CastedDude: A man has revealed his surprise after visiting the library located in the Palace of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II. According to him, the massive living room which doubles as a library - is not only gorgeous but a forest of books. According to reports, the Emir still has close to 14,000 collections in his house in London that he is planning to bring back home in Kano state.
Read what Nur Habib shared online after his visit to the exquisite library;
I left the Emir's Palace here in Kano at about 9:35 pm. I went with my uncle and cousin this time around. And I went into sections of the Palace that I have never been to before. It was beautiful, especially at night. The renovations and reconstructions some grumbled about are well worth it in my humble opinion.
We met the King in his new library at the Palace. A very exquisitely furnished large room with the most beautiful wood panelling and chandeliers I have ever seen. There were shelves on two sides of the room filled from the floor to the ceiling with books.
Remember that family law he proposed one time? Well, the issue came up as His Highness rose to get a copy of a book on Islamic jurisprudence written ages ago where the recommended minimum age for marriage was surprisingly specified at 18. He then read from another book that listed the different age limits for marriage for both males and females in several Middle-eastern countries and across different Islamic sects.
He said that he is still insisting that the minimum age limit can be debated, ranging between 15, 16 and so on, as many scholars argued for, but that he still prefers it to be set at 18 years old. But to insist that the institution of marriage cannot be regulated is not only disingenuous but absurd.
The King then recounted a conversation he once had with a prominent scholar here in Kano where the Malam told His Highness that the problem with introducing something as new as the King is proposing is that the people will not welcome it. That they will "talk".
The Emir laughed, as did we, when he said he replied the Malam saying that what will the people say other than what people like him tell them? If he tells them to accept it, they will not resist. Likewise, if he also tells them to reject it then that is what they'll do. Scholars have that power here. Sometimes more power than the government even.
Anyway, work is still ongoing. The law is still being fine-tuned and all the different sides will meet up once again to find a final way forward.
He even added that the Governor of Jigawa told him that they are already very willing to implement such a family law there.
Discussions moved on to other subjects as I continued to marvel at the elegant beauty of His Highness' marvellous library. And I thought to myself, wait o, this man is equally a scholar himself. He is not just aping or making noise but he actually knows what he is talking about from the perspectives of religion, culture and the law.
Another thing meeting him today reminded me of is that he is quite tall too. You don't really see it on TV or in pictures. Or when he's seated in all his kingly regalia on a throne.
One last thing that he did that I found extremely remarkable was how he quickly recognized me. The first and last time I visited and met the Emir in private was sometime early or mid last year, I can't remember when precisely but I did make a post about it here. We had a brief conversation after I had introduced myself and I haven't met with the Emir one on one ever since.
Yet, the man recognized me almost instantly. Considering the volume of faces he comes across almost on a daily basis, I found this to be very impressive. What a memory.
Illiterate, you can not comprehend what's above your your shallow and empty skull.
Question::
Can the senate discipline or sack Mr Ali? Your answer should further explain your ignorance on this subject.
Same question I asked your other ignorant brother.
Pompous idiot, so you finally acknowledge the senate can sack the president but insist ali can treat them like crap. Your stubborn idiocy has got you confused.
deomelllo: You don't know because you have zero understanding per the 3 arms of government and the meaning of separation of powers.
Mr Ali was hired by the executive and he is a representative of the executive arm of government/The President. He is not answerable to Dino or any of the clowns in the senate apart from the usual senate floor oversight hearings.
Read up on that first.
You are arguing based on ignorance.
Ha ha haha.....Joker. I thought the president does not answer to the senate. Ignorance? You just defined your situation.
deomelllo: You don't know because you have zero understanding per the 3 arms of government and the meaning of separation of powers.
Mr Ali was hired by the executive and he is a representative of the executive arm of government/[b]The President. He is not answerable to Dino or any of the [/b]clowns in the senate apart from the usual senate floor oversight hearings.
Read up on that first.
Lolz, like seriously? The president is not answerable to the senate? And you sitting on your high horse like you know it all. U mean you don't know the senate can impeach the president if he steps out of line.
linearity: You are twisting this to suite your narrative.
Custom Boss Ali is not a civil servant; he is a political appointee who serves at the pleasure of the President. He answers to the President and can be fired by him anytime and at will.
Yes, Dino represents the people; but he serves at the will of the people and can be fired anytime by the people.
I will not like to go into your citation of ‘nepotic’ that will be a diversion, put if you look at the Nigeria constitution very well, the President have the constitutional right to chose whoever he wants in his carbinet, the only restriction is the geographical and state representation as indicated in the constitution. The office of the Presidency is not hindered by the doctrine of nepotism as other heads of departments are.
The original post I was responding to mentioned Ali been fired by his Boss, if this had happened in the USA and my response was to refute that. You have not been able to refute my arguments. Constitutionally the people cannot fire Ali, not in Nigeria and not even applicable in the USA, the post’s assertions that I was responding to are blatantly false.
Bros you you are taking this too personal. When you realize that the customs boss is a civil servant then we can talk.
deomelllo: What is the difference? They both serve Nigerians and Nigerians pay their salaries.
Apart from oversight functions, the customs boss own the clown senator nothing, the president is his boss and he functions at the pleasure of the executive/president, not the legislature.
They did not teach you anything about the 3 arms of government or you skipped social studies in secondary school?
Oga teacher the senate is not a civil service. Do Nigerians also not pay the president salaries? What does the 3 arms of government got to do with this?
linearity: Not true, you are pulling stuff out of your ass.
Ali’s Boss is the President, In Nigeria just like in the USA, the President will not fire any of his heads of department because of an encounter with a Senator or a Senate committee.
Those two arms of government sees themselves as co-equal; Dino was foolishly trying to elevate the Senate above the Executive branch of government and any President will applaud any of his/her head of department who put such arrogant Senator(s) in their place and remands them that, they are co-equal.
Bros you got it wrong. Customs is a civil service, they serve the people. Melaye and Co are representatives of the people. The customs boss should have received them well. Dino is right. just that the President's relationship with the former military customs boss is nepotic.
LocalChamp: Posted By: Onyedi Ojiabor, Abuja On: January 29, 2018 The feud between the Senate and Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd), resurfaced on Monday in Abuja.
Trouble started when the Senate Ad- hoc Committee on Economic Waste in Nigeria visited the Customs Headquarters in Abuja as part of its oversight functions.
The drama was triggered by remarks made by Chairman of the Committee, Senator Dino Melaye, over the way the Senate delegation was received by the Customs high command.
Melaye said by protocol, the Customs chief was expected to come down from his office to welcome the committee members into the Custom premises.
The Kogi West lawmaker said it was a breach of protocol for the Customs CG to casually meet the delegation at the conference room.
Melaye said the practice of ushering in the Senate delegation has been the practice with statutory bodies like Customs, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) and others over the years.
He wondered why such established etiquette which was the norm under previous Customs chiefs was not accorded the committee by Ali.
Melaye said: “Before reading the prepared speech of the committee, let me make this small remark on what we have just observed here in form of breach of protocols.
“Mr. CG, rather than meeting us here at the conference room by way of courtesy, you supposed to have met us at the ground floor on arrival into the premises.
“That has been the practice of statutory bodies headed by Chief Executive Officers like you. Relevant Senate committees have over the years been accorded this by bosses of Immigration Service, Prison Service and others, making us to wonder why it was not so here today under your leadership.
“Therefore before proceeding further, on account of this observation, we want the Customs management to know that the presence of this committee before it implies that the Senate itself is before it to put things in order as regards the economic waste taking place in the Customs Service requiring the seriousness it deserves from you and the entire management.”
The Customs CG told the Senate delegation that the agency has its own protocol that is different from other public establishments.
Ali said: “We have our own protocol as regards receiving visitors like you. I don’t need to come downstairs to receive you just as nobody in the Senate or House of Representatives has ever come out to receive us anytime we visit the National Assembly.”
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Technology companies have 'disrupted' the way we shop, communicate, travel and do just about everything in our daily lives. Now, a pair of robot strippers have their eyes set on disrupting your next lap dance. The android adult entertainers, dubbed the 'Robo Twins,' grabbed headlines earlier this month when they performed in a Las Vegas gentleman's club at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show.
This weekend, the Robo Twins are making an appearance in New York City when they perform Friday and Saturday night at the Sapphire 39 strip club in midtown Manhattan.
Nadeemkumi: Leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has by his actions shown that he is the President of Katsina state, not of Nigeria, adding that he totally agrees with the content of Obasanjo’s letter to the President.
Lamenting that “the President has not said a word of condolence to the people of Benue since the herdsmen’s attacks started”, he told Vanguard in an interview that the continuation of the killings is the worst dereliction of duty on Buhari’s part.
According to the nonegerian, all the key security agencies in Nigeria are manned by northerners and mostly from Katsina state because “Buhari has an agenda to use his Fulani people to overrun the country”. He maintained that everything that Buhari does indicate that “he is the President of Katsina State and not of Nigeria!”.
Adebanjo said, “I am not a friend of Obasanjo but, for the first time, I agree with him totally. There is no accusation he made that is not justifiable except sycophants want to play to the gallery. I even congratulate him for confessing that why Buhari was voted for was to unseat anything Jonathan and that he is sorry for that. The only thing missing which I believe he should have included in that letter was to apologize to Nigerians for misleading them.
On second thoughts, the pics did not capture enough details maybe it was not a pole he commisioned... .. I mean that will be the height of . ...... no no it’s just not possible.
Yeah I have used it too. All I can say is how to use it. You open the cover then open the engine oil cover of the engine. Slightly tilt the oil so that it pours into the engine. I don’t remember much afterwards
ogunsinamayowa: I'm interested. Can you be specific about the months you have been using it? The battery backup hours? And will I get the original charger if I bought it?
Used for some weeks and dumped for a while. Of course comes with the follow come charger.
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