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Last week, a young Hausa man Abdullahi Mai Kano opened a shop called Alhaji Suya where he sells exquisite Nijah aromatic Suya and Kilishi. A lot of people think Hausa/Fulani people rarely hustlein the streets of London or working in any organisation in the UK except those working in Nigerian embassy or those studying in the UK universities. On the contrary, there is a lot of them working in private organizations, universities and hospitals across UK.

I was impressed to see this friendly and hardworking young Hausa man, an MSc holder of the University of Greenwich, London, promoting one of the Nigerian delicacy in London.

The picture posted by Chukwuma was actually taken in 2010. You can check here to find where the picture was first published in 2010
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/03/lagos-benin-expressway-blood-sacrifice-of-a-people/

According to a BBC report at the time, a series of photographs emerged after armed robbers attacked a bus on the Lagos-Benin highway. The victims had reportedly been made to lie down in the road and then the bus driver was ordered to run them over. Here is a report by BBC at that time http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8550536.stm

A blatant and wicked lie.

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" A Night In The Inner Recess Of The Emir’s Palace

I had a rare peep into the inner recess of the palace of the Emir of Kano last night.

I have been to the Palace many times in the past and have been welcomed in the outer part.

I never knew it was that extensive .
Last night was different as the Emir ushered me and some of my younger colleagues in The Villa to this massive living room that doubles as a library.
It was not only gorgeous but a forest of books . I have not seen any private library so rich as that in Nigeria since I have traveled around and been to places as a journalist and public official .
I learnt of the famed library of the Odemo of Isara in the 60s but I am not too sure his collections could have rivaled what I saw in Kano last night.

The Emir told me what I saw was not all , that he still has close to 14,000 collections in his house in London that he is planning to bring back home. Some I could see were still in cartons in some rooms in the palace.
Well displayed and subject classified there is no topic on Africa that is not covered.
The Emir informed me yesterday that his goal is to build a huge library in the Palace that will be accessible to researchers . Where they are Now Is only accessible to family members.
He regretted a situation where vital documents and rare books collected by his predecessors were in the past lost to fire or stolen. His ambition is to build a solid library that will in a 100 years time house millions of books and documents that would have been collected by him and Emirs that will come after him.

Acquisition and production of knowledge has been fascinating to some ruling houses in the northern part of Nigeria. Some months past when I visited the Sultan of Sokoto I was given a set of books the Sultan has written by himself or commissioned. The book , The Sultans Of Sokoto, was particularly informative. It gave me a rare insight into the history, culture, philosophy, Palace intrigues of the Sultanate and literary accomplishments of some of the Sultans.

Last night I sat down with Emir Sanusi and discussed politics and the economy for hours. He was so forthcoming as well as forthright. It was a no -holds-barred lecture on the state of the economy and what should be done. By the time I left at a little past midnight I could not but be amazed at his wealth of knowledge and perspectives on issues. Thank you Emir Sanusi for a night well spent." Sen. Babafemi Ojudu.

My view:

One, leaders are readers. Don't buy the proponents of 160 words generation, they spend millions on right type of education.

Two, these are the ways royals are raised. No stone is left unturned in preparing stable minds for the futute.

Raise your children and wards in preparation for a greater future.

Books makes an informed mind, difficult to enslave, ready to engage in positive purposes.

May Nigeria Succeed...

So since they are the victims, we call them travellers utterly barbaric. to murder innocent people. barbaric

Time shall say,,the tivs criminals are allowed to go free,then may the soul of the killed Fulani's rest in peace,May Allah provide them with Aljannah Firdausi.

boldaslion:
Taaaa! Comot there with your useless postulations. What are they revenging on chief Olu Falae, Navy Admiral Afolayan, and others they have attacked without provocations? Keep justifying their bestiallity, their cup is filled and running over. For sure, very soon the hunter will become the hunted.

Which Olu Falae?? How can 10 herdsmen burn 40 hectares of farmland that is guarded by vigilante? One hectare is about the size of two football fields if you don't know. Besides, we are yet to see the pictures of the farmland burned. PDP are just using him to whip sentiments amongst the SW.

Once again my character , Sex are the facts in issue not the killings. You all can kiss my Fulfude ass

Cattle is a cultural thing to the Fulani Man, they are a symbol of wealth and a source of pride, and a person's entire life revolves around the herds.

To a real Fulani, any pursuit other than a pastoral one, specifically the herding of cattle, is regarded as demeaning to themselves and insulting to Fula culture. Even sex, colour of the cattle and where they graze is ritually significant,

To a Fulani Man, cattle are a major sign of wealth, and are exchanged between a groom and his bride's family as a symbol of their bond (bridewealth). Essentially, their social use is to create or strengthen ties and loyalties.

Without Cattle, a Fulani Man is Mr, nobody, a outcast and a failure to the family. The Minority tribes in the NC, are aware of this, they still attack and rustle their cows. We the Fulani by our nature will always see an attack against our source of survival as an attack on our lives. This belief, understandly is cruel, because to me, no amount of herds of cattle can ever equate to the life of a single human being.

This is one reason why we should support any initiative, whether colony, protectorate, ranching, or whatever as long as its going to stop this cycle of madness.

May God help us to value the sacredness of human life. May the culprit of this wicked acts be exposed.

This where you will truly know whether some people have the fear of God or not. Justice should be indiscriminate. Looking at those gory pictures and names of commentators, I haven't seen CAN, chukwuemekas, Felicia's, Atinukes, Ogheneros, Basseys, Nkechis here. This is where we have issues. Can we blame our choices in an innocent leader who's trying hard to bring sanity to us yet some of us choose the other way round? In my publication Las week, I made it emphatically clear that yes, the Fulani are some how primitive, tough, but retaliatory. Mostly what we see is retaliatory, reaction to an action. Yes, they are brutal, yes some rob or kidnap now on high ways, but the conflict we are witnessing, most of them are reaction to action. Before now, they didn't have voice, if anything happens to them, they waited for a while then retaliate whenever they feel they can, but might be on a wrong target. We should fear God, we should be honest and just in our assessment and judgement on issues of national interest.
Both the Fulani and some so called host communities are guilty.

While Nigeria was distracted by Obasanjo's long rambling essay, armed Irigwe ethnic militia were at work in Miango, Bassa LGA of Plateau state. In pictures; two herd boys Idris Musa and Anas Zakariyya murdered in cold blood while their cows were mowed in a senseless orgy of violence. Similar thing happened in Miango a few months ago, the attack on Fulani went unreported, but the reprisal attack went viral for weeks.

If CNN is a fake news, why isn't Fox News, CBNS, BBC, FRANCE24 not reporting it as genocide?

Everyone is calling this crisis a Communal Crisis,
Wailers want to call it a Jihadist expansion program

You think those Amala hunters in Ekiti are any match to Fulani herdsmen? Fulani herdsmen haven't set sight on them yet, in fact, all of SW isn't in their preferred area of grazing.

By the way, the proposed new rail addition from Kano through Kazaure, Daura and Jibia to Maradi covers a whopping distance of 806 kilometres,

Haba 806 km, from Kano to Daura is just an hour drive, from Daura to Jibia is 45 minutes and from Jibia to Maradi is less than an hour. These people can lie

fuckboys:
Go and ask your government about our worth, you can't do shit. We OWN sabon gari, nomansland and kwankwashi, yes we OWN it, there's nothing you can do about it. come to sabon gari and singer market and see how we feed your people everyday, they push Kaya for us, wash our cars and cloths, we dash your almajiris children money everyday so they can feed and see the next day,

ko da yaushe faɗi gaskiya, mallam haba

When you restrict your entire life from Sabon Gari then you are bound to have this feeling. My friend, take a stroll to Nasarawa, Hotoro, Rijir Zaki, Gadon Kaya, Zoo Road, Shagari Qtrs and Gwammaja Qtrs and see highbrow neighborhoods with functional streetlights, wide and tarred roads, pipe borne water and all indices to measure a decent neighborhood.

You talked about Sabon Gari which is not up to the size of Dala in landmass and population. You said all the best stores are located in Sabon Gari, I ask you to mention one single Departmental store in Sabon Gari

Shoprighte, Juffatu, Sahad store, Country Mall, Grand Square, Wellcare, More& More are located where?
Don't come to the internet and think you can lie yourself out of it.

Pix 1 Longest flyover from a night view

Pix 2 Investment House

Make I add my own put

Pix1- Another view of the longest flyover in Nigeria

Pix-2 Tiga hydroelectric dam

The tin goes skirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rap

femidejulius:
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Just like the way the Lagos port wasn't important in decades before oil abi? Stop deceiving yourself. Even before oil, the Lagos ports have been the most important in this geographical area called Nigeria.

Which part of English language is giving you problems? Comprehension or Reading? I never said Lagos ports aren't important, what I said was that, in a restructured Nigeria, their influence and significance will be reduced.

Reason, the SE and SS states will develop and utilize their own seaports, the North will most likely use neighboring countries ports that are way too efficient and safe than Nigeria ports as alternative source

If oil dries up, the significance of Lagos Sea port will diminish. Every coaster city will develop it's own sea port and Northern importers will decide which port will like to use. At the end, the North will become the shining bride in which everyone is wooing to come with subsidize fees.

The North on the other hand can also utilize the sea ports in Cotonu and Lome and Duala in Cameron. From Duala to Fufore in Adamawa is less than the distance from Adamawa to Lagos. The distance from Kamba and Bagudo in Kebbi to Cotonu in Benin is less than the journey from kebbi to Lagos.

A lot of people think the North can't survive without the sea ports in the south, bring on restructuring and allow the north freedom to choose where to import it's good from and see that N20 Billions tax generated in Lagos reduced to half.

The North has good relationship with all its neighbors, Niger, Benin, Chad and Cameroon, we can go into partnership with anyone of them. The SW minus Lagos is nothing but a landscape full of tropical rainforest and colanut farm

Chai Nnamdiot Cownu will be cursing these people inside his hideout, see as them quickly move on forgetting their popular slogan " BIAFRA OR DEATH "

Ask them to name one reputable firm that has closed down, they can't. These are the same set of losers wishing, praying and even sharing fake news of INNOSON Factory closing down.

agbangam:
Most firms dat closed down are firms dat are been sustained by looted funds, most genuine companies dat i know of were able to survive d recesion period. Dey reduced their staff strenght so as to cut cost and dey also increased the price of their product (inflation) just to survive d harsh period which is gradually reducing. It happened in other countries dat went into recession like Nigeria, so as for those dat u claim closed down i strongly believe most of dem were been sustained by illegal means which PMB is here to end.

Swollen, Fullness and tenderness of the breasts is the third most frequently cited symptom of pregnancy.

As a woman, although never been pregnant before, am thinking Zahra is pregnant.

So I later learnt

Kidney Transplants In Nigeria:
#LASUTH 2015

#VIEW POINT HOSPITAL
Gwarimpa Abuja 2012

#Delta State University Teaching Hospital Oghara 2014

#Federal Medical Centre Umuahia 2017

#Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Kano 2013

AKTH did not only achieve the feat of first renall transplant, she also became the first and the only facility to do it ROUTINELY.
Although the waiting list is lengthy due to the 3 months waiting period.
What this means is that the knowledge has become fully domesticated and the facilities available.
The few other centres who achieved a similar feat relied heavily on expertise and facilities from elsewhere outside the country. The result is you never hear of another transplant from such centres.
Kano is the only centre that has the ability to do it routinely!
We, on this side of the Niger, we don't know how to brag or blow our trumpet.