#Professor A. D. Yahaya

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Democracy, good governance and the national integration, By Kayode Fayemi

Democracy, good governance and the national integration, By Kayode Fayemi

As a site and in its uses after the passing of its occupant, Mambayya House serves the important purpose of celebrating that inimitable champion of the working poor, the late Mallam Aminu Kano. The popular name by which the place is known, namely Mambayya House, is derived from the nickname of his late mother. The Sa’adu Zungur Auditorium in which this lecture is taking place is named after one…

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Outstanding political scientist – Buhari reacts to Yahaya’s death

Outstanding political scientist – Buhari reacts to Yahaya’s death

President Muhammadu Buhari has paid tribute to Professor A. D. Yahaya, a one-time President of the Nigerian Political Science Association, who breathed his last on Saturday and was buried in Abuja.In a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, and made available to DAILY POST on Saturday, Buhari described the late scholar as an…

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Outstanding political scientist - Buhari reacts to Yahaya’s death

Outstanding political scientist – Buhari reacts to Yahaya’s death

President Muhammadu Buhari has paid tribute to Professor A. D. Yahaya, a one-time President of the Nigerian Political Science Association, who breathed his last on Saturday and was buried in Abuja. In a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, and made available to DAILY POST on Saturday, Buhari described the late scholar as an…

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'He was extraordinary human being:' presidency mourns Prof. Yahaya

‘He was extraordinary human being:’ presidency mourns Prof. Yahaya

President Muhammadu Buhari has paid tribute to a one-time President of the Nigerian Political Science Association, Professor A. D. Yahaya who breathed his last on Saturday and was buried in Abuja. The President, in statement issued by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu on Saturday described the late scholar as an “extraordinary human being, outstanding political scientist and academic who played…

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Ramadan 2019: Sultan asks Nigerian Muslims to look out for new moon

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs has released the statement below, detailing modalities for the sighting of the new moon to signal the end of the 2019 Ramadan fast. The statement by the NSCIA Deputy Secretary-General, Salisu Shehu, a professor, also detailed the contact telephone and email addresses of 30 top Muslim clerics across the country that should be contacted by anyone who sights the new crescent. “Following the advice of the National Moon Sighting Committee (NMSC), the President-General enjoins the Nigerian Muslim Ummah to search for the crescent of Shawwal 1440 AH immediately after sunset on Monday, June 3, 2019 equivalent to Ramadan 29, 1440 AH. If the crescent is sighted by Muslims of impeccable character on the said evening, His Eminence would declare Tuesday, June 4, 2019 as the first day of Shawwal and the day of ‘idul fitr,” the statement said. “If, however, the crescent is not sighted that day, then, Wednesday, June 5, 2019 automatically becomes the first day of Shawwal, 1440 AH and the day of ‘idul fitr. “Muslims all over the country are hereby enjoined to be on the lookout for the directive of His Eminence, the President-General of NSCIA, on the termination of this year’s Ramadan fast. SEE FULL STATEMENT AND CONTACT DETAILS OF THE PERSONALITIES BELOW. END OF RAMADAN 1440AH (2019G) FAST AND ‘IDUL-FITR CELEBRATIONS ۞يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الْأَهِلَّةِۖ قُلْ هِيَ مَوَاقِيتُ لِلنَّاسِ وَالْحَجَّ “They ask you, , about the new moons. Say, “They are measurements of time for the people and for Hajj.”(Al-Baqarah 2: 189) هُوَ الَّذِي جَعَلَ الشَّمْسَ ضِيَاءً وَالْقَمَرَ نُورًا وَقَدَّرَهُ مَنَازِلَ لِتَعْلَمُوا عَدَدَ السِّنِي��َ وَالْحِسَابَۚ “It is He who made the sun a shining light and the moon a derived light and determined for it phases – that you may know the number of years and account .” (Yunus 10:5) وَمِنْ آيَاتِهِ اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ وَالشَّمْسُ وَالْقَمَرُۚ لَا تَسْجُدُوا لِلشَّمْسِ وَلَا لِلْقَمَرِ وَاسْجُدُوا لِلَّهِ الَّذِي خَلَقَهُنَّ إِن كُنتُمْ إِيَّاهُ تَعْبُدُونَ “And of His signs are the night and day and the sun and moon. Do not prostrate to the sun or to the moon, but prostate to Allah, who created them, if it should be Him that you worship.” (Fusilat 41:37)

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), under the leadership of its President-General and Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alh. Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, CFR, mni, felicitates with the entire Muslim Ummah in Nigeria and all over the world on this year’s Ramadan Fast. The Council prays that the Almighty Allah accept it from us as an act of Ibadah. Amin. Following the advice of the National Moon Sighting Committee (NMSC), the President-General enjoins the Nigerian Muslim Ummah to search for the crescent of Shawwal 1440 AH immediately after sunset on Monday, June 3, 2019 equivalent to Ramadan 29, 1440 AH. If the crescent is sighted by Muslims of impeccable character on the said evening, His Eminence would declare Tuesday, June 4, 2019 as the first day of Shawwal and the day of ‘idul fitr. If, however, the crescent is not sighted that day, then, Wednesday, June 5, 2019 automatically becomes the first day of Shawwal, 1440 AH and the day of ‘idul fitr. Muslims all over the country are hereby enjoined to be on the lookout for the directive of His Eminence, the President-General of NSCIA, on the termination of this year’s Ramadan fast. In addition to established and traditional Islamic leaders in each locality, members of the National Moon Sighting Committee who can be contacted for information and clarification are:

Search: S/N NAME PHONE NO. E-MAIL 1 Sheikh  Dahir Bauchi 08036121311 Sayyadibashir26@yahoo.com 2 Sheikh  Karibullah Kabara 08035537382 malamkabara@yahoo.com 3 Mal. Simwal Usman Jibrin 08033140010 simwaljibril@yahoo.com 4 Sheikh  Salihu Yaaqub 07032558231 Salihumy11@hotmail.com.com 5 Mal. Jafar Abubakar 08020878075 Jaafaraa1434@gmail.com 6 Alh. Abdullahi Umar 08037020607 waziringwandu@yahoo.com 7 Prof. J.M. Kaura 08067050641 Jmkaura56@yahoo.com 8 Dr. Bashir Aliyu Umar 08036509363 Baumar277@gmail.com 9 Sheikh  Habeebullah Adam Al-Ilory 08029032575 habibelilory@ymail.com 10 Ustaz Nurudeen Ibrahim 08027091623 Nurudeen.a.o.ibrahim@gmail.com 11 Muhammad Rabiu Salahudeen 08035740333 muhammadrabiusalahudeen@gmail.com 12 Sheikh  Abdur-Razzaq Ishola 08023864448 hustaz@yahoo.com 08051111063 sheikh@al@abrartravels.com 13 Sheikh Abdur Rasheed Mayaleke 08035050804 jentleasad@yahoo.com 14 Dr. Ganiy I. Agbaje 08028327463 08057752980 Ganiy.agbaje@nasrda.gov.ng gagbaje@yahoo.co.uk 15 Gafar M. Kuforiji 08033545208 kuforijiabdulwasiu@gmail.com 16 Prof. Usman El-Nafaty 08062870892 elnafaty@gmail.com 17 Mal. Ibrahim Zubairu Salisu 08038522693 zubairusalisu@yahoo.com 18 Dr. Usman Hayatu Dukku 0805 7041968 udukku@yahoo.com 19 Imam Manu Muhammad 08036999841 limaminmisau@gmail.com 20 Qadee Ahamad Bobboy 08035914285 adamawaemiratecouncil@yahoo.com 21 Prof. Z. I. Oboh Oseni 08033574431 oseni@unilorin.edu.ng wazzioseni@gmail.com 22 Nurudeen Asunogie D. 08033533012 hamdallah1999@yahoo.com 23 Sheikh  Bala Lau 08037008805 08052426880 balalaujibwisnigeria@gmail.com 24 Sheikh  Sani Yahaya Jingir 08065687545 ustaznasirabdulmuhyi@yahoo.com 25 Sheikh  AbdurRahman Ahmad 08023141752 aahmadimam@yahoo.co.uk 26 Muhammad Yaseen Qamarud-Deen 08055322087 crescentgroup2000@gmail.com 27 Sheikh  Lukman Abdallah 08052242252 abuyatamaa@gmail.com 28 Sheikh  Sulaiman Gumi 08033139153 ssgummi@gmail.com 29 Sheikh Adam Idoko 08036759892 imamidoko@gmail.com 30 Alh. Yusuf Nwoha 08030966956 yusufnwoha@gmail.com While reminding the Ummah of the necessity of paying Zakatul-Fitri with the intention of lifting the hearts of the indigent members of the community, the Council urges all to ensure its delivery to the appropriate recipients (i.e. the poor) and guard against its diversion by any agent or intermediary. All media houses in the country are requested to kindly publicise the awaited announcement by His Eminence, the President-General of NSCIA and Sultan of Sokoto. ‘Id Mubarak in advance! Read the full article

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Sanusi The Radical, Sanusi The Emir

Sanusi The Radical, Sanusi The Emir

Sanusi the Radical, Sanusi the Emir, By Jibrin Ibrahim

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My column of June 16, 2014 was entitled “Sanusi II and the Prospects of Radical Emirship”. I started the article with an apology to my teacher and mentor, Professor A. D. Yahaya who taught me that the idea of radicalism and emirship were completely antithetical. The Northern aristocracy, he taught us,…

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Sanusi the Radical, Sanusi the Emir, By Jibrin Ibrahim

Sanusi the Radical, Sanusi the Emir, By Jibrin Ibrahim

My column of 16th June 2014 was entitled “Sanusi II and the Prospects of Radical Emirship”. I started the article with an apology to my teacher and mentor, Professor A. D. Yahaya who taught me that the idea of radicalism and emirship were completely antithetical. The Northern Aristocracy, he taught us, were incorporated into the British system of Native Administration to oppress the people as has…

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ABUJA NATIONAL MOSQUE HAS APPOINTED IMAMS (1) This is in response to ‘Time to appoint Chief Imam for National Mosque’, written by my intimate writer-friend, Ustaz Muhammad Ajah, published in Daily Trust , among other publications, on April 1, 2017. How I qualified the author of the piece I am responding to tells you there is no malice in the piece you are about to read. Ustaz Muhammad Ajah earns my adoration in establishing himself as a writer of repute, exhibiting, in the process, critical thinking as a commentator on burning national issues. I am proud of being on his mailing list which enables me to read his articles prior to their publications. I met Ustaz Ajah at a public function recently where I intimated him of my desire to pen this rejoinder. I should declare, from the outset, that this is not an official response from either the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) or the Abuja National Mosque Management Board. Whatever you read here is what I felt compelled to write as an insider version of Ustaz Muhammad Ajah’s article, as one who has been within the vicinity of the Abuja National Mosque for more than 20 years. ‘Time to appoint Chief Imam for National Mosque’ does not have the DNA of the Muhammad Ajah I know; he must have written it in haste, and thus the product made an alarmist of the author, which he is not. For example, contrary to contents of the article, there is ‘no vacuum in leadership’ as far as the Abuja National Mosque is concerned, before or after the demise of Sheikh Musa Muhammad. And the ‘leadership of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA)’ has not failed in ensuring that the Abuja National Mosque satisfies Shariah conditions for the acceptance, in the sight of Allah, of people’s devotions and other religious ceremonies. The three co-equal deputy chief imams have been undertaking, with diligence, their duties of delivering Khutbah, leading prayers, conducting wedding faatihahs, expounding the teachings of Islaam in daily Magrib-to-Ishaa ta’leems, overseeing funeral arrangements, offering salaatul janaazah on a deceased person, and whatnot. That is the essence of imamship, not only in the Abuja National Mosque, but in all mosques in this Ummah. Once the officiating head of a religious ceremony (imam, deputy imam, or any learned taqiy) is qualified and accepted by the congregation, the ritual is whole and recompensed by Him whose countenance is sought in observing it. Also, I do not know ‘… Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Ibrahim…’ as contained in Ustaz Ajah’s article. For a good writer like my friend, this type of slip reinforces my belief that he wrote the article in haste, as information on such respected personages as Etsu Nupe, Alhaji (Dr)(Brig.Gen) Yahaya Abubakar rtd CFR, is just a click away on the internet. I got the full name here from his Wikipedia entry, by the way. I referred to the three deputy chief imams above as ‘co-equal’ because some people imputed false hierarchy to the trinity of the deputy imams. The appointment letters are identical; all of them are of one and the same position - no one is superior to the other - in so far as the spirit and letter of the appointment document are concerned, as signed and sealed by the late Secretary-General, NSCIA, Alhaji Abdullatif Adegbete, at the behest of His Eminence, the Sultan, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar. There was nothing like the first, second or third deputy chief imam as is being held and disseminated in some quarters. Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi is among the proponents of this alien idea of first, second and third deputy…. the NSCIA does not know this classification! Ustaz Muhammad Ajah has, with a marked preferment, chosen the respected Sheikh Makari, out of the three deputies, all of whom he, however, described as ‘exceptionally qualified’, as the most deserving to be the chief imam for, according to him, (a) being the one ‘who led the first Juma’a service after the death of the Chief Imam’ (b) conducting ‘the wedding of the daughter of President Muhammad Buhari, Zara.’ (c) his ‘uncommon’ Arabic accent, as ‘an associated professor of Arabic’, (may be the writer means Associate Professor). (d) ‘He conducts the Friday sermons without papers, a style of best Imams in the home of knowledge - Egypt, where he graduated from Al-Azhar University, Cairo.’ Let me also state that I maintain very cordial relation with all the deputy chief imams at the Abuja National Mosque. I spoke to all of them before the publication of this rejoinder. I do not prefer any of them above the other in line with the dictates of NSCIA in appointing them. Sheikh Ahmad Onilewura is the eldest of the lot, jovial in his manners, amenable and conscientious. If I were asked to endorse any among the trio, Sheikh Ahmad Onilewura would have been the one. However, I will not. Sheikh Muhammad Kabir Adam has experience in conducting the affairs of the Mosque for being the first Mu’azzin for about three decades, and has served as Acting Chief Imam in 2010 and 2011 when the late Chief Imam, Sheikh Musa Muhammad went for Umrah or Hajj trips. He has been a close friend since the ‘90s when I came to the mosque. We have been on hajj trips on a number of occasions. Sheikh Ibrahim Maqary is a bosom friend (and recently a brother in-law) whom I met in the 90s during my stint at Al-Azhar University for the Dauratul A’immah course. I have not met anybody in my life as humble, amiable, ebullient, and, - if I may add, unassuming - ever-willing to share, with others, the knowledge Allah has bestowed upon him, as Sheikh Ibrahim Makari. When the then candidates were subjected to intense interview and screening for the deputy imamship of the Abuja National Mosque, the late Sheikh Musa Muhammad was preeminently qualified to continue as the Chief Imam, and was thus not ‘requested to undergo’ any ‘thorough screenings’ as stated by Ustaz Muhammad Ajah. Late Sheikh Musa Muhammad it was that established the alternation of leading prayers by the three deputy imams in his absence, which has not been altered in the least till date. What Ustaz Muhammad Ajah listed, therefore, as his reason for advancing Sheikh Makari was just a coincidence that occurred on the first Friday after the late Chief Imam’s funeral in which Sheikh Makari delivered the khutbah and led prayers. Ustaz Ajah was oblivious of the fact that the late Chief Imam, on his death bed, called Sheikh Muhammad Kabir Adam, one of the three deputies, and instructed him to lead the Jumu’ah prayers, just as exemplified by the Prophet, blessings and peace of Allah be upon him, in similar circumstances, a deed among other considerations, that later led to the ascension of Abubakr As-Siddeeq to the Caliphate. There were two versions of Ustaz Muhammad Ajah’s piece - the one he sent by email to his contacts, and the other an edited and Daily Trust-published version in which his reasons (b to d) for preferring Sheikh Makari to others were expunged. Of course conducting the marriage of the President’s daughter should not merit mention amidst the reasons for preferring an imamship candidate. Unknown to Ustaz Ajah, Sheikh Makari led the Jumu’ah prayers on that Friday, but Sheikh Muhammad Kabir Adam conducted the wedding of the President’s daughter. In his self-effacing nature Sheikh Makari will not vie with anyone in trying to conduct marriage for anyone’s offsprings no matter how highly placed they may be. So, even though it was his turn to lead the prayers on that day, and he had, Sheikh Makari did not conduct wedding for the President’s daughter as claimed by Ustaz Muhammad Ajah. I cannot fathom what Ustaz Ajah was trying to emphasise by ‘uncommon Arabic accent’ because I have not heard him speak Arabic to judge his proficiency and what accent may mean to him. We converse in English. But I am sure of one thing: with all the years he spent in Cairo, Sheikh Makari does not speak like an Egyptian. There is no trace of the Misr dialect in his speech. This is not a weakness but a token of discipline and wide intellectual interaction with diverse scholars through their writings. He speaks fushah (classical Arabic) devoid of any accent other than that of an Arabist of northern Nigerian extraction. And delivering extempore (unscripted) khutbah cannot be a paradigm for preferment. Yes, it is the norm in Egypt; hardly will you see an imam with a written khutbah. It is more of a tradition in that citadel of knowledge. In Saudi Arabia or Nigeria for example imams prepare a written khutbah every Friday. We have copies of the Khutbahs of Sheikh Usman Bin Fodiyo and Sheikh Abdullahi Bin Fodiyo. They wrote and read their khutab (plural of khutbah). When I visited Senegal, the imam of Madinah Baye Mosque read one of the khutab of Sheikh Ibrahim Nyas. I hope Ustaz Muhammad Ajah does not place his anointed above Sheikh Usman Bin Fodiyo because of the former’s ad-lib rendering of the khutbah. Another dimension of this article that I found unsettling was the insinuation of politicisation of ‘the selection process’ which ‘has nothing to do with Islam’. I wish my respected brother will expatiate on this, rather than insinuate. It is enough crime to the credit of anyone that he should say what he has no knowledge of. The standard in Islam is to get all the facts before making any comment. Insha Allah, I will make my own observations and give my suggestions on how to go about running the National Mosque effectively. In doing so, I may write what others may disagree with and what may annoy others, still. What is of paramount importance to me in all this is not tribal, sectarian or even fraternal affiliations but the interest of the Ummah, so help me, Allah. http://www.abubakrsiddeeq.com/2017/04/abuja-national-mosque-has-appointed.html