akinrinolaadura:
kasu no get shame at all poly den dey follow yan
shey den no see any uni to follow role ni
abi na polytechnic be dere level

teufelein:
WAKE UP, NIGERIA IS DYING: A REPLY TO MY FULANI FRIENDS by Obadiah Mailafia

TODAY concludes the piece I wrote in this Column last week in response to one Abdullah Musa Abdullah who accused me of being a hate-monger. His confused and unlettered attacks, he declared that I had no right to talk of genocide in contemporary because such crimes appertain only to states.

He gave examples of the Spanish Conquistadores in Latin America; America against the native Indians; Australia against the Aborigines; the Nazis against the Jews; and the more recent Burmese against the hapless Rohingya Muslims:
“How can someone who became a Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria write of genocide in Nigeria? …I am not a historian, but I believe that genocide is either a state policy or abetted by the state as is currently going on in Myanmar.”
In his selective historical memory, Abdullah predictably makes no reference to the genocide committed by the Ottoman Turks against the Armenians – the first genocide of our twentieth century.




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Our friend has apparently not come across Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 1948. Genocide can be committed not only by states but also by organised as well as militarised gangsters.
The horrible genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda was committed by Hutu militias at a time when there was no government to speak of. Lest we forget: Genocide involves targeting a specific group with the intent to wipe off every trace of their racial, ethnic or religious-cultural identity.
The atrocities committed by Boko Haram against Christian communities in the north east and by herdsmen militias in the Middle Belt are patently genocidal in intent and character.
To be sure, Muslims have also been victims, but the sheer thrust of the strategy of eliminationism has been directed mainly at religious and ethnic minorities. I submit that those who do such things know neither God nor Humanity.
Our friend inferred that I mentioned the gang-up against the Fulani in their ancestral homeland of Guinea so that others in Nigeria could take the cue and do likewise. I have no such sinister motives.

I only made reference to that judicial fact so as to explain the psycho-sociological roots of the Fulani obsession with Nigeria as contrasted to their indifference to countries with significant Fulani populations such as Mali, Senegal, Niger, Gambia and Cameroon.
I insist that the Fulani worldwide seem to have this delusion that our country is their patrimony by rights. The forget one of the biggest lessons of history, that those who are relative late-comers owe us a duty of humility, not arrogance.
The message I have for people like Abdullah is: Please, wake up, Nigeria is dying! People are dying and you prefer to play the ostrich. Either you have no conscience or you are tacit or even active conspirators, in this genocide against my people. History will judge you. These people are like infants playing with fire; oblivious of the fact this fire could transmute into a conflagration that consume our entire country.
Even our National Assembly – a branch of government not reputed for its commitment to morality or public ethics — has recently condemned the killings in Benue, Taraba and as far as Birnin Gwari, Zamfara and Mubi. It is rather patronising of Abdullah to say that the Fulanis “promoted” the General Danjuma and made him what he is.

I have heard such nonsense on stilts – such balderdash. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma has sacrificed far more for the Caliphate than they could ever repay him. He could have taken the presidency on a platter but he never wanted it.
Our friend is perhaps ignorant of the fact that Danjuma’s Kwararafa people conquered Kano for two centuries. If he is in doubt he should consult elder statesman Tanko Yakasai.

I was born in a small missionary village within the catchment of the ancient Nok civilisation whose origins date back to Pharaonic Egypt. We are the true Nigerians. Without us Nigeria would have disintegrated like a house of cards. As a young lad, I grew up tending cattle with my childhood Fulani friends Lawal and Bello. If there is anyone who hates Fulanis, it cannot be me.
People of Abdullah’s ilk are so bigoted that they do not even remember that the founder of the first northern cultural and political movement was Russell Aliyu Barau Dikko, a Fulani Christian and first medical doctor of northern extraction. He founded Jamiyar Mutanen Arewa while his wife Mama Barau Dikko founded the women’s wing, Jamiyar Matan Arewa.

It was at the 1959 Jos Congress that men like Ahmadu Bello Sardauna of Sokoto and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa conspired to remove Dr. Dikko as their leader. They have all but expunged his memory from the hall of Northern political fame; with the only monument being the name of the hostel for medical students in Zaria.
In fairness to Sir Ahmadu Bello, he was generous enough to embrace leading northern Christian leaders among his inner circle. This was probably because his own mother was a former Jukun slave concubine of his father Ibrahim Bello Sarkin Rabah.
His closest confidantes were the likes of Michael Audu Buba, Reverend David Lot and Amos Awoniyi; while his most trusted personal physician was a devout Christian, the distinguished prize-winning medical scientist Professor Ishaya Shuaibu Audu. The pretenders to his legacy have been a bunch of selfish, wicked, corrupt, narrow-minded little men.

Abdullah and his ilk are suffering from what psychiatrists call “transference”. In an age when our latter-day Salafi neo-fascists consider it haram even to smile at members of another faith, those who live and breathe hatred are the first to accuse others of the disease. Such is the character of evil in our time. In all this unedifying conversation, I have received very strong messages of solidarity from Kanuri Muslims.
One of them, Ramat Shettima, wrote: “Kanem Borno resisted the evil plans of the Fulani to Islamise Kanuri people as already Muslims (sic)….the only reason for the Jihad just as it happened to the unsuspecting and naïve Hausa communities was to enslave the entire northern people….Benue, Taraba and Plateau people must be united against the coming progrom….Let us be united against this tiny tribe which uses Islam to kill others. We the Kanuri will not accept this evil.”

I also received an email comment from a brilliant young northern Muslim woman. She is from a wealthy and highly influential family and her identity must be protected. She wrote, and I quote:

“I just finished reading this column and I must say you spoke the truth. Your knowledge of history should really put professional historians to shame. The Jihad of Usman Danfodio was a religious cum political ideology executed to entrench a political/ethnic hegemony….The Habe Hausa people were already practicing Muslims many decades before the coming of the Fulani…the Fulani were smart in abandoning their language and culture to embrace the Hausa tradition…In recent times, there is a subtle and incipient rejection of the Fulani within the ethnicities that inhibit the far north. The Pullo themselves are making the situation worse. If you follow the news, you may have heard of the uncomplimentary comments made by some notable Fulanis reasserting their Fulaniness as the purest form of mankind. These comments are infuriating the Hausa…”

To our latter-day genocidaires, I have only one message: You are labouring under a curse. Far from invoking fear among our ancient warrior-tribesmen, your bloody swords invoke only our contempt.
As Holy Scripture warns, those who live by the sword will die by the sword; and those who sow to the wind will surely reap the whirlwind. And when the children of light prevail, as surely as they must; all of us – Igbo, Ijaw, Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, Ibibio, Christians and Muslims – will work together as children of God.

(THE AUTHOR OF THIS PIECE MR. OBADIAH MAILAFIA WAS AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY AND IS A FORMER DEP. GOVERNOR OF CENTRAL BANK).

HonSTONE:
LIMITATIONS

The Academic Staff Union of Universities just went on an indefinite strike and students were leaving the school environment. One-month strike turned into two months and at this point we concluded it was the end of our educational system. I was in year 1 and we were preparing for our second semester examination in 2012 before the strike commenced. My dad insisted I returned to Kano state because there was no need of me remaining in school.

I got home and was lazy. I needed to do something.

Prior to that day, one of my notes was stolen from me. The note contained all the formulae in secondary school physics textbook. It was an exercise given to me in O’Level. Our physics teacher told us to write down all the formulae to enable us study properly for our exams and I lent someone the notebook at the university for a few minutes and the young man didn’t return it to me. I searched for him but couldn’t recognised his face.

During my stay at home, I decided to do something similar. I got a new notebook and copied all the definitions from my physics textbook and all the formulae. I separated the project into 3 parts. Part 1 was for all the definition and formulae in SS1, and the other two parts were for topics in SS2 and SS3 respectively. I did that exercise for days and finally I was done.

Who would I give?
Who would publish it?
Who would I sell it to?


All my secondary school classmates were in higher institution.

Who would want to buy a 17-year-old boy’s work? Besides it was just definitions and formulae. Nothing special.
I wasn’t having any special goal or target. I just wanted to write something.

One faithful day I got a call from one of my junior colleagues in school. I told him about my work and he was interested. He said he would buy the work for his younger brother who was preparing for his WAEC.

There was no branding in my work. No special effect. Just hand written piece of work.

We made a copy of the work and I was paid. It took a lot of negotiation.
My first work even though it was just “copy and paste”. But it was a solution to a major problem. Instead of going to the library with your textbooks, you could have a quick revision with my work. Just scan through the definitions of terms and the formulae in each topic. It was a quick reference book for secondary school students.

Now, guess how many more copies I sold of that work.
20? 30?...

Stop guessing. That was the only cop y I sold.
Just 1.

After all the stress and effort I put into the work, I could sell just one copy. No one wanted to buy it. It was naked with no “packaging”.
All I had were excuses and excuses don’t pay bills.

The strike was called off and I return to school.

I noticed something in my university. There was no official textbook attached to a particular course and it was a compulsory course for Engineering students, Physical science students, part of Life science students and Agricultural students. It was MTH123. The course covered Vectors, Statistics and Trigonometry. An Agric. student made a material for this course. Another student from Physical sciences made a material too. But there was no material from Engineering. This period I was already an engineering student. The course lecturer taught us from his note and we bought materials from the student at physical science.

During the holidays, I had an idea. What about I write a material on that same course and sell to my junior colleagues in engineering? They would want to buy my material because they would trust me more than other students from other faculties and besides the course does not have an official textbook.

There was no computer at my possession to type the work and I didn’t want to make the same mistake I made with my previous work.

No laptop but I had a tablet.

“It is not what you don’t have that limits you. It is what you have and don’t know how to use”. - Steve Harris.

I got different materials and textbooks as reference and wrote my course material for MTH123. I used my tablet to design the cover page and typed the work. When it came to diagrams, I’d draw on a paper and snap and attached the picture to the work.

I was creative in my work. I made the work interesting. I added exercises to every chapter and added jokes to my work.
When I returned to school, I printed 50 copies. I was scared actually. My first business had failed and here I was doing another.
Remember, in the university, your customers are everywhere. That was what kept me moving.

In less than two weeks, I’d sold everything.
It was difficult convincing people to buy a material written by a year 2 student. I can remember trying to sell to a young boy and he asked who the writer was. When he found out it was me, he returned the work and said he would not buy a material written by an amateur.

I felt bad.
But just because one person rejected my work, doesn’t mean others would.
I printed 50 more copies and sold them too.

At the end of the semester, I had sold about 170 copies and each copy cost ₦200. The cost of production was ₦90 and I was making profit of ₦110 from each sales.

At the beginning of the next session, I got calls from students of how my material had helped them during the last examination and they had good results.

This was the same material written by an “amateur” and it yielded positive results.

IT IS NOT WHAT YOU DO NOT HAVE THAT LIMITS YOU. IT IS WHAT YOU HAVE AND DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE. – Steve Harris.

What others feel is useless can be useful if only you apply creativity.
My first material was written with pen and paper and I sold only 1 copy.
My second material was written with a phone and I sold 170 copies.
Limitations will always come; it is our reactions that matters.

You are where you are not because of lack of opportunities but because of lack of creativity. – Livingstone Imonitie.

HonSTONE:
LIMITATIONS

The Academic Staff Union of Universities just went on an indefinite strike and students were leaving the school environment. One-month strike turned into two months and at this point we concluded it was the end of our educational system. I was in year 1 and we were preparing for our second semester examination in 2012 before the strike commenced. My dad insisted I returned to Kano state because there was no need of me remaining in school.

I got home and was lazy. I needed to do something.

Prior to that day, one of my notes was stolen from me. The note contained all the formulae in secondary school physics textbook. It was an exercise given to me in O’Level. Our physics teacher told us to write down all the formulae to enable us study properly for our exams and I lent someone the notebook at the university for a few minutes and the young man didn’t return it to me. I searched for him but couldn’t recognised his face.

During my stay at home, I decided to do something similar. I got a new notebook and copied all the definitions from my physics textbook and all the formulae. I separated the project into 3 parts. Part 1 was for all the definition and formulae in SS1, and the other two parts were for topics in SS2 and SS3 respectively. I did that exercise for days and finally I was done.

Who would I give?
Who would publish it?
Who would I sell it to?


All my secondary school classmates were in higher institution.

Who would want to buy a 17-year-old boy’s work? Besides it was just definitions and formulae. Nothing special.
I wasn’t having any special goal or target. I just wanted to write something.

One faithful day I got a call from one of my junior colleagues in school. I told him about my work and he was interested. He said he would buy the work for his younger brother who was preparing for his WAEC.

There was no branding in my work. No special effect. Just hand written piece of work.

We made a copy of the work and I was paid. It took a lot of negotiation.
My first work even though it was just “copy and paste”. But it was a solution to a major problem. Instead of going to the library with your textbooks, you could have a quick revision with my work. Just scan through the definitions of terms and the formulae in each topic. It was a quick reference book for secondary school students.

Now, guess how many more copies I sold of that work.
20? 30?...

Stop guessing. That was the only cop y I sold.
Just 1.

After all the stress and effort I put into the work, I could sell just one copy. No one wanted to buy it. It was naked with no “packaging”.
All I had were excuses and excuses don’t pay bills.

The strike was called off and I return to school.

I noticed something in my university. There was no official textbook attached to a particular course and it was a compulsory course for Engineering students, Physical science students, part of Life science students and Agricultural students. It was MTH123. The course covered Vectors, Statistics and Trigonometry. An Agric. student made a material for this course. Another student from Physical sciences made a material too. But there was no material from Engineering. This period I was already an engineering student. The course lecturer taught us from his note and we bought materials from the student at physical science.

During the holidays, I had an idea. What about I write a material on that same course and sell to my junior colleagues in engineering? They would want to buy my material because they would trust me more than other students from other faculties and besides the course does not have an official textbook.

There was no computer at my possession to type the work and I didn’t want to make the same mistake I made with my previous work.

No laptop but I had a tablet.

“It is not what you don’t have that limits you. It is what you have and don’t know how to use”. - Steve Harris.

I got different materials and textbooks as reference and wrote my course material for MTH123. I used my tablet to design the cover page and typed the work. When it came to diagrams, I’d draw on a paper and snap and attached the picture to the work.

I was creative in my work. I made the work interesting. I added exercises to every chapter and added jokes to my work.
When I returned to school, I printed 50 copies. I was scared actually. My first business had failed and here I was doing another.
Remember, in the university, your customers are everywhere. That was what kept me moving.

In less than two weeks, I’d sold everything.
It was difficult convincing people to buy a material written by a year 2 student. I can remember trying to sell to a young boy and he asked who the writer was. When he found out it was me, he returned the work and said he would not buy a material written by an amateur.

I felt bad.
But just because one person rejected my work, doesn’t mean others would.
I printed 50 more copies and sold them too.

At the end of the semester, I had sold about 170 copies and each copy cost ₦200. The cost of production was ₦90 and I was making profit of ₦110 from each sales.

At the beginning of the next session, I got calls from students of how my material had helped them during the last examination and they had good results.

This was the same material written by an “amateur” and it yielded positive results.

IT IS NOT WHAT YOU DO NOT HAVE THAT LIMITS YOU. IT IS WHAT YOU HAVE AND DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE. – Steve Harris.

What others feel is useless can be useful if only you apply creativity.
My first material was written with pen and paper and I sold only 1 copy.
My second material was written with a phone and I sold 170 copies.
Limitations will always come; it is our reactions that matters.

You are where you are not because of lack of opportunities but because of lack of creativity. – Livingstone Imonitie.



This is indeed a very touching story. Kudos to students of KUST. You guys are amazing. Also, I want to inform those that are interested in Kano State university that they are ready for new intakes and if you are a jambite, do yourself good and visit https://www.nigeriaschoolnews.ng/kust-post-utme-registration/ to get info about jamb cut off. Also, you can also visit https://www.nigeriaschoolnews.ng/kust-admission-list/ to know your admission status if you've applied. Good luck!

Pefuele:


Ok,your responses to some questions are verbose?

Do you have any friends in the US? Just say NO
A lot of people from your home are probably more of relatives...that's long-windedness!(delete that part)
How did you find out about the school?
Through my cousin,an alumni of the school,who waxed lyrical about the numerous opportunities such as xxxx and Xxxx and Bleep the school offered when he returned back.His/her knowledge/skill gained allow him/her to secure mouth watery employment.

Please:Hope you know the full name of your cousin.The VO may ask.

Why are you planning to continue your education now?
Your responses are generic..

This is another way of asking: what are your career plans?
To answer this you need to have a career plan..do you?
Since you are currently working you can say this:
After graduation I planned to work for 2/3 years and thereafter go for my masters to consolidate on my experiences in the corporate industry.The masters program will mould me as an expert by addressing the problems of health communication in Nigeria.

*Mind you you should know some of this problems..

Or if there is a recent opportunity at your work place you want to key into you can say this:

Currently,my company is considering revamping health communication and there will be open opportunities when I return back to Naija.It will be a supervisory position and I will love to join the new departments to solve their problems and help drive results...

Work on why you chose GU?Those points are generic.
Ok,look for something unique in the school that relates to you in your faculty in the school.
Look for research,look for innovations.
Check what makes the course synopsis stand out.
#My2cents

Zarisocial:


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mathinips:
ASPIRANT, TELL US WHAT YOU WILL DO ABOUT;

1. Outstanding Salaries
2. FINANCE considering low allocation and heavy debt profile

3. SECURITY

4. EDUCATION
primary, secondary, tertiary and informal.
137 KSU professors and doctors whose appointments terminated for going on strike to demand for their rights?

5. AGRICULTURE

6. HEALTH

7. COMMERCE and INDUSTRIALIZATION

8. SOLID MINERALS and other ECONOMIC RESOURCES

9. WORKS, ROADS TRANSPORT and OTHER PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

9. ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS

10. MEN AFFAIRS, WOMEN AFFAIRS, YOUTH AND CHILDREN AFFAIRS

11. JUDICIARY AND JUSTICE

12. TOURISM

13. ARTS, CULTURAL AFFAIRS, and RELIGION

14. WATER RESOURCES.

Your answers and explanations will give us an insight into what to expect from you as Govervnor..

remi4ever:

Thank you very much. I just downloaded your app on PlayStore, quite fascinating!!! Here's a link to mine..

Exclusively for Kwasu students..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kpopular.kwasu