money can
leave his house to a beer parlour with faith
that his gang members will buy for him and
for sure even without asking, his friends will
say guy take one bottle. That's love.
But can a hungry/jobless person leave his
house to a religious organisation with faith
that someone will give him money to come
and eat
Where is the love that we preach everyday?
Have you bothered to ask a member of your
church.religious organisations how life is
treating them? People go through a lot and
only few will voice out.
Someone will sow 1million naira seed in a
religious gathering but beg him for 1k out
side he will say no money.
This is why it's easy for the devil to confuse
young minds to join bad gang because they
even show love more than most people that
preach love.
We the religious people really have to step
up and start practising this love that we
preach. I hope that I am communicating?

A Cigarette smoker without money can leave
his house with faith that when He gets to
the joint his friends will buy for him and for
sure even without begging, his friends will
say guy take one stick. That's Love.
A guy who loves beer without money can
leave his house to a beer parlour with faith
that his gang members will buy for him and
for sure even without asking, his friends will
say guy take one bottle. That's love.
But can a hungry/jobless person leave his
house to a religious organisation with faith
that someone will give him money to come
and eat
Where is the love that we preach everyday?
Have you bothered to ask a member of your
church.religious organisations how life is
treating them? People go through a lot and
only few will voice out.
Someone will sow 1million naira seed in a
religious gathering but beg him for 1k out
side he will say no money.
This is why it's easy for the devil to confuse
young minds to join bad gang because they
even show love more than most people that
preach love.
We the religious people really have to step
up and start practising this love that we
preach. I hope that I am communicating?

MNDY:
Terrorism has not reached this level anywhere else in Africa. The military needs a major shakeup. Sack service chiefs. These terrorists will subdue government if care is not taken fa. Military commanders and officers of the military are being killed by these guys on a daily. What type of leadership is Buhari taking this country on for Christ sake?!

Haven't you heard of Al Shabab? They are the poster boy for this bokites, they have ruined Somalia since 25yrs ago

genius43:
If you deleted your contact when data is off when data comes of and it refreshes it will return. I hope you get the drift.

Ok sir. Thanks

A former NBA president for that matter....

genius43:
Sync.

Pls explain, I don't get

genius43:
...

Complement boss. Whenever I delete numbers they keep coming back,dunno why....any trick?

Smooyis:
I thought arsenal defeated them last week.

Not with their first 11...

Leicester play good football

Pls take down this pics...puks

ipica:
Sometimes, you just sit and ask ur self, what am I doing here. Sometimes, it's like the laws of the universe don't apply here sef. Evil is rewarded with good and vice versa, honesty doesn't pay. Just do the opposite of what is right and progress personally at the expense of everyone else. I jus tire sef

No be only you brother, I don overstretche my brain tire, but always hopeful

Home and dry, watching free flowing Leicester...

This nigga is going but by the day

45 Years On The Throne

Published on
11 February 2020

ALHAJI SHEHU IDRIS,EMIR OF ZAZZAU,MAHMUD JEGA

By Mahmud Jega –

VIPs from all over the North, from across the country and from abroad congregated in Zaria at the weekend to felicitate with the Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Shehu Idris, who marked 45 years on the throne. He is the longest reigning monarch in the history of the very old Zazzau throne, and his reign has been long, mostly peaceful, sometimes turbulent and very eventful.
A traditional ruler’s throne is the most enigmatic public office in Nigeria. Although it is not mentioned anywhere in the voluminous 1999 Constitution, it receives great deference from people whose public offices received elaborate constitutional mention. The throne has no term limits; it is the only public office in Nigeria which has a life tenure. Compare that to military service chiefs, who some people are saying have overstayed after only five years in office. Think of permanent secretaries and directors, who must retire after 35 years in service, 60 years of age or even eight years on the same job. Think of ministers and commissioners, who live from one cabinet reshuffle to another; senators and Reps, who live from one election circle to another, with no tenure limit but with an 80% casualty rate in every election; as well as governors and president, who must serve a maximum of eight years.
Forty five years on the throne is one of the longest reigns for current Northern emirs and chiefs. In comparison, the Sultan has been on the throne for 13 years; Shehu of Borno for 11; Emir of Gwandu for 14; Emir of Kano for 5; Emir of Katsina for 11; Aku Uka of Wukari for 42; Etsu Nupe for 16; Tor Tiv for 2; Lamido of Adamawa for 9; Emir of Bauchi for 9; Emir of Ilorin for 24; Sarkin Zazzau Suleja for 20; Attah Igala for 7 years. Only Emir of Kontagora Alhaji Sa’idu Namaska has been on the throne longer, for 46 years.
Some Northern emirs and chiefs from an earlier era reigned for longer periods. Among the longest reigning monarchs of modern times, Sultan Abubakar III reigned for 50 years; Emir of Kano Ado Bayero for 51 years; Emir Muhammadu Bashar of Daura for 41 years; Lamido Adamawa Aliyu Mustapha for 57; Attah of Igala Aliyu Obaje for 56 and Chief of Kagoro Malam Gwamna Awan for 63 years. Sarkin Katagum Muhammadu Kabir reigned for 37 years; Emir of Lafia Mustafa Agwai reigned for 43 years and Bashar’s grandfather, Emir of Daura Abdurrahman, reigned from 1911 to 1966.
Unlike other public officers, an emir is never transferred. He gets no promotion, though some thrones are upgraded to second or first class. Emirs do not reshuffle their councils, though some title holders could get promoted to a higher title. Alhaji Shehu Idris was a young man of 39 when he became Emir of Zazzau in February 1975. His was little known outside Zaria, unlike in the modern day when Army Generals, Police DIGs, a Customs Controller General, a former CBN governor, a Supreme Court judge, an Appeals Court judge and even a former governor with well-known names become emirs and chiefs.
Men who become traditional rulers from rigid careers such as the army take some time to adjust. In November 2006 when Brigadier General Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar was appointed Sultan of Sokoto, the Army Chief General Martins Luther Agwai was out of the country. As soon he returned, he went to Sokoto to congratulate his former officer. The new Sultan, only days old on the throne, sprang to his feet when the Army Chief walked in, much to the annoyance of old palace courtiers. In 1993 when, as a reporter for Citizen magazine I visited the newly installed Emir of Suleja Malam Auwal Ibrahim, I wrote in my story that “for a man who once sat on a governor’s chair, the Suleja emir’s throne, made up of a mat surrounded by a few traditional pillows, did not look very inviting.” Yet, Malam Auwal Ibrahim coveted it all his life, so there must be something to it.
So did Major General Muhammadu Iliya Basharu, an Army General, former GOC of the Army’s 2 Division and two-time military governor of old Gongola State. Several times in the 1990s when I visited him in his Kaduna home, the subjects that interested him the most was traditional leadership, the difference between political rulers and traditional leaders, and how the two terms were often mixed up.
For people in the North, nothing popularized Sarkin Zazzau Shehu Idris quite like the praise song in his honour by the late Alhaji Mamman Shata. Shata used the catchiest of phrases, idioms and picturesque allusions to describe Shehu Idris, including baobab tree that adorns a town; bull elephant that defies all traps; buffalo, the cow on the loose; roan antelope that does not suffer confusion because of an archer; and the camel among emirs.
Alhaji Shehu Idris was appointed to the throne by the military governor Brigadier Abba Kyari in 1975. Since then, he has reigned alongside 20 governors, nine of them civilians, eleven of them soldiers. They included Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, the most radical civilian governor ever produced in Nigeria, and Major Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, who The Economist of London described at the time of his appointment as “a young leftist Major.” Alhaji Shehu Idris survived all of them and was never threatened with deposition or even issued a query, as far as the public knows.
In Zaria, there is cut-throat competition for the throne among its three great ruling houses, the Barebari, Mallawa and Shehu Idris’ Katsinawa. To their credit, these ruling houses keep their competition below the radar and it hardly bursts into the open, thanks to Alhaji Shehu Idris’ adroit balancing act which preserves each ruling house’s titles and privileges. Inter-marriage among them also helps to ease the competition.
During Shehu Idris’ reign, the state’s name changed from North Central to Kaduna State. Katsina State also split from Kaduna State in 1987. While this removed the fierce rivalry between Katsina and Zazzau, it replaced it with political and sometimes physical conflict between southern and northern Kaduna State. Northern versus Southern Kaduna dichotomy often resulted in ugly sectarian riots. The worst ones were the Kafanchan riot of 1987, two rounds of Zangon Kataf riots in 1992, two Shari’a riots of 2000 AD as well as the post-election riots of 2011 and 2012. Rivalry and conflict also persist in politics and in public service appointments.
Emir Shehu Idris did what he could, behind the scenes and sometimes in front of the scenes, to curb the violence. In 2001, we reported in New Nigerian that the emir personally rushed to the scene when he heard that youths at Tudun Wada area were about to start a riot. The boys took to their heels when they saw the emir, even though he was escorted by only a few unarmed traditional bodyguards.
During his reign, many chiefdoms were excised from Zazzau Emirate to become independent. Following one such exercise in 2001, some Muslim areas also agitated to become independent emirates but Governor Ahmed Makarfi told me in his office at that time that while he understood the agitation by minority, non-Muslim areas for traditional autonomy, he will not agree to excise any Muslim area from Zazzau Emirate.
The longevity, stability, restraint, non-involvement in politics, wisdom and studious avoidance of controversy by emirs such as Alhaji Shehu Idris greatly aided the durability and respectability of traditional thrones in the North. In the years that Idris has been on the throne, a Sultan was deposed; emirs were deposed in Gwandu, Muri, Agaie, Bade and Suleja; an Etsu Nupe was deposed and many lesser chiefs were deposed all over the North. Surviving on the throne for 45 is a great feat. May Alhaji Shehu Idris reign for many more years in peace and in good health.

Jega is Daily Trust Columnist

TimeManager:
Are we sick in this country?. You're elected into office, paid with public funds, with the perks of office so as to provide fundamental solutions to social-economic challenges but all they could do is reward bandits & terrorists with public resources while hardworking Nigerians bear the burden of government failures. My people, do we really have a country?

kiss the truth!

You raised a very cogent point...we are indeed sick collectively, there's nothing like Nigeria cos it lacks soul it's like a pot where all manner of scavengers come to dish whatever they want. Just because Niger Delta youth were given amnesty, buhari in his usual parochial way did same for his kins to balance the equation...a very senseless move.

Emmypure:
is it through honey that otedola make money to buy fuel for cuppy?
alaye double your huustle

Guy you bad ooo... .. my man is taking it one step at a time.

She look good

Funny name

What happened to AMCON?

humilitypays:
Nigerian women and in fact black women are wicked.

Just look at how rich Nigerian men take care of Nigerian actresses, models, OAPs and even beautiful female students.....but take a look at our actors, male models and handsome male students, ordinary gala them no see from rich Nigerian ladies, instead rich Nigerian ladies are still busy doing everything humanly and spiritually possible to trap a rich guy on top their own riches, honestly our ladies are so wicked, it is useless giving wealth to Nigerian women cos it will never circulate, but give the same wealth in the hands of a Nigerian woman to a Nigerian man and watch millions of people smile; from female students to actresses to models, to female bankers to female marketers to their relatives, wives, concubines and people on the street will feel the impact of wealth in the hands of a Nigerian man.


Give same wealth to a Nigerian woman; she will hate her broke husband or boyfriend and start to shop for a new richer husband or boyfriend...she will distance herself from her siblings, old friends and start to buy unnecessary fashion accessories to attract richer men. Naija women abeg who do una


That is why when I see a Nigerian lady hustling to make money or to become rich, I just shake my head....because even after she makes the money and becomes rich, it is still useless to her family, friends and even to men she knows, but let a man make the money and watch ladies he know smile to bank...his family, girlfriends, wife, etc will all be well catered for

You absolutely right! women are devils, they develop instant hate for men as soon as they come by money.

CodeTemplar:
The story is similar for Cameroon.

Really! Can you narrate more, I see that country as too sleepy.

eagleu:
With killings of sarkin Gobir and Kano, the small Fulani tribe skillfully emasculated the while Hausa tribe over the past 200 years.

Hausa/Fulani unity is like white slave owner with his 100 slaves and descendants living "happily " together.

Time will tell!

The hausas are gone forever cos they haven't any sophisticated culture to fall back to, same as Nupe land, there's hope for Yoruba in Ilorin.

Some of the supporters of All Progressives Congress have again sponsored another song to support the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.


This is coming three days after they released a song titled ‘Babu ruwan Buhari’ meaning ‘It has nothing to do with Buhari’ where they faulted critics for blaming Nigeria's present economic woes on the President.


They said the current hardship in the country was a direct punishment from God to the people of Nigeria for their various sinful acts.

In the new song titled ‘Da Buhari Bai Hau Ba’ meaning ‘If the President is not Buhari’, the President’s supporters said he returned peace to Kano, Katsina and Borno states.

“If the President is not Buhari top government position will not go to Northerners.

“If the President is not Buhari, Kano, Katsina and Borno would have been destoroyed by now.
“If the President is not Buhari, Ganduje and Masari will not be governors again,” the lyrics of the song said.

The lyrics also listed top ministers and government officials from the Northern part of the country appointed because Buhari was President of Nigeria.

Since coming into power as an elected President in 2015, Buhari has embraced nepotism, slotting in Northerners into key positions while largely ignoring other sections of the country.

Observers have condemned this act especially as it negates the Federal Character concept, which aims to promote balance and ensure every section of the country was well represented in government.

http://saharareporters.com/2020/09/06/if-buhari-wasn’t-nigeria’s-president-borno-kano-katsina-would-have-been-destroyed-apc

Maybe for guns not RPGs, the firepower behind the propelling of that machine is potent than any black magic....

Around 1998, this guy was the highest paid Nigeria league player... Rest in peace bro

Abdulhakeem78:
The fight between poverty and me will never end till I return back to my Lord (Aameen). I am an implacable enemy to poverty and its hidden features.

... Big amen bro....

sarrki:
BLESSED WOMAN:

1. She is the daughter of Abdulkadir (late Emir of Ilorin).

2. Wife to Alhaji Ado Bayero (late Emir of Kano).

3. Sister of Ibrahim Sulu Gambari (Present Emir of Ilorin)

4. Mother of Aminu Ado Bayero (Now Emir of Kano)

5. Mother of Nasiru Ado Bayero (Now Emir of Bichi) and finally...

6. Mother in-law to Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II (erstwhile Emir of Kano)

Elder sister to the present chief of staff to the president....she was born lucky

SouthNigerian:
The South is still got the cord in the game, if only they can play it wisely.

The North have recently resorted to Effontary Politics, they play the card into our bare eyes, asking us to dare.

What more evidence does our Leaders need that it's time to wakeup?

The abokis are product of war and warfare, the 200yrs ago jihadist battle still runs in their DNA, they are strategic and decisive for any eventualities. For now the south is a conquered territory.

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