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The True Origin Of Boko Haram In Nigeria

Nigeria's Organised Islamic Terrorism Problem Did Not Start In 2009. It's A Lot More Insidious Than You Think.In May 2021, A 96 Ye...

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Nigeria's organised Islamic terrorism problem did not start in 2009. It's a lot more insidious than you think.In May 2021, a 96 year-old businessman died in Rome, Italy. In his lifetime, Ahmed Idris Nasreddin might have amassed a personal fortune of close to half a billion dollars, but the death of NASCO Group’s multimillionaire founder barely made the news. At first glance, the only extraordinary thing about his life story was that it embodied the African entrepreneurship dream.Nasreddin was an Eritrean who moved to Jos in Nigeria’s Plateau State, and grew his father’s small manufacturing business into a $460 million conglomerate involved in everything from breakfast cereal and confectionery to pharmaceuticals, real estate and energy. After many years of growth and success, he eventually handed his sprawling business empire over to his son Attia Nasreddin, and retired at an old, satisfied age.In an official statement released after Nasreddin’s death in March, Plateau State governor Simon Lalong said:“NASCO has over the years remained a major employer of labour in Plateau and continues to contribute to the economic prosperity of the State and Nigeria at large through tax revenue and corporate social responsibility.”Well that was the cover story, anyway.In reality, as is so often the case in Nigeria, the gap between the facts and the information released to the public is so wide as to be scarcely believable. What on earth could this shrewd, respectable businessman who looked like he could not hurt a fly have done, to put him in the same article as a story about the world’s deadliest terrorist organisation? Why would the brand he built, which to many Nigerians evokes memories of a beloved childhood breakfast staple, appear in the same sentence as Boko Haram?To answer these questions, our story begins on another continent in 1955, some 8 years before his father would move to Nigeria and establish NASCO Group.A Scholar From ZamfaraThe year is 1955, and a 33 year-old Islamic scholar from Gummi in modern day Zamfara State has made his way to Mecca for his first Hajj pilgrimage. Alongside him is a certain Ahmadu Bello, who is the Premier of Northern Nigeria. During this trip, the scholar impresses both Ahmadu Bello and the Saudi King Sa’ud with his Arabic translation skills. He rapidly makes a big impression on many locals and clerics in Mecca.These relationships will later become his most valuable asset following the events that take place after his subsequent return to Nigeria. Upon returning to Nigeria, he takes up positions teaching Arabic Studies at Islamic schools in Kano and Kaduna. His style of teaching focuses on educating his students about the differences between Islamic religious doctrine and local customs. Based on his strict Sunni understanding of the Qur’an, he teaches his students to adopt a ‘pure’ Islamic identity at the expense of practises that he considered bid’ah (roughly translated as ‘innovation’ or ‘corruption’).What is a bidah?He also becomes the first Islamic scholar to translate the Qur’an from Arabic into Hausa, which puts him in a uniquely influential position comparable to that of Ajayi Crowther in 19th century southwestern Nigeria. Using this leverage, he becomes an increasingly powerful figure in Northern Nigeria, with his essentialist views on Islamic doctrine gaining popularity. To him, the existing Sufi orders of Northern Nigeria are polluted with bid’ah and unfit for purpose. He becomes well known for attacking the Tijaniya and Qadriyya brotherhoods during his appearances on Radio Kaduna, while advocating for a ‘return’ to ‘Islamic purity.’Following the death of his friend and benefactor Ahmadu Bello, the scholar finds himself in a precarious situation. The new Nigerian federal government led by soldiers has a motive to crack down on anyone who is outspoken and influential. He may be a giant in Northern Nigeria, but he is a giant with feet of clay. His solution is to seek financial, doctrinal and political help from his friends in Mecca. The Saudis, as always, are ready to help.His Saudi backers are keen to use him to espouse the Saudi Arabian state’s official interpretation of Islam, which is based on the work of 18th century Islamic scholar Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab. This fundamentalist doctrine, often known as Wahabbism fits very closely with the teachings of our hero in Northern Nigeria, and he enthusiastically sets about gathering support for this new Saudi-funded project. In the 2009 book ‘The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia,’ historian David Commins says:“The [Saudi-funded Muslim World] League also sent missionaries to West Africa, where it funded schools, distributed religious literature and gave scholarships to attend Saudi religious universities. These efforts bore fruit in Nigeria's Muslim northern region with the creation of a movement (the Izala Society) dedicated to wiping out ritual innovations. Essential texts for members of the Izala Society are Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's treatise of God's unity and commentaries by his grandsons.Reaching out to his erstwhile students across Kaduna and Kano over the course of the 1970s, the scholar-turned-politician slowly builds a coalition of strategically-aligned individuals who will someday become very powerful people in Northern Nigeria. In 1978, one of his prominent students, Sheikh Ismaila Idris takes charge of this increasingly powerful but somewhat unofficial movement, and calls it Jama'atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus Sunnah (Society of Removal of Innovation and Re-establishment of the Sunnah), also known as JIBWIS.Based in Jos and known colloquially as the Izala Movement, this organisation will go on to become the most influential Islamic body in Nigeria over the next few decades. Its members will become some of Nigeria’s most revered Imams and clerics. They will achieve high ranks in the Nigerian Armed Forces.Source: westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/cornflakes-for-jihad-the-boko-haram?r=p0z0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=

God Can Raise Helper For You In The Least Expected Places.

God Can Raise Helper For You In The Least Expected Places.
Yesterday At The Market, I Was Buying Smoked Fish When One Small Girl Ca
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God can raise helper for you in the least expected places.

Yesterday at the market, I was buying smoked fish when one small girl carrying okro passed.

I was standing close to a woman who was also buying fish. The market was about to close.

The woman called on the girl selling the okro and asked how much. The small girl told her 200 each.

The woman told her, you no see say night don reach, if I no buy this you go carry am go home. I go buy am 100 naira each.

The girl was begging her to buy the 3 left for 500 she told her "abeg go. You no want sell. When you ready, come back come meet me."

The girl told her to bring 450 and the woman told her 300 or you carry am go home.

The girl started walking away reluctantly.

Just immediately, my pregnant wife called and said she's craving okro soup that she just saw one on Instagram. U know pregnant women with their urgent demand of food. Even if u late in providing the food they might lost their apatite

Omo shey you grab?

I called the girl back and told her to pack the okro for me.

She told me uncle abeg buy am 400. If I sell am 300, my mama money no go commot. E suppose be 450 but I no wan carry am go home.

I told her to pack them.

The woman was looking at me. She asked the girl. Make I pay 350? This woman bought fish of over 2k so it's not like she didn't have 100 to add.

I told the girl "if I buy the okro 450, your money go commot? She said yes.

Tor! Pack okro make I dey go house.

She packed them. I gave her 500 and told her well done. Use the 50 naira and buy something on your way home.

She jumped up in joy, tossed her tray up and down and ran with so much excitement.

By now, market don close. Okro don finish. Madam dey eye me. Small girl don go house. I don see okro for my pregnant wife. Life goes on.

Sometimes when it seems all hope is lost, hold on a little. Your destiny is not in the hands of anyone.

God can raise a helper for you in the least expected places and you won't need the person who constantly yells at your face "you're nothing without me"

May you come in contact with people who will make life easier for you today.

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