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The remains of Aliyu Zaria, the official driver of the late premier of northern region, Ahmadu Bello, was on Thursday laid to rest in Kaduna.
The ceremony was completed at Unguwan Sarki cemetery after the funeral prayers led by Ahmad Gumi at the Sultan Bello’s Mosque, Kaduna.
At the ceremony, the Emir of Zazzau, Ahmad Bamali, who was represented by the ‘Ciroman Zazzau’, Shehu Tijjani, prayed for the forgiveness of the shortcomings of the deceased.
Mr Zaria, also known as ‘Sarkin Mota’, died on Wednesday at the age of 93 in his home in Unguwan Sarki, Kaduna after a brief illness.
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Zazzau emirate is regarded as a key traditional institution in Nigeria with embedded customs. It is an institution whose legitimacy is based on association with traditional governance methods and connected with the Fulani custom. The emirate system is designed to make policy implementation effective and efficient because it is the closest to the community. The feedback provided to the government on the social well-being of the society signals the effects of policies.
“Some of these women don’t have the transport fare to go to the hospital for their drugs, some have no food to eat with their drugs and so I step in to take them to the hospital and take them back home,” she said. “Just recently, a lady drank poison because she tested positive coupled with the fact that her husband abandoned her and the children.
“We cannot allow her to die like that, she is now being treated and after that, she would start to take her drugs,” she further said.
Many women diagnosed with HIV/AIDS are being stigmatized and shunned by family, friends and their communities, so women like Aisha Bello step in to give them hope, mobilize them, counsel them and motivate them never to give up on life.
Latest Nigeria news on [Kagara abduction] Niger State: Ahmad Gumi meet bandits, want blanket amnesty afta students abduction
19 February 2021
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Kaduna based Islamic Scholar, Sheik Ahmad Gumi don ask di Federal Government to give blanket amnesty alias forgiveness to armed bandits and herdsmen wey dey cause kasala nowadays like dem do for Niger Delta militants before-before.
Sheik Gumi give di recommendation as e dey yarn wit tori pipo for Niger state government house, Minna on Friday Morning after a closed door meeting with Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello.
Gumi say if dem give di bandits amnesty and if any of dem kontinu, den dem go punish di pesin.