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19/01/2021

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06/04/2020

DUNIYA MAI YA YI YAU GAREKA GOBE WANINKA. Aminu Ado Bayaro. Sarkin kano.

09/03/2020

Muna masu baking cikin sanar da jama'ar cire sarkin Kano sanusi na 2 daga sarautar Kano, Allah yasa hakanne mafi alkhairi a gareshi da jama'ar Kano da kasa Baki daya Amin

20/02/2020

Late Gen sani abacha, and his older sister,may their souls rest in peace amin.

09/12/2019

Nigerian civil war and
role in the Asaba
Massacre
At the start of the Nigerian Civil War,
Mohammed led the newly established 2nd
Infantry Division. [2] The first major act of the
division was to stop the march of Biafran
troops that had overran the Mid-West region
and were marching towards the Western
region. The division repelled the Biafran forces
at Ore, Ondo State and later pushed back the
rebels, driving them out of the Mid-West. The
actions of the division during this period,
mostly in Asaba became a subject of
speculation. In a 2017 book Professors S.
Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli document
the 1967 mass murder of civilians (often
referred to as the Asaba Massacre ) by troops
of the 2nd Division under his command. They
also discuss the events leading up to the
massacre, and its impact on Asaba and on the
progress of the war, as well as other civilian
massacres carried out by soldiers of the 2nd
Division at Onitsha and Isheagu. [5] .
The 2nd division was responsible for the
beating back of the Biafran Army from the
Mid-western region, as well as crossing the
River Niger and linking up with the 1st
Division, which was marching down from
Nsukka and Enugu. However, this was only
achieved after several failed river crossings in
which thousands of troops were killed by
drowning or enemy fire. During his time as
Division Commander, Murtala Muhammed was
implicated in several violations of appropriate
conduct; Lieutenant Ishola Williams, an officer
who served under then Colonel Muhammed
alleged that Muhammed ordered the summary
ex*****on of Biafran prisoners of war. [6]
In June 1968, he relinquished his commanding
position and was posted to Lagos and
appointed Inspector of Signals. In April 1968
he was promoted to colonel.
After the war
Between 1970 and 1971, he attended the Joint
Service Staff College in England, his
supervisor's report attributed him to having ''a
quick agile mind, considerable ability and
common sense. He holds strong views which
he puts forw

03/12/2019

Story of Ota Benga, The
Boy Stolen From Congo
And Caged In A US
Animals Zoo In 1904
AD
In 1904, Ota Benga, a young African boy, was
kidnapped from Congo and taken to the United
States of America. On arrival, he was put in a
zoo with monkeys and was displayed together
with them.
By 1906, he had become popular among the
white folk who go to watch him. On the 9th of
September 1906, the New York Times
published a report about a young African man,
who was put on display in the monkey house
in New York’s largest zoo. The article referred
to him as “a so-called “pygmy”, and they used
the headline “Bushman Shares a Cage with
Bronx Park Apes”. The paper reported that over
500 white folks had gathered that day with
their children to laugh and jeer at Benga.
Reports say that he was 23 years, but still had
the body of a boy.
The outing on the 9th of September was a
good one for the zookeepers because they had
a large turnout. They were expecting the next
ones to be bigger, so they moved the boy to a
much larger cage where he was joined with an
orangutan named Dohang. As the crowd
gathered and made jest of him, he sat still and
stared at them in wonder. He wonders how
could people be so mean to steal him from his
home and treat him like an animal.
AD
It was reported that by the end of that
September of 1906, over 220,000 people had
gone to the zoo to see Benga. One in their right
sense and conscience would wonder what was
so fulfilling in the caging and molesting a
young boy. But no matter how much one
wonders, one would still come to the
conclusion that white-America has no
conscience or soul.
The inhumane and satanic display of Ota
Benga started to spread around the world. But
as expected, the Caucasian world endorsed it
while many Black ministers, scholars, and
persons were angered by the insult of placing a
Black man in a cage with animals.
On the afternoon of September, the 10th, in
1906, a few Black ministers gathered at
Harlem’ Mount Olivet Baptists Church, for an
emerge

02/12/2019

AREWA STAR.Brief historyof colonial rule in northern nigeria.Frederick Lugard proclaimed the protectorate
of Northern Nigeria at Ida on January 1, 1897.
The basis of the colony was the 1885 Treaty
of Berlin , which broadly granted Northern
Nigeria to Britain on the basis of their
protectorates in Southern Nigeria. Hostilities
with the powerful Sokoto Caliphate soon
followed. The Emirates of Kabba, Kotogora and
Illorin were the first to be conquered by the
British. In February 1903, the great fort of
Kano, site of the Kano Emirate , was captured,
followed by Sokoto and much of the rest of its
caliphate shortly after. On March 13, 1903, the
Grand Shura of the Sokoto Caliphate conceded
to Lugard's demands. [1]
Lugard became governor; with limited
resources, he administered the region with the
consent of local rulers. He governed through a
policy of indirect rule, which he developed into
a sophisticated political theory. Lugard left the
protectorate after some years, serving in Hong
Kong , but eventually returned to work in
Nigeria, where he decided on the merger of the
Northern Nigeria Protectorate with Southern
Nigeria in 1914. Agitation for independence
from the radically different Southern
Protectorate, however, led to a formidable split
during the 1940s. The Richards constitution,
adopted in 1945, gave overwhelming autonomy
to the North. This autonomy eventually
included the legislative arenas of foreign
relations and customs policy.
Independence
Northern Nigeria was granted independence on
March 15, 1953, with Sir Ahmadu Bello as its
first Premier. The Northern Peoples Congress
under Sir Ahmadu Bello dominated Parliament,
while the Northern Elements Progressive Union
became the main opposition party.

29/11/2019

AREWA STAR.Nigerian Civil War
The Nigerian Civil War , also known as the
Biafran War and the Nigerian-Biafran War (6
July 1967 – 15 January 1970), was a war
fought between the government of Nigeria and
the secessionist state of Biafra . Biafra
represented nationalist aspirations of the
Biafran people, whose leadership felt they
could no longer coexist with the Northern-
dominated federal government. The conflict
resulted from political, economic, ethnic,
cultural and religious tensions which preceded
Britain's formal decolonization of Nigeria from
1960 to 1963. Immediate causes of the war in
1966 included ethno-religious riots in Northern
Nigeria, [35] a military coup, a counter-coup
and persecution of Igbo living in Northern
Nigeria. Control over the lucrative oil
production in the Niger Delta played a vital
strategic role.
Within a year, the Federal Government troops
surrounded Biafra, capturing coastal oil
facilities and the city of Port Harcourt . The
blockade imposed during the ensuing
stalemate led to mass starvation. During the
two and half years of the war, there were
about 100,000 overall military casualties, while
between 500,000 and 2 million Biafran civilians
died of starvation. [36]
In mid-1968, images of malnourished and
starving Biafran children saturated the mass
media of Western countries . The plight of the
starving Biafrans became a cause célèbre in
foreign countries, enabling a significant rise in
the funding and prominence of international
non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The
United Kingdom and the Soviet Union were the
main supporters of the Nigerian government,
while France , Israel and some other countries
supported Biafra.
Background

27/11/2019

AREWA STAR.like us on facebook. HAUSA KINGDOMS.
The Hausa Kingdoms were a collection of
states started by the Hausa people , situated
between the Niger River and Lake Chad. Their
history is reflected in the Bayajidda legend,
which describes the adventures of the
Baghdadi hero Bayajidda culminating in the
killing of the snake in the well of Daura and
the marriage with the local queen magajiya
Daurama . while the hero had a child with the
queen, Bawo, and another child with the
queen's maid-servant, Karbagari. [17]
Sarki mythology
According to the Bayajidda legend, the Hausa
states were founded by the sons of Bayajidda,
a prince whose origin differs by tradition, but
official canon records him as the person who
married the last Kabara of Daura and heralded
the end of the matriarchal monarchs that had
erstwhile ruled the Hausa people.
Contemporary historical scholarship views this
legend as an allegory similar to many in that
region of Africa that probably referenced a
major event, such as a shift in ruling
dynasties.
Banza Bakwai
According to the Bayajidda legend, the Banza
Bakwai states were founded by the seven sons
of Karbagari ("Town-seizer"), the unique son of
Bayajidda and the slave-maid, Bagwariya.
They are called the Banza Bakwai meaning
Bastard or Bogus Seven on account of their
ancestress' slave status.
Zamfara (state inhabited by Hausa-
speakers)
Kebbi (state inhabited by Hausa-speakers)
Yauri (also called Yawuri)
Gwari (also called Gwariland)
Kwararafa (the state of the Jukun people )
Nupe (state of the Nupe people)
Ilorin (was founded by the Yoruba)
Hausa Bakwai
The Hausa Kingdoms began as seven states
founded according to the Bayajidda legend by
the six sons of Bawo, the unique son of the
hero and the queen Magajiya Daurama in
addition to the hero's son, Biram or Ibrahim, of
an earlier marriage. The states included only
kingdoms inhabited by Hausa-speakers:
Daura :
Kano :
Katsina
Zaria (Zazzau)
Gobir
Rano
Biram :
Since the beginning of Hausa history, t

27/11/2019

entatives and a 109-member Senate.
Fourth Republic
The emergence of democracy in Nigeria on
May 1999 ended 16 years of consecutive
military rule. Olusegun Obasanjo inherited a
country suffering economic stagnation and the
deterioration of most democratic institutions.
Obasanjo, a former general, was admired for
his stand against the Abacha dictatorship, his
record of returning the federal government to
civilian rule in 1979, and his claim to represent
all Nigerians regardless of religion.
The new President took over a country that
faced many problems, including a dysfunctional
bureaucracy, collapsed infrastructure, and a
military that wanted a reward for returning
quietly to the barracks. The President moved
quickly and retired hundreds of military officers
holding political positions, established a blue-
ribbon panel to investigate human rights
violations, released scores of persons held
without charge, and rescinded numerous
questionable licenses and contracts left by the
previous regimes. The government also moved
to recover millions of dollars in funds secreted
to overseas accounts.
Most civil society leaders and Nigerians
witnessed marked improvements in human
rights and freedom of the press under
Obasanjo. As Nigeria works out
representational democracy, conflicts persist
between the Executive and Legislative
branches over appropriations and other
proposed legislation. A sign of federalism has
been the growing visibility of state governors
and the inherent friction between Abuja and
the state capitals over resource allocation. [58]
Communal violence has plagued the Obasanjo
government since its inception. In May 1999
violence erupted in Kaduna State over the
succession of an Emir resulting in more than
100 deaths. In November 1999, the army
destroyed the town of Odi , Bayelsa State and
killed scores of civilians in retaliation for the
murder of 12 policemen by a local gang. In
Kaduna in February–May 2000 over 1,000
people died in rioting over the introduction

25/11/2019

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