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blackjack21:
Don't mind the op.
Imagine a mosque between every five houses? not even in Saudi Arabia will you see such.
your attempt at describing kano is like that of a man who tries to describe the sea just by observing a droplet of water.

So your aim is to bastardise the children of other people without seeing anything wrong with it because you're so educated and well civilized.
If that is so, well, i can't blame us for being overprotective.

You think You're so educated yet you believe whoever doesn't knows how to speak good English is an illiterate. Pardon me saying that, that's a slave mentality.
if you've the time and means try and travel around the world to places like Japan, China, Russia, India, to see how wondrously intelligent they are yet they barely speak English.
However, if you still resolve to keep your induced idea of education then I will agree you're just another indoctrinated robot.

For saying that no.religion is better than another shows that you're a hypocritical asshole#, (I'm sorry to say that). if not, then time you go to church do endeavor to preach to your brethren that their religion is no better than that of the terrorists and senseless islamiyya pidophiles.

I'm a northerner bro, a hausa-fulani man from Kano. don't assume I'm a Muslim.

I will advise you; you truly wish to understand northerners and their ways you need to remove your judgmental googles you wore from the south, see the north through the northern eye, befriend their males too. then you'll understand why and how.

Empty your cup!

softsee:
i decided not to utter a word until wen i reach the end, Fagge lga can't be ruled by igbo man, d igbo man u re talkin abt is sabongari councillor or sabon gari market chairmanship... I'm kano indegine, hausa for that matter, I'm batch B servin in lagos state, i ave stories to tell abt yrb ppl nd yrb land, bt finish ur own, time to start challenging u on some of ur points... Corpers wee

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

numericalguy:
If he doesn't know anything about kano, why come online to tell lies. Why slander other people?

fiizznation:
Can you imagine, the ignorant original poster only ply the nnamdi azikwe express road{and maybe some other out sketch places} in Kaduna state which anybody coming from the south that is heading to kano state most pass through and he is already making some lame comparisons between kano and Kaduna state. Funny indeed. The op maybe correct with one or two things in his kano narrative, but all the other things he said are pure lies, while some are just exaggerated. I laughed about the mosque part and the hijab stuffs. Which mentally stable hausa/fulani girl with a hijab on her head will look at people like this op twice?

P.S. seun, mynd44, lalasticlala, please I think you guys should stop putting this kind of threads on your homepage, especially one that is full of lies like this. If one must share his experiences with the outer world, I believe such experience should be a genuine one and not one that is filled up with ignorance and cheap lies. Thank you and God bless

Timbuktu14:
I have been to Kano State once and stayed for a month. About 5% of what the op said is true... The rest are misconceptions! I felt this way for about a week but later enjoyed every bit of my visit.

I'm sure OP will enjoy his stay as well... If and only if he is ready to!

Wish you a happy stay and a fruitful service year.

tiwiex:
At all at all na winch. OPs chronicle is better than nothing. He has dragged people out to make corrections where he erred. Good and well structured thought. Now I am sure one or two people will visit kano because of Mr physics. By the way, I am a physics major too. I think I will drive to Nassarawa this weekend. Is there anything fun going on there? Who sabi Nassarawa abeg?

mrphysics:
Looks like you don't know what is experience. I challenge you to come to Kano state and I will lead you to many places and never will you pass five houses without seeing a mosque. Do you think I came here to lie. This post wasn't even for front-page.

Everything I posted here is correct save the one I was corrected which is that the local government chairman of fagge is not an igbo man rather the councillor of sabongari which if you examine very well you will see it was just an interference of truth.

mrphysics:
one thing I noticed is that a great number of people do not speak English, I have met with the big and small ones, many of them don't speak or understand English and as such communication was and is a barrier. I have seen keke napep carry me round Kano state because he didn't understand and I don't know my way. I have seen restaurant people serve me wrong food due to language barrier. I have told my H.O.D that there is no how they will continue to speak Hausa to this students in school and expect them to be perfect in English. my class rep have sent me funny messages with wrong written basic English, I would have loved to post a snapshot of it but for security reasons no.

A student have written on top of his scrip "Sir, your are not registration number sir", meaning," I don't have registration number sir". Other funny messages I have read and have in my phone is ones that read: "please sir, we don't have free tomorrow. sir, my ba3 is dangerous. OK sir, thank" etc.

indeed language have been a barrier. we must have issues when we want to buy something. when we want them to help us at the borehole, etc. they are deeply engrossed in Hausa speaking. They are comfortable with it.

geloorrrrdd:
All these sh*t about kano being developed than Kaduna are all LIES. I was born and breed in Kaduna..

Kaduna is the most developed state in the north, quote me anywhere. Most of my coursemates are from other state.

Kaduna has the highest population of christians in all the northern states, during religious fight, muslims fear coming to some areas because they know what would happen to them.

So this op just dey talk Im own. the guy na newbie.

mrphysics:
We reached ifeanyichukwu park Kano state by 7:00 a.m on Tuesday, running close to 15hours. the park is situated at sabongari in fagge local government. I must state that this sabongari has the highest population of igbos, in fact, an igbo man is the local government chairman of fagge local government Kano state. it was shocking to see an igbo man heading a local government in Kano.

Sabongari doesn't look like Kano state, all clubs, hotels, brothels, beer parlor in Kano state has it's headquarter located in Sabongari. Infact you can't buy alcohol in anywhere save sabongari. it is also had to see a church in Kano state except in sabongari.

Sabongari is very safe, more secured that any other part of Kano state. if there is any war in Kano state, the first place the military will protect is sabongari. You will hardly believe you are in Kano state if you visit sabongari. it is in sabongari that a lady can walk without wearing hijab of covering her head. it is in sabongari that you can hold or shake a lady. Sabongari looks exactly like Enugu state.

Dottune:
No worry them go soon call una, we weh dey go for like October nkor?

mrphysics:
Looks like you don't know what is experience. I challenge you to come to Kano state and I will lead you to many places and never will you pass five houses without seeing a mosque. Do you think I came here to lie. This post wasn't even for front-page.

Everything I posted here is correct save the one I was corrected which is that the local government chairman of fagge is not an igbo man rather the councillor of sabongari which if you examine very well you will see it was just an interference of truth.

EColeJnr:
Hehehe..

It's like you are the introverted type who hardly explore the outside world..

I've been in Kano for over seven years now (I'll soon be leaving to Benin City )... And I can tell you the only conservative areas are the areas where a large chunk of the inhabitants are Hausas..

Areas with foreigners like Naszarawa GRA.. are free.. lots of clubs and parties .. Chinese restaurants where pork is eaten freely..

Hmmmm.. you nor too flex my brother

mrphysics:
in Kano state, smoking is prohibited and smokers are been hunted by Isbar or what they call themselves. But.the truth remains that this things are sold in secrets. I have gone round Nassarawa, nd I haven't seen any place that these things are been sold. infact I have asked my students in Nasarawa and they all directed me to sabongari. Anyway, am not interested in clubs or alcohol now. I am.looking for a Place of secondary assignment. do you have one?

mrphysics:
No be lie brother. The worst is that they can get angry at any time.

I once told a keke man that am going to a FILLING STATION and he took me to a POLICE station.

saintkash:
so many lies in ur story mr physics....... have u been to badawa, brigade, dakata etc? u know little about kano but yet u paint a picture of u know so much. .... if u don't mind I can hook up with you n take u around to clear ur doubt. ....

softsee:
when was the last time u heard abt any religious crisis in kano? Talkless of the recent BH attacks, kano was peaceful in recent years.... Proudly indegene of kano... My lagos experience is coming soon... I would like to meet u personally as we re all for sem purpose, servin oir country.. I studied industrial chemistry at BUK... Talk to me on WhatsApp, i ll soon be in kano, I'm sure i ll make u love to spend some more years in kano after ur NYSC 08036563003

Chriswazo:
Hmmmmm, mrphysics i accept your appraisal of Kano social infrastructural development just because you have stayed there, i don't know if you have been to Kadunna, am not saying this categorically because i have not been there myself but from information from my northern friends that have been in the two states and as well my lecturer, a Jos man said the same about Kadunna being the same, this my lecturer have been to all northern states and more than 30 states of the country, i won't forget how he compared the two states before coming to conclusion. Mrphysics, i sell at shopping center Aba and have many northern customers and friends and i have tried to find out from them and to a very large extent, they said Kadunna is far more beautiful than Kano but that Kano is very rich, no wander 80% of them comes from Kano. I have stayed in Bauchi and while there, I asked some of my northern friends and they all said i should not even compare Kadunna beauty with any northern city, not even Jos talk more of Kano. So let me ask you sir, have you stayed in Kadunna?

mrphysics:
Oga that's your theory, it's not practical, try it outside sabongari and you will be stoned to death.

fiizznation:
Ok since your entire kano narrative is solely about your personal "experiences", then maybe, just maybe we should just leave it like that. But on the contrary, you need to explore kano state more and understand their ways of life, people, language and culture. From your writeup, one can easily detect the fact that you are a promiscuous person who is relatively new in kano state. You want to flex my Hausa/Fulani sisters but it hasn't been really easy for you. Funny. Well if I were currently in kano state now, maybe I would have connected you to one or two very good girls that will like you genuinely and not those shisha-codaine smoking/taking girls you want to chase about. You should also open up a little bit, I view your posts like that of a person that is afraid of his immediate environs. Nobody is going to chop off your hands just because you like a girl there. Just remember, fornication is detested so much in that part of the north. Islam frowns at it and our culture forbids it.
I like the way you write, it's impeccable!

But in all, I wish you all the best in kano state and I pray you enjoy your stay there. Btw I'm from kano state.

And please before you complete your service there, I will like you to know the meaning of this unique phrase; Kano tumbin giwa, koda mai kazo anfika