Clarion

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

By Ali Umar Faragai

We experience difficulties, hurdles, setbacks in every walk of life so do not get disheartened when things go wrong. Keep moving towards your goal. Each and every one of us faces problems that we find difficult to overcome.

We worry about the uncertainties of our life and future. But adapting a negative approach or giving up hope is not the solution to a problem. In order to handle challenges in a positive way, we should have a positive approach towards all situations in life.

The positive approaches towards every situation are the main ingredients that enabled Engr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso achieved and completed so many difficult tasks in life. He is versatile and industrious. He believes everyone in the society is hardworking and educated too.

The recent utterances of the current President can be considered hate speech towards Nigerian youth whom he regards uneducated, lazy people waiting for free oil money. The statement caused him lose 90% of his supporters and instantly gave a compelling success to the presidential ambition of Kwankwaso.

We now celebrate tough times passing by, giving way to happy and good times. There is always a bright sunshine after the dark night as the emperor keep running away.

2019; The one that ultimately matters most.

By Ali Umar Faragai

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right, and from all indication God's time is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.

He who fears the sun will not become the chief, Engr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is now the only credible and reliable Presidential Candidate in All Progressive Congress (APC), that is why Last week alone I received not Less than 2,500 emails from people and organisations around the world in reply to an article written about his Presidential ambition. People are eager, desires are burning to see mandate is given to this gentleman.

Majority of the emails asked me what qualities did #Kwankwaso posses above others? A blogger Musa Abdullahi Sufi compiled the answers in his blog titled "My thinking for development" in which he wrote: #Kwankwaso posses the best qualities ever among which; he is not corrupt, he is open minded, he is prudent, he pledged reforming the government system, etc this can be prove during his tenure as Governor of Kano state.

I am not officially holding brief for #Kwankwansiyya and Rabiu Musa kwankwaso hence I can't answer so many mails that asked me, what can he offer? How will he tackle Nigerian economic recession, Insecurity & related issues? But I know "we don't laugh because we are happy, we are happy because we laugh." (William James)

AS PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI REJECTED SECOND TERM TENURE. By: Ali Umar Faragai  As President Buhari rejected the motion for second term tenure during APC national caucus meeting in Abuja, therefore Senator Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso will takeover and continue from where he stop. As a former governor of Kano state and now Senator representing Kano central he don't need much bio introduction. Kwankwaso has the wisdom, vision & values, charisma, intelligence, and skill Nigerians need, in fact he shared similarities with President Buhari, all the positive aspiration expected from Buhari same will be achieve with Kwankwaso as President of Nigeria. Kwankwaso organized his time around the true priorities of life, therefore it is not easy to say NO when there is a deeper YES burning within the mind of so many Nigerian. Nigerian are fully aware that leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire electorate and the general public.  Thus “Galton’s Hereditary Genius theory (1869) concluded that leadership was inherited. In other words, leaders were born, not developed.” This notable conclusion lent great initial support for the notion that leadership is rooted in characteristic of the leader or his bloodline, so Leadership is characterized in the bloodline of ENGR RABIU MUSA KWANKWASO, These theory has given us the support to present him as the perfect replacement for President Muhammadu Buhari in the coming 2019 election.

LAIFIN BUHARI NE!! LAIFIN BUHARI NE!!! Duk wata wahala ta man fetur da yan najeriya suka shiga laifin ya rataya a wuyan Buhari, laifinsa ne, babu wani dalili kana shugaba zaka zuba ido kana gani wadansu yan tsirarin masu harkar kawo mai suna cutar yan kasarka. Misali ta tabbata cewar kullum sai anyi wa tankoki 1200 login Mai domin sayarwa ga jama'a amma har yanzu babu a gidajen mai sai dai kaga ana Bayarwa N210 lita daya. A matsayinka na shugaban kasa kamata yayi kasaka a kama, a kwace irin wadannan gidajen mai sannan kuma A YANKE HUKUNCIN KISA GA WADANDA AKA SAMU DA LAIFI sanadiyyar kashe jama'a da suke ta hanyar gallazawa. Ina rokonka idan wannan aiki yayi maka tsauri toh kabani damar ta hanyar dorani a matsayin kaga aiki da cikawa.

COPIED: A CLARION CALL FOR IGBOS TO RESTORE IMAGE.

A CLARION CALL FOR US (IGBOS) TO RESTORE OUR IMAGE: There is a dangerous trend I have noticed in this country and I wish to appeal to all well meaning Igbo people all over the world to stand up and help to restore our image as a region. Each time I listen to Radio programs or read comments on Facebook, Twitter etc, I notice that people who appear to be defending corruption these days are mostly people from our region. We are good people, highly creative and industrious. We were trained with high moral values, and were taught to always conduct ourselves in ethical and professional manner. Our culture (Omenala) abhor evil, evil acts and evil people. Therefore, my heart bleeds each time I see my people openly defending corruption, thereby giving us bad image in the country. Abacha's son and some of the people who served under him were incarcerated for many years, I didn't see any Northerner shout witch-hunt.... I can bet you, if IBB, Atiku etc are arrested today, no Hausa person will protest. Dasuki has been held for some months now, no northerner has openly come out to protest. Over 100 members of the Shiite group were killed last month by the Nigerian military, till date I've not heard the Hausas shouting "witch-hunt".... meanwhile, we all know what would have been the case if the Biafra protesters were treated the same way the Shiite members were treated. When OBJ was president, the people that criticized him the most were the Yorubas. He openly disgraced Tafa Balogun and some other prominent Yorubas for corruption and no yoruba person made any noise. Bode George was jailed some years ago and no Yoruba person shouted witch-hunt.... I can go on and on and on..... even recently Olu Falae was fingered in the arms deal scandal, and the Yorubas have not spared him. But anytime GEJ's name is mentioned for the way he mismanaged our economy, my people will jump out in his defense.... when did we loose our sense of morality to this extent??? When did we go this low as a people??? Are we now proud of evil??? All over the world, people are held to account for their stewardship when they leave office. Because if there are no consequences for corruption then the whole world will be like a zoo. Sadly, in Nigeria we are shamelessly supporting evil and making excuse for corrupt people. People who say don't talk about GEJ or don't blame GEJ seem not to understand the dangerous path they are taking our country to. This is the first time this is happening in the history of Nigeria.... PMB can also decide to loot our treasury and go and if we protest, the northerners will say he is past we should focus on the future.... the next president will also come and loot and go and this evil trend will continue till the country will finally collapse right before us. I know that so many people will attack me and accuse me of all sorts for daring to write/make this post, but I would rather say the truth and please God than keep quiet in the face of obvious evil just for fear of being abused/abused. Let it be on record that I spoke out at a time like this when some people are giving our region bad image. There are times when silence is not golden. Evil thrive when good people keep silence. We are good people and we must arise to salvage our image and restore National and international trust. Nigeria is bigger than GEJ or PMB. Nigeria should be more important to us than PDP or APC. It's not compulsory for everybody in the country to support the president or the party in power, but it's important to criticize objectively. Be a catalyst, not an enemy of state. God in His infinite wisdom inspired His people to write the Bible, He didn't ask them to write about leaders who succeeded alone, He also inspired them to write about the Rulers who failed, so that we can learn from them. All over the world leaders are remembered for good or for bad. Mahatma Ghandi, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Nelson Mandela, Olusegun Obasanjo, Bill Clinton, Abacha, Martin Luther King, IBB, Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin etc have all lived and some are dead but they are all still being remembered for their successes and failures.. this is why it's important to always utilize your opportunities very well so that you will be remembered for good after you exit from office/earth. GEJ failed and he will always be on the wrong side of history (just like most of our past rulers in Nigeria) so no one should tell me not to talk about him anymore, because there is no future if you don't properly analyze the past and learn from it. When a child falls down, he stands up and continue running, but when an adult falls down, he will look back and understand what made him fall and address it before taking any step further. Wisdom is profitable to direct.

A Nigerian Soldier In Maiduguri Posted this.

Ado Bala (a soldier in the Nigerian Army) posted: "To God Be The Glory...I was in the company of Col E.Odeh, Mjr. Y M. Isa. Brig. A. Adegoke. While at a junction near an area called Gonge 1 in Maiduguri town, a girl of about 8yrs old came towards us with a rubber bucket of 5 liter container size with pure water (satchet water) on the surface while beneath the water, the container was filled up with 2 kg of samtex improvised explosive. She move near me and I said to her in Hausa "Ke ina zuwa ai babu hanya!" ("Hey girl where are you going there's no road"wink "The young girl replied in Hausa: "Wancan ne ya ce in kawo muku" (Meaning - "It's that man that said I should bring you this water"wink I said "drop it on that sand! Luckily the girl dropped it and I was about 12 meters away from her. I noticed the young man she was pointing at and I hurriedly ordered for his arrest while he was trying to dodge. I shouted to my colleagues to pan out and I took the little girl away quickly for safety. Luckily, the device didn't explode and the bokoboy is now in custody. Imaging the man just met the little girl on the street she was sent by her mother to go and buy foodstuff at a nearby shop. I asked the mother not to send her out again, the mother started crying and told us that the girl just returned from an Arabic primary school near by. Let's us all be very vigilante. MAY GOD PROTECT US ALL!" http://www.nationalhelm.com/2016/01/soldier-shares- near-death-experience.html

WE NEED ANSWER FROM IGBO PEOPLE.

We need the answer from Igbo People. “They say they are marginalised but they have not defined the extent of marginalisation. Who is marginalising them? Where? Do you know? Choosing a minister is not a matter of ethnicity, it is a matter of the constitution. I am limited by what the constitution says that there must be a member of the executive council from each state. There is a lot of partisan politics in it. Who is the Minister of State for Petroleum? Is he not an Igbo? Who is the governor of the CBN? Is he not an Igbo? Who is the Minister of Labour? Who is the Minister of Science and Technology? What do they want? I stood elections and I won, I am limited by the constitution, I have a member of every state in the Federal Executive Council and I have to listen to them when I sit as chairman. That is the limit the constitution gave me”. -PMB Lets live in peace, hence peace makers inherit the earth.

Dr Ahmad Abubakar Gumi wrote this My Brother Ibrahim El-Zakzaky: it's not too late to repent. After registering my condolences to the recent loss of your three children who were gunned down by some elements in the military, I find it an obligation to help you see that some of your actions too are the contributing factors in this unfortunate avoidable tragedy. What I fear most for you and your followers is that the consequence of this tragedy may further alienate your group from the mainstream society and create a cult -if it's not already one - with disastrous consequences on you, your followers and the nation at large. For you especially, on the Day of Judgment you will have your account to answers. My brother you have brought a lot of bad innovations among Nigerian Muslims that rather than unite the Muslims are further entrenching the divide without any added value to the worldly development nor the hereafter, but rather with serious theological implications in the hereafter. What triggered my attention to your group now is the most recent close encounter I made with a procession of your followers on the highway from Kano to Zaria yesterday 8th Dec. 2014 on my way to Dutse. About four to six thousand youth and children trekking long distance for hours. I gave a two hour lecture in Duste and met them still trekking on my way back. I cannot understand under which civil or religious law gave you the right and liberty to block one side of the double carriage road forcing motorists to cramp each other dangerously on one lane. If your actions is to propagate your creed, I am telling you, you will only attract the poor young ignorant miscreants of the society. Never the sane except of course the disgruntled. The delinquency of your followers and the disturbance of public peace is what makes you and them an easy target of the authority. This happening when you can as well do very well without such unscrupulous public misbehavior. Disruption of traffic flow is in fact a sign of unfaithfulness and lack of civilization. In a Hadith narrated by Muslim, the noble prophet -Alaihis Salatu was Salam- said: "Faith has seventy something or sixty something branches. The best of it is the testimony that there is no diety to worship except Allah and the least of it is removal of harm from the road and shyness is also a branch of faith." And Al-bukhari narrated "that the prophet himself use to remove injurious things and dirt from the road". All this to make the road and traffic safe and smooth. This is the good example you should copy. But unfortunately, instead of that, you are doing exactly the opposite by blocking roads and forcing vehicles to dangerously face each other on one lane displaying arrogance and lawlessness. Young men brandishing knives and unsheathed swords, beating their chest, carrying incitful placards and chanting hate songs. How can you be the good servants of Allah when you are exactly opposite of what the Quran described them? Allah said: "And the servants of the Merciful Allah are they who walk on the earth in humbleness, and when the ignorant address them, they say: Peace. * And they who pass the night prostrating themselves before their Lord and standing. * And they who say: O our Lord! turn away from us the punishment of hell, surely the punishment thereof is a lasting * Surely it is an evil abode and (evil) place to stay. * And they who when they spend, are neither extravagant nor parsimonious, and (keep) between these the just mean. * And they who do not call upon another god with Allah and do not slay the soul, which Allah has forbidden except in the requirements of law and justice, and (who) do not commit fornication and he who does this shall find a requital of sin; * The punishment shall be doubled to him on the day of resurrection, and he shall abide therein in abasement; * Except him who repents and believes and does a good deed; so these are they of whom Allah changes the evil deeds to good ones; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. * And whoever repents and does good, he surely turns to Allah a (goodly) turning. * And they who do not bear witness to what is false, and when they pass by what is vain, they pass by nobly. * And they who, when reminded of the communications of their Lord, do not fall down thereat deaf and blind. * And they who say: O our Lord! grant us in our wives and our offspring the joy of our eyes, and make us guides to those who guard (against evil). * These shall be rewarded with high places because they were patient, and shall be met therein with greetings and salutations.* Abiding therein; goodly the abode and the resting-place." Q25/ 63-76. How can you be the good servants of Allah when you call other human beings beside him. We saw your placards calling: Ya Hussein. Hussein the Son of Ali - May Allah be pleased with them and all the companions- is dead. He can never answer your call and he will never. He will also deny you on the day of Judgment for calling him. The best you can do for any dead person is to pray for Allah's mercy upon him. Allah said: "And who is in greater loss than he who calls besides Allah upon those that will not answer him till the day of resurrection and they are heedless of their call? * And when men are gathered together they shall be their enemies, and shall be deniers of their worshipping (them)." Q46/5-6 My Brother, you have already lost three children on this path to perdition and shirk, so please repent and don't capitalize on the ignorance of our gullible youth to mislead them. If you don't correct them now, when you die, Allah will not forgive you for whatever deviation they may add to yours. "That they may bear their burdens entirely on the day of resurrection and also of the burdens of those whom they lead astray without knowledge; now surely evil is what they bear." Q16/25. My Brother, I write you this open letter for others also not necessarily in your sect to get admonition. It is never intended to trigger a sectarian argument. It's about public order and mannerism. May Allah guide us all to his pleasure and give us the courage to revert back to the truth and what is righteous. Amin Dr AHMAD GUMI

PETROL FOR FREE

A petrol station, Alkad and Sons Nigeria Limited, situated along Olorunsogo, Ilorin, Kwara state capital suffered heavy loss yesterday, November 23 as the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) gave out their fuel to motorists and motorcyclists free of charge. Daily Trust reports that the surveillance team of the DPR caught the station hoarding a total of 2300 litres of petrol, following a tip off. The station had allegedly told buyers that it had exhausted its stock but when the team led by Salvation Philip, the operation controller of DPR got there, they discovered the station had 2300 litres of fuel. Another station, Nasmut Nigeria Limited, located in Otte, Asa local government area of the state was found hoarding a large volume of petrol also. Philip ordered that the commodity be given to members of the public free, saying he was acting in accordance with the directive of Minister of State for Petroleum. He said: “ We are out for surveillance because of the situation on ground and we want to make sure that the fuel that comes in is distributed to commuters. When we got to this place (Alkad), we dug and discovered that they (management of the station) were hoarding 2300 litres of fuel. So, we are simply enforcing the ministerial directive. We are giving the fuel free to fellow Nigerians that need it. It is a critical time we have to utilize what is available. This is the second station so far we caught hoarding .” According to him, it would serve a warning to others hoarding or intending to hoard petroleum product. Philip added that anybody caught hoarding, diverting or flouting petroleum laws and regulations would be made to face the law. In past weeks, Nigerians have been groaning over the increasing scarcity of fuel across the country, with petrol stations hoarding the product and black marketers selling at exorbitant prices. Last week, Ibe Kachikwu, the minister of state for petroleum resources ordered the DPR to seal off fuel stations found to be hoarding petroleum products and give out the petroleum free to the public. source:https://www.naij.com/647048-dpr-distributes-hoarded-fuel-motorists-free-charge.html

The British Monarchs' Visit To French Embassy By Jaafar Jaafar The Brits, who midwifed and christened this country "Nigeria", enslaved our forefathers, looted our resources, forced us to speak English and compelled us to adopt their laws and nurtured us until we reached puberty in 1960, never found it important to sympathize with us when terrorists killed at least 15,000 Nigerians. I may be wrong, but let me know if they ever visited the Nigerian High Commission in London to register condolences when estimated 2,000 Nigerians perished in Baga town after terrorists' attacks. But the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge today visited the French Embassy in London to sign a book of condolence over Paris attacks, in which 130 people died. "To all those who have died and were injured in the heartless attacks in Paris, and to all the people in France: Nos plus sincères condoléances" - William and Catherine. #Zuckerberg is not alone!

Jaafar Jaafar wrote: Letter to Mark Zuckerberg Dear Sir, I write to register my complaint over your company's failure to identify with Nigerians in times of tragedy, but rather chose to identify with other nations. Sir, I don't want to believe your bias was informed by the superiority the races you often identify with. In any of our recurring tragedies, either when we were bombed in our sanctuaries or social gatherings, Facebook never identified with Nigeria. While my heart goes to the French over last night's terrorist attacks that led to the death of at least 120 people, I couldn't but lash at the folly of Facebook for failure to identify with Nigeria when an estimated 15,000 Nigerians were killed by terrorists in round-the-clock attacks in eight years. I notice a smashing theme you created for your 1 billion users to use in order to identify with a particular people. You are even more effusive when you pin the banner on our doorstep for easy use. When Boko Haram terrorists attacked Baga town in January this year, the death toll was estimated at 2,000. This never melted your company's heart to create an instant theme for your 1 billion consumers to identify with Nigeria. Let me remind you that in a single attack on Kano city in January 2012, at least 185 lives perished, and in Bama town in February 2014, at least 120 Nigerians were massacred. In one fell swoop in November 2014, Boko Haram bombed 220 Nigerians at a mosque in Kano city, 50 worshippers bombed at Madalla church in 2011, and in February 2014, at least 60 students were slain at a Yobe school. Your company didn't identify with us despite our loyalty to your network. Let me also remind you that at a weekend in January 2014, terrorists' attacks on eight Borno villages left 150 dead. Facebook blinked over it – perhaps because we are not the same as the French. On May 20, 2014, car bombs left a gory sight at Jos bus terminal and a market. 118 people were declared dead. We posted the pictures on Facebook, but you turned your eyes away. Even #BringBackOurGirls movement, agitating for the release of 224 school girls abducted by terrorists, failed to prick the conscience of your company to identify with Nigeria. We posted every activity, every sit-out and every march on your network, but you blinked over it. As a company to gives equal opportunity and discourages racism, I urge you to identify with not only Nigerians but Africans in their trying times. Attached herewith are two copies of Nigerian flags for your perusal and consideration. Best regards, Jaafar Jaafar

SANUSI IN COURT.

Sanusi was dragged before the court by his Uncle, Alhaji Salim Abubakar Bayero over his alleged plan to demolish some historical structures in the palace to build offices for district heads. A High Court in Kano on Friday restrained the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi ll from demolishing any historical structure within the palace pending the determination of the substantive application filed before it by the emir’s uncle. Sanusi was dragged before the court by his Uncle, Alhaji Salim Abubakar Bayero over his alleged plan to demolish some historical structures in the palace to build offices for district heads. Other parties in the case are the Kano Emirate Council and the Attorney General of Kano state. A copy of the restraining order sited by Daily Trust correspondent was contained in a one-page interim injunction dated 30th October, 2015, signed by the Kano state Director of Litigation. The order reads in parts; “That an order for interim injunction is hereby made restraining Emir Muhammadu Sanusi ll and Kano Emirate Council, the 1st and 2nd defendants in the case from demolishing and or tampering with any structure in the Kano emir’s palace (Gidan Rumfa) by virtue of being ‘Yan Fulani or Bayin Sarki pending the determination of the substantive application.” According to the statement of claim with suit number K/386/2015, the plaintiff is a grandson of the 10th emir of Kano, late Sarki Abdullahi Bayero. The plaintiff claimed that the emir was bent on demolishing and destroying some structures at Ka’iya and Kachako sections as well as the graveyard of some past emirs of Kano located within the palace. He told the court that the purpose for the demolition was to build offices for district heads, arguing that such action has never happen in the history of Kano where district heads have their offices within the palace. Abubakar further informed the court that quit notices had already been issued to some occupants of the marked sections by the emir. The presiding Judge, Justice A.T Badamasi has slated the case for November 12, 2015 for hearing of the motion on notice. http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/bayero-s-son-sues-sanusi-over-planned-demolition-of-emire-palace/117167.html

Back benchers stand up!!

It is also corruption when both upper and lower chamber of the legislative assembly are more concerned with amendment of Chapters and Sections pertaining to Budget(spending) in the Nigerian constitution rather than Penal code. Someone should move a motion in either chambers for the amendment of various Chapters, Sections and some other part of the Penal code to capture the most recent punishment for Rape, Corruption, stealing among others. A sincere legislature will have more emphasis for the plight of the folks not pocket.

JUST OPINION :

Just opinion: The more you give them wider coverage the more they gather strength, power and wisdom to unleash more terror. one of the best way to tackle terrorism in the whole world is to be silent on what they do same time the gallant men are doing what they know best. Media organizations are seriously assisting the spread of these vices, when you look at the type of news & reports by the world media giants such as Aljazeera, CNN, CCTV, BBC, FRANCE24 & NTA there are fewer positive reports, the rest are trash. When you constantly think and report negatives, you will forever live and attracts the same energies. Many people are suspecting terror organizations and some of the world media giants are established to assist in "ROLLING OUT THE RED CARPET" for the arrival of Dajjal. CONT.....

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Reminder or Rewinder

Hello Mr Zuckerberg it has been long we communicate through mail (details not disclosed), I am still reminding you my intention to purchase some shares in Facebook Inc. Thank you.