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  • Sanusi tasks northern leaders on girl-child education

    The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has called on Northern leaders to promote girl-child education in the region.

    Sanusi made the call during the inauguration of Aminu Dabo College of Health Sciences laboratory complex in Kano on Monday.‎

    He urged the leaders to give priority to female education as they did with their male counterparts.

    “The people need to prioritise their commitment toward the education of female just like their male counterpart.‎

    “We appeal to everybody, especially well- meaning individuals irrespective of party differences, to provide the environment to aid girl-child education,” he said.‎

    The monarch also admonished the people of Kano to support each other and work as a team for the overall development of the state.

    He commended the proprietor of the school for his foresight and contribution to the development of education in the state.‎

    Earlier, the proprietor of the school, Alhaji Aminu Dabo, had said the school was established two years ago to promote educational development in the state.

    He said 80 per cent of the institution’s students’ population was women.

    Dabo added that the school would collaborate with Kwara University and another university in Malaysia for degree courses.

    He commended the Kano Emir for his stance on girl-child education and also thanked him for honoring the invitation to the event.

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  • Only 20% Muslims access financial services – World Bank 

    Only 20% Muslims access financial services – World Bank 

    In spite of the ever-growing number of Islamic financial products, less than 20 percent of approximately 1.6 billion Muslims population use conventional banking worldwide.

    However, the increase in the number of Islamic financial products has been identified as being capable of closing the huge financial gap that exists in the Muslim world.

    World Bank Vice President and Treasurer, Ms. Arunma Oteh made this disclosure on Thursday at the World Bank/Islamic Financial Services Board High Level Seminar on Islamic Finance in Washington DC, USA.

    Speaking on the growth of Islamic financial products around the world, Oteh who huddled with the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and now Emir of Kano, Muhammed Sanusi 111 said: “less than 20 percent of approximately 1.6 billion Muslims population use conventional banking worldwide.”

    According to her “this statistic is scary but with the emergence of Islamic financial products there is the tendency that many Muslims will access financial services of their choice.”

    During the last fiscal year, the World Bank she said issued $63.5 billion of bonds across different markets, 22 different currencies and some of them innovative from the developing countries around the world.

    The World Bank, she said: “Also manages about $170 billion assets for 62 clients and our own institution. In some cases, people will like to access financial services but they are unable to do so because of factors that are prohibitive to their faith or lack of financial institutions near their area or lack of trust of financial services providers. Many Muslims around the world refrain from actively accessing the conventional financial services around the world due to their beliefs.”

    She described Islamic finance as “a tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with Islamic investors applying the ethical and quantitative measures in their investment decisions.”

    According to Oteh, “Islamic finance is uniquely well suited to promote infrastructure development which is critical in promoting many of the SDGs from clean water to energy.”

    In his remark, the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi lamented that deficient infrastructure cost in Africa results in two percent reduction in growth each year. However, the growing Islamic financial products he said presents “strong potentials in closing the huge infrastructure gap and there is the need to explore all alternatives in funding the SDGs.”

     

  • Sanusi‘ll bring positive change, says Kwankwaso

    Sanusi‘ll bring positive change, says Kwankwaso

    Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has said great reform will be witnessed with the appointment of Muhammadu Sanusi II as emir .

    The governor spoke when the Emir of Gwandu, Alhaji Mustapha Haruna Rashid, visited the state to commiserate with residents on the demise of the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero and to congratulate Sanusi.

    “Sanusi’s appointment would be a blessing to the people given his rich credentials and exposure. I hope that people would cooperate with him to enable him serve them better,” the governor said.

    Kwankwaso added that the administration is committed to choosing the best for the people.

    The governor thanked the Emir of Gwandu for offering condolences to the people and for making encouraging observations in respect of the on-going physical transformation in the state.

    Alhaji Rashid praised the governor for choosing a credible successor and for managing the riot that erupted after the monarch was named.

    He said in 1915 there was 40 days of rioting, when one of his great grandfathers was appointed Emir.

  • Sir Ahmadu Bello: 51 years after

    Sir Ahmadu Bello: 51 years after

    SIR: Tomorrow marks 51 years since Sardauna Ahmadu Bello was brutally asassinated alongside with his dear wife by soldiers who took over the reins of government.

    Ahmadu Bello will continue to be remembered by generations upon generations because of his selfless service to the northern region. It is on record that he paved the way for the development of the region during and after the keen struggle for the attainment of the country’s independence.

    Sardauna’s leadership greatly added value to the development of the region and its people of diverse ethnic backgrounds. He was one leader that embraced all the people of the north irrespective of their tribe or religion. No wonder he had in his kitchen cabinet, the likes of late Micheal Audu Buba, late Sunday Awoniyi, late Pastor David Lot and a host of others from minority tribes in the north. His motto was anchored on work and worship. The core civil service under his leadership devoted a lot of time to ensure that the north caught up with the rest of the country in development. It was based on this that the policy of manpower development was initiated. This saw the training of northerners in some of the world best schools especially in Britain.

    If the successive generations of northern leaders had carried on from where the late Sardauna Ahmadu Bello stopped, the north would have been a different story today and the kind of distrust and misgivings that is prevalent would have been history.

    What preoccupies the mindset of today’s northern leaders is accumulation of ill-gotten wealth to the detriment of the people. The late Sardauna did not believe in accumulation of wealth. At his death in the hands of the mutineers, he left behind only a mud house and no fat account in any bank.

    He laid the foundation for the building of a virile and cohesive north despite its heterogeneous nature with more than 200 ethnic nationalities. He also held the entire north under one umbrella despite the divergent tribes in the region.

    He did not condone any kind of misdemeanor. He deposed the then Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi who was his bosom friend when he was found wanting in the discharge of his responsibility.

    Above all, he cared less about his personal comfort and that of his family. Today, he is being eulogised for his superlative performances as the first and only Premier produced by the north. Fifty-one years have gone by, but he is still fondly remembered by the old and the young.

    • Usman Santuraki,

    Jambutu, Jimeta-Yola.