Deltafirstson:


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/05/low-purchasing-power-nigerians-go-for-swapping-as-prices-of-mobile-phones-rise/

This has been a practice in the Northern region for a long time (kankara).

GreatVocalist:
Most people are really terrible and opportunistic.

I'm presently in this phase of life at the moment. Friends don't belief me that am managing to survive. I had to change environment afterwards (with my family) so as to get close to my relative that could help out. My brother, life is not always a bed of roses at all. Several bad thoughts linger in my head, but thank God for my wife, siblings.

I've got properties to sell off but the bidding is just far below my expectation. Thank God for the achievement so far (even though have sold off some propertie). However, am of the great belief that almighty GOD would pave a way as though time don't last, but though people do.

My people, let's always be in touch with friends going through difficult times(even if you have the money to offer them). Depression is real oh, may God in his infinite mercy pave a way for everyone going through this trying times in this economy harship.

Thank God I got to hear the news on this thread early this morning. As such, I didn't mind filling my tank where there was so much queue @Naiabawa (A.A RANO Zaria road) at the the old rate of #540(though I queued for almost an hour) that I had to fil up my tank this afternoon.
Thanks to Nairaland for the fast info.

Good morning house,

Can anyone based in Kano confirm if the regular monthly sanitation would hold in Kano metropolitan areas this morning?
Just need to know ASAP because I have an appointment by 7:00am this morning and I remembered that the state government do cancel such when Sallah is around the corner.

Thanks in anticipation as I wait to read your response(s) in the comment section.

Obinoscopy:
https://twitter.com/instablog9ja/status/1671948761990397976?t=JJ3HQWr_LmCWboU4O06iKQ&s=19

Seems easy but it's not. The answer is not what you might think it is.

11:55am

27k, that was in 2008 while working as a civil servant in Lagos state.

Pls I need radio code for Mercedes Benz C180.

Kano is a commercial and religious state. I'm yoruba by tribe, have been living in kano with my family for 9years now(though work brought me here from lagos), and have never had any issue with any native of this town simply because I mind my business. Sincerely, life is less stressful here and menial jobs abounds. I wish you the very best in your next move. Just remain prayerful, conscious and resilient.

@GayPontiff, why this kinda lie, am based here in Naibawa and presently build my house at the moment. so, where do you get this report abeg

NGA0-RSA1

I have such experience before now (even though am a male) simply because I became a father at a young age. Anyway, its all a bygone story now.
Am based in kano, kindly reach me on 080652223915 if you care.

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gwales:
smokers in kano "This society is not a very friendly place," says Dr Ekpein Appah, a camp co-ordinator at the Kano Reformatory Institute in Kiru, Nigeria. "This place can be like a jungle. You have to fight to survive and that fight for survival is what is driving young people to drugs."
Thirty-seven percent of the population in Kano State, an area in northwest Nigeria, are drug abusers according to official figures from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). This is the highest figure nationwide. Nigeria's second largest city also has the highest number of people arrested for illicit drug trafficking or drug use. On September 9, a drug rehabilitation centre was opened in Kano for drug addicts. "The Kano state government realised the idea of arresting drug abusers and sending them to jail doesn't work. They just get stuck in a cycle and come back to harm society when they are released. Why not reform them?” says Appah.
"The drug abusers are brought into the institute for 60 days where they undergo three major components of our training programme: Medicals, which comprise of screening and detoxification, counselling and finally skills acquisition. There is no work, schools and universities are closed or over crowded. These are all children minus a few. Something is wrong somewhere".
Historically, Kano State was a very different place to what is today. Nigeria's ancient kingdom was once the greatest commercial power in West Africa and a bustling trade centre. Its leather and cotton goods were widely transported across the Sahara to North Africa and Europe and for centuries merchants from neighbouring African countries and beyond traded in gold, ivory and salt. In recent times, Kano was the second largest industrial centre in Nigeria and the largest in Northern Nigeria.
Then Boko Haram entered the scene. After the introduction of Sharia in the year 2000 many non-Muslims and traders left the city. Then on January 21, 2012, Kano witnessed one of the worst attacks of terrorism in Nigeria's history: One hundred seventy-eight people were killed in a series of coordinated bomb blasts and shooting sprees. The streets are now quiet in Kano. Nigeria's vast metropolis which once boasted wide paved highways bustling with cars, buses and businessmen is now deserted.
Dusty alleyways filled with kids smoking Indian hemp are common. In the years since the insecurity began, residents have seen a dramatic change to their surroundings. Now children are out of school and unemployment is high.
Drug use and unemployment
"The reason why we are using drugs is to enjoy our lives", says Abdullahi, 28, staring out from behind the chipped blue metal bars of a holding cell in the NDLEA headquarters. The stench of human faeces, sweat and urine fills the air. Dozens of young men, both addicts and sellers, are locked away in a cramped windowless black hole while they await trial. The stone walls that keep them enclosed are covered in Hausa and Arabic graffiti, the prisoners make their mark by scratching their names and prayers with broken rocks.
Abdullahi, like most of the young men here, was a petty drug user. He told Al Jazeera, "I have been smoking cannabis for 6 years. When I took it, I used to feel free. I used to feel happy in my mind. The reason why I started smoking is because I wasn't employed. I had nothing to do. I was just moving around my area with friends. Some of us were selling petroleum to try and make some money but the police would stop us. We are the sons of poor people here. Our parents don't have enough money to pay for us to go to school or take us to market where they will teach us how to trade. There are drug sellers everywhere in the city. So many people are using drugs. Old guys, young boys. They are all using it because there is nothing to do here. So we thought it must be good. That is why we started”.
The NDLEA in Kano state have the most difficult region to monitor in all Nigeria, according to the state commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Amadu Garba, told Al Jazeera, "The problem of drug abuse is a very serious one in Kano. Statistics show nationwide that Kano has a significantly higher number of people arrested than in any other part of the country. The number of people convicted is higher compared to the rest of the country and we have a high rate of seizures made by the command. This attests to the fact we have a serious drug problem in this state."
Prison
Official figures from the NDLEA show they made 700 arrests last year. Most of the arrests were made in relation to cannabis. Three tonnes of marijuana were taken off the streets of Kano this year, down from 4 tonnes last year. But other drugs such as cocaine, heroin and psychotropics are also found in raids. 3000kg of drugs were confiscated during busts and a conviction can land sellers with a 25 year to life prison sentence.
The front of the NDLEA jail [Ashionye Ogene/Al Jazeera
"Some of the greatest challenges we have here are that of personnel and logistics, but we have teamed up with the Nigerian police, the department of state security, customs, immigration and Hisbah to fight drug abuse and trafficking in Kano. So far it has been good because we have been able to dislodge some of the most notorious joints in Kano. The places that used to be hideouts or serious dens are no longer there. They haven't disappeared completely. We're still carrying out raids but we're making it difficult for sellers," Garba said.
The reform centre in Kiru has helped ease the strain on the NDLEA resources according to Garba.
"Users are taken to Kiru for a comprehensive counselling and rehabilitation process that will seriously reduce the problem for the NDLEA. There is a holistic approach to the drug problem more than ever before and I am hopeful this will bring it down”.
Whether the reform centre will have any real impact on the drug problem in Kano is too early to be seen, but it is a start at least and perhaps a model for what should and can be done.
Abdul, 19, who has recently graduated from the reform centre says, "If my parents hadn't brought me here I don't know what would have happened to me. I probably would have lost my mind or been dead. I was taking marijuana, codeine syrup, pills and solvents to calm myself down. I didn't feel like there was a future for me. Many young people are taking drugs here because of unemployment, poverty and the insecurity. We want to forget what is going on around us."
When Abdul was asked what he would do now that he had graduated, he shrugged. "As of now I'm not doing anything. I'm still unemployed".
For residents of Kano, drugs are not the
biggest problem they have to contend with. Unemployment, insecurity and poverty remain the root causes of drug abuse. Until these problems can be resolved, for many in Kano the hope of finding a job and a better future remains a distant one.
Source: Al Jazeera

@Gwale, u av done so well and killed the post. It shows you have a good understanding of the ancient Kano city. I once said the OP doesnt know kano, but pple taught I was tryna digress from the storyline.
Go to Sabongari, yorub road, niger road and see young boys that looks like "mai shara"as they get high on sniffing solution in pure water sachets. To furthermore, places like sanni-giwa, abedie are hoods where these youths progress as they get older. Street urchins goes around smoking, drinking around (including females). The most surprising part of it was when I saw a guy and young lady having sex along the gutter side on an afternoon, all in the name of being high on skink on whatever.
Police has never helped issues because they are always there to collect there own share of the drug money, instead of instilling sanity on these streets.
These actions keeps me wondering if I can ever live in that area because children upbringing is not encouraged, I just go there, take my chilled bottle of beer on Enugu road and find my way back to Naibawa.
May God save us from these habits.

mrphysics:

Everything I wrote here is real. And I write according to what I saw and experienced here in Kano.meanwhile, where do you stay sir? Ramadan Kareem!

I stay at naibawa, and work along zaria road. I would post my own little qouta about my knowledge and findings about Kano state I'm the past 3years + (even though am not. corper).

@mr physics, I love your story, am also based in Kano state at the moment. I quite agree with some points of yours, but I need you to know that some of your fimdings as written here isn't really true.

thanks so much for the advise.

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2638d2ff, females only pls. Am based in d north, and wud prefer matured chicks only.

My heart miens for Mojisola-my darling.

http://tiwasblog.com/2013/08/video-interview-i-have-28-children-senator-yerima-on-channels-news.html

Dis is a link on the interview held on channels TV with Senator Yerima on 25th August, 2013.
Kindly watch and make your comments.

jazakum llahu khaeran.