FINALLY: ABACHA'S RECOVERED LOOTED MONEY WOULD BE SHARED AMONG NIGERIANS

$322m Abacha loot: Osinbajo reveals how
beneficiaries would be selected
Published on July 12, 2018


Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo has finally cleared the air on how the beneficiaries of the direct cash transfer from the $322m recovered Abacha loot would be paid.
The money is part of the loot stashed in Switzerland by the late former Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha The Vice President made the clarification on Wednesday at the launching of the Monitoring of Recovered Assets through Transparency and Accountability project.
The launching was part of the ‘Roundtable of the African Union Champion on Anti-Corruption’ to commemorate 1st African Day of Anti-Corruption.
The event was co-organised by the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, andthe African Union, with the theme, “Enhancing Domestic Resources for Sustainable Development Goals by Improved Asset Recovery and Asset Return.”
Osinbajo was represented at the event by Special Adviser to the President on Social Protection, Maryam Uwais.
He assured that the cash transfer programme would be monitored to ensure transparency of the process.
She said monitors would visit the individual households that have been identified through “deliberate targeting.”
The VP said, “By the end of this year, we should have a register of the entire country.
“This register is where all our beneficiaries will be mined from. There is a number for each of the beneficiaries, and we’ll have pictures captured.
“When we started, three banks offered to support us with the biometrics. By the time they started going to the locations they realised it was costly for them.
“So they backed out. Now, we’re working through agents to ensure we pay at the last mile, because if a person is on this register, and is actually deserving of this our N 5, 000, many of them cannot travel for long distances.
“Many of them need the money so we don’ t want them spending money going to look for their money. So we’re using the agents. We’re working to see that their biometrics are captured.
“It’ s more than just financial inclusion . It’ s also social inclusion. It’s important for planning that every state is aware of where these people are located.
“We’re also collating data on access roads to these communities, nearest primary schools, secondary schools, healthcare centres, connectivity issues.
“There is a huge conversation on how to ensure that we’re able to make payment by virtual wallet, because a lot of our women on pay days are visible when they go to collect their money and we need to protect them.

N-POWER GIVE BIRTH TO S-POWER....... What can we call this?

KATSINA 5,000 SUCCESSFUL S-POWER APPLICANTS GET APPOINTMENT LETTER NEXT WEEK

Katsina Media & Publicity
1st July 2018

The katsina State Governor Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari has disclosed that letters of appointment will be released on tuesday next week to 5,000 teachers under the newly introduced S-power programme in the state.

@Katgovmedia reports Masari was speaking during a rally organised by beneficiaries of social intervention programmes in support of Governor Aminu Masari. A programme organised under the office of special Adviser on Girl child Education and Development held at Muhammad Dikko stadium in Katsina.

Masari further explained that the S-power scheme was introduced to complement the N-power social intervention programme of the federal government to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths and strengthen the teachers capacity so as to Actualise the dream of an Educative state.

The Governor noted that the various intervention programmes had economic and social multiplier effects of improving the well-being of farmers, cooks, transporters and others in the chain of running the programme.

He therefore charged state governments to emulate the federal government in creating similar social intervention programmes in their respective States so as yo reduce restiveness and create employment, as the  programmes have positive multiplier effects.

our Correspondents recount that the Governor observed that the school feeding programme had increases the enrollment and retention rate of pupils in primary schools not only in Katsina state but throughout the federation.

The rally was concluded with distribution of 2,500 pots, 6,800 coolers and 350,000 plates to the beneficiaries of school feeding programme, Masari explained that the gesture was meant to enhance hygienic provision of the food to the pupils.

He appealed to parents/guardians to ensure that the plates of the pupils are kept clean to prevent the food from contermination.

The Governor announced plans by the present APC administration to introduced S-Power scheme in the health and other critical  sectors in the state.

Earlier, the focal person and special Adviser on Girl child education, Hajiya Binta Umar Abba gave a welcome Address were she expressed at the gathering that the rally was organized at the instance of the beneficiaries of the social intervention programmes in the state.

Katsina Media and Publicity reports that Binta explained that 3477 benefitted from the three components of N- power, conditional cash transfer and Girl Education project- GEP in the state.

She expressed the hope that the beneficiaries would reciprocate the gesture through massive votes to APC in the 2019 general elections.

Others who spoke during the rally were the Desk officer for understand social investment programme in Kaita, Alhaji Dalhatu Bara’u Batagarawa, Murja and Bilki Sa’idu Malumfashi, the two beneficiaries of school feeding programme as well as a beneficiary of N- power who showered encomium on both president Muhammad Buhari and Governor Masari for the social investment programmes in the state.

Recall that Katsina media and publicity had last month Announced the screening exercise. And subsequent Success of the 5000 Applicants.

Director General
Ibrahim M Abdullah

SALATUL FATIH.. (What do you know about the great Durood?)

Bismillahir-rahmanirrahim

From the letters of the Jurist Sīdī Muhammad Aknusūs, may Allah be pleased
with him
And know, O bother that no one approaches Allāh sincerely, with his inner being
except that Allāh approaches him apart from all of existence. So he will not fail
to obtain anything of the good of this world or the hereafter.
And I had been writing to you about what I think: that Ṣalāt al-Fātiḥī li mā
ughliq in this time is more endowed than all other remembrances and more
effective than all other secrets. And if only you were to remember it just as I
have informed you, as part of your litanies 2000 in the day and the night, in
addition to the (obligatory) litany. For that is the Greatest Treasure, and the
Philosopher's Stone.
So, put all of your effort into being consistent with it and be ever vigilant at its
blessed door, which is the door to the Presence of Allāh and His Messenger. For
you will verily attain by it jewels , charismatic talents, secrets, lights, and
gnosis, the worth of which cannot be measured. Whenever your concentration is
set upon it, you will realize this, whatever be the circumstance. This is
especially the case if you were to remember alongside it the Name that begins,
"Yā Ghiyāthī ʼinda kulli kurbatin....." 99 times per day, or after every obligatory
prayer- for the one who is able to. For anyone who sticks to that will discover
all of the Secrets with ease, without any trouble, any hardship, any difficulty or
condition.
And know that the People say that the Secrets have prescribed times and
assigned limits. And it is not possible to receive anything from it before its time,
nor after its time has expired.
I also had been informing you about Shaykh Abu Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ, that his
Shaykh Abu Madyan al-Ghawth had directed him to Shaykh Mawlānā ʼAbd al-
Qādir al-Jīlānī, may Allāh be pleased with them all.
Then, Abu Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ went to Baghdād. And Shaykh al-Jīlānī entered
him into seclusion for three consecutive forty day periods, that is to say one
hundred twenty days. But, there was no change in his spiritual state. So, he
returned him to his shaykh Abu Madyan. And he stayed with him for a long time
until the time came and he received his opening.
We only mention to him the traditions of the righteous to give lessons by their
remembrance, to convince living hearts, and to sow in them the longing for the
Bounty of Allāh.
Verily, this time in which we find ourselves does not support any great struggle
whatsoever. And it is not possible to travel to any far off summit. And every
door has been locked, as Shaykh Zarrūq and others have said. And there does
not remain open any of them except the door of blessing upon the Messenger of
Allāh, may Allāh bless him and grant him peace.
ﺍﻟﻠَّﻬُﻢَّ ﺻَﻞ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺳَﻴِّﺪِﻧَﺎ ﻣُﺤَﻤَّﺪٍ ۞ ﺍﻟﻔَﺎﺗِﺢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺃُﻏْﻠِﻖَ ۞ ﻭَﺍﻟﺨَﺎﺗِﻢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺳَﺒَﻖَ ۞ ﻧَﺎﺻِﺮِ ﺍﻟﺤَﻖِّ ﺑِﺎﻟﺤَﻖِّ
۞ ﻭَﺍﻟﻬَﺎﺩِﻱ ﺇِﻟَﻰ ﺻِﺮَﺍﻃِﻚَ ﺍﻟﻤُﺴْﺘَﻘِﻴﻢِ ۞ ﻭَﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺁﻟِﻪِ ﺣَﻖَّ ﻗَﺪْﺭِﻩِ ﻭَﻣِﻘْﺪَﺍﺭِﻩِ ﺍﻟﻌَﻈِﻴﻢِ ۩


The Importance of Salatul Fatih
Sidi Ahmad Tijani said:
If I should express what Allah is to me and my companions
reward
with the  salat al Fatihi,
then the great god-connoisseurs (akabir al arifin) would  kill me with united
forces . "
(From the Epistles of Sidi Muhammad ibn Ahmed Akansus)
"The great reward that Allah has reserved for those who recite the Salat al
Fatihi is not to be mentioned, and it will only be visible in the Hereafter."
Sidi al Haj Ali Harazem comments:
"The reason is that this prayer itself
the Holy Essence of Allah  (Kalam Dhat al Muqaddasa)
and thus no result of human activity. "
And of the benefits of reciting this prayer is that it is the one who speaks it
before the hellfire  (fidya mina an nar) ...
... and to those who recite it, Allah will forgive all his sins,
even if he was 100,000 years old.
(Kunnash of Sidi al Haj Ali Harazem)
ﺍﻟﻠَّﻬُﻢَّ ﺻَﻞ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺳَﻴِّﺪِﻧَﺎ ﻣُﺤَﻤَّﺪٍ ۞ ﺍﻟﻔَﺎﺗِﺢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺃُﻏْﻠِﻖَ ۞ ﻭَﺍﻟﺨَﺎﺗِﻢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺳَﺒَﻖَ ۞ ﻧَﺎﺻِﺮِ ﺍﻟﺤَﻖِّ ﺑِﺎﻟﺤَﻖِّ
۞ ﻭَﺍﻟﻬَﺎﺩِﻱ ﺇِﻟَﻰ ﺻِﺮَﺍﻃِﻚَ ﺍﻟﻤُﺴْﺘَﻘِﻴﻢِ ۞ ﻭَﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺁﻟِﻪِ ﺣَﻖَّ ﻗَﺪْﺭِﻩِ ﻭَﻣِﻘْﺪَﺍﺭِﻩِ ﺍﻟﻌَﻈِﻴﻢِ ۩

Give people Salatul Fatih-Shaikh Salah el
Din Tijani
Give People Salatul-Fatih.
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The word "Tījānī" is used to call anyone who joins the Tījānī Path (al-Tarīqah
al-Tījāniyyah), adhering to its known conditions and who is consistently
performing its obligatory litanies ('awrād).
It is also used to call anyone who received one of the 'azhkār of the Tarīqah
through a sound licence (`izhn) and an explicit chain of transmission (sanad).
Sidi Ahmad al-Tījānī, radya Allahu `anhu, said, "Near the end of time, teach
people Salatul-Fatih [1] so that they die in a state of 'Imān".
This is a general licence for all Tījānīs - near the end of time – to teach
Salatul-Fatih to everyone [2].
……………..
The Path started with its conditions and its requisites.
It will open up – near the end of time – to include everyone who received
Salatul-Fatih [3].
And all praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
- Ṣalāḥ El-Dīn al- Tījānī al-Hassanī,
Giza, Egypt. July 29th, 2017.
Notes:
[1]- Even without initiating them in the Path.
[2]- Through dictation or talqīn.
[3]- From any Tījānī.
_______________________________
ﺍﻟﻠَّﻬُﻢَّ ﺻَﻞ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺳَﻴِّﺪِﻧَﺎ ﻣُﺤَﻤَّﺪٍ ۩۞۩ ﺍﻟﻔَﺎﺗِﺢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺃُﻏْﻠِﻖَ ۩۞۩ ﻭَﺍﻟﺨَﺎﺗِﻢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺳَﺒَﻖَ ۞ ﻧَﺎﺻِﺮِ ﺍﻟﺤَﻖِّ
ﺑِﺎﻟﺤَﻖِّ ۩۞۩ ﻭَﺍﻟﻬَﺎﺩِﻱ ﺇِﻟَﻰ ﺻِﺮَﺍﻃِﻚَ ﺍﻟﻤُﺴْﺘَﻘِﻴﻢِ ۩۞۩ ﻭَﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺁﻟِﻪِ ﺣَﻖَّ ﻗَﺪْﺭِﻩِ ﻭَﻣِﻘْﺪَﺍﺭِﻩِ ﺍﻟﻌَﻈِﻴﻢِ
۩۞۩

Salatul Fatih-Shaikh Hisham Kabbani
Today I spoke a little bit about Salaat al-Faatih:
Salaat al-Faatih, Salutation of the Victor
ﺍﻟﻠَّﻬُﻢَّ ﺻَﻞِّ ﻋَﻠﻰ ﺳَﻴِّﺪِﻧَﺎ ﻣُﺤَﻤَّﺪٍ ﺍﻟﻔﺎﺗِﺢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺃُﻏْﻠِﻖَ ﻭ ﺍﻟﺨﺎﺗِﻢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺳَﺒَﻖَ ﻧَﺎﺻِﺮِ ﺍﻟﺤَﻖِّ ﺑَﺎﻟﺤَﻖَّ ﻭ ﺍﻟﻬَﺎﺩِﻱ
ﺇﻟﻰ . ﺻِﺮَﺍﻃِﻚَ ﺍﻟﻤُﺴْﺘَﻘِﻴﻢِ ﻭ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺁﻟِﻪِ ﺣَﻖَّ ﻗَﺪْﺭِﻩِ ﻭ ﻣِﻘْﺪَﺍﺭِﻩِ ﺍﻟﻌَﻈِﻴﻢ
Allahumma salli `alaa Sayyidinaa Muhammadini 'l-faatihi limaa ughliq, wa 'l-
khaatimi limaa sabaq, naasiri 'l-haqqi bi 'l-haqq, wa 'l-haadi ilaa siraatika 'l-
mustaqeem, wa `alaa aalihi haqqa qadrihi wa miqdaarihi 'l-`azheem .
O Allah! Bless our Master Muhammad (s), who opened what was closed and
who is the Seal of what went before, he who makes the Truth victorious by the
Truth, the guide to Your Straight Path, and bless his Household as is due his
immense position and grandeur.
This salawaat has a specific power and when you recite it as part of the awraad
they immediately throw you in the Ocean of Mercy which relates to Prophet (s).
That is why it is a cure for every disease. Allahumma salli `alaa Sayyidinaa
Muhammadini 'l-faatihi limaa ughliq, Prophet (s) is "the Opener of What is
Closed," whatever is closed. There are 70,000 veils between us and Prophet (s)
and Salawaat al-Faatih will lift these veils one by one!
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
ﺍﻟﻠَّﻬُﻢَّ ﺻَﻞ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺳَﻴِّﺪِﻧَﺎ ﻣُﺤَﻤَّﺪٍ ۩۞۩ ﺍﻟﻔَﺎﺗِﺢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺃُﻏْﻠِﻖَ ۩۞۩ ﻭَﺍﻟﺨَﺎﺗِﻢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺳَﺒَﻖَ ۞ ﻧَﺎﺻِﺮِ ﺍﻟﺤَﻖِّ
ﺑِﺎﻟﺤَﻖِّ ۩۞۩ ﻭَﺍﻟﻬَﺎﺩِﻱ ﺇِﻟَﻰ ﺻِﺮَﺍﻃِﻚَ ﺍﻟﻤُﺴْﺘَﻘِﻴﻢِ ۩۞۩ ﻭَﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺁﻟِﻪِ ﺣَﻖَّ ﻗَﺪْﺭِﻩِ ﻭَﻣِﻘْﺪَﺍﺭِﻩِ ﺍﻟﻌَﻈِﻴﻢِ
۩۞۩

600000 Birds From Each Recitation of
salatul Fatih
Sayyidina Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I asked
the Master of Existence (salla Allahu alaihi wa aalihi wa sallam) if this hadith
was authentic. He replied that it was authentic ... I then asked him if one bird is
created for Salat al-Fatihi with that description? He replied that 600,000 birds
with that description are created for each recitation of Salat al-Fatihi"
The Prophet (salla Allahu alaihi wa aalihi wa sallam) said, "No servant prays
upon me except that the prayer exits from his mouth with such speed, staying
neither in the seas nor on lands, east or west except passing by them all and
saying 'I am the Salawat of Fulan bin Fulan, pray then upon Muhammad the
Chosen, the Best of Creations (salla Allahu alaihi wa aalihi wa sallam) ;
nothing remains therein except that they too pray upon him and Allah shall
create from that Solawat a bird which as 70,000 wings and in each wings there
are 70,000 feathers and in each feather there are 70,000 faces and in each
face there are 70,000 mouths and in each mouth there are 70,000 tongues and
each tongue praises Allāh in 70,000 languages and Allāh shall write from him
[the reciter] the reward of them all.
[from: Jawahir al-Ma'ani]
ﺍﻟﻠَّﻬُﻢَّ ﺻَﻞ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺳَﻴِّﺪِﻧَﺎ ﻣُﺤَﻤَّﺪٍ ۞ ﺍﻟﻔَﺎﺗِﺢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺃُﻏْﻠِﻖَ ۞ ﻭَﺍﻟﺨَﺎﺗِﻢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺳَﺒَﻖَ ۞ ﻧَﺎﺻِﺮِ ﺍﻟﺤَﻖِّ ﺑِﺎﻟﺤَﻖِّ
۞ ﻭَﺍﻟﻬَﺎﺩِﻱ ﺇِﻟَﻰ ﺻِﺮَﺍﻃِﻚَ ﺍﻟﻤُﺴْﺘَﻘِﻴﻢِ ۞ ﻭَﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺁﻟِﻪِ ﺣَﻖَّ ﻗَﺪْﺭِﻩِ ﻭَﻣِﻘْﺪَﺍﺭِﻩِ ﺍﻟﻌَﻈِﻴﻢِ
ﺍﻟﻠَّﻬُﻢَّ ﺻَﻞ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺳَﻴِّﺪِﻧَﺎ ﻣُﺤَﻤَّﺪٍ ۞ ﺍﻟﻔَﺎﺗِﺢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺃُﻏْﻠِﻖَ ۞ ﻭَﺍﻟﺨَﺎﺗِﻢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺳَﺒَﻖَ ۞ ﻧَﺎﺻِﺮِ ﺍﻟﺤَﻖِّ ﺑِﺎﻟﺤَﻖِّ
۞ ﻭَﺍﻟﻬَﺎﺩِﻱ ﺇِﻟَﻰ ﺻِﺮَﺍﻃِﻚَ ﺍﻟﻤُﺴْﺘَﻘِﻴﻢِ ۞ ﻭَﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺁﻟِﻪِ ﺣَﻖَّ ﻗَﺪْﺭِﻩِ ﻭَﻣِﻘْﺪَﺍﺭِﻩِ ﺍﻟﻌَﻈِﻴﻢِ

Tijaniyya and Salatul Fatih
Question:
Assalam u alayekum !
There is some info given on http://www.dar-sirr.com/Tijanism/Salat-al-
Fatih.html regarding salaat al faatih. Can you please confirm this info? i.e is it
really so great in its fazaail that it is even greater than dalail ul kherat in
blessings?
shukran ya syyedi.
Answer:
`Alaykum as-Salam,
The wording of Salat al-Fatih is for the most part that of a report from our
liegelord `Ali ibn Abi Talib (Allah ennoble his face) as his own saying narrated by
Sa`id b. Mansur in his Sunan, Ibn Faris in his monograph on Salat on the
Prophet (upon him blessings and peace), al-Tabari, al-Tabarani, al-Ajurri in al-
Shari`a, and others as stated by al-Haythami in Majma` al-Zawa'id (10:254),
Ibn Hajar in Fath al-Bari (11:163), Ibn Kathir in his Tafsir under verse 33:56. It
is often cited in the books of difficult Arabic words such as al-Zamakhshari's al-
Fa'iq, Ibn Qutayba's Gharib al-Hadith and others. This is the wording:
ﺳﻼَﻣَﺔ ﺍﻟﻜِﻨْﺪﻱ ﻗﺎﻝ : ﻛﺎﻥ ﻋﻠﻲ ﻳُﻌَﻠِّﻤﻨﺎ ﺍﻟﺼﻼﺓ ﻋﻠﻰ ﺍﻟﻨَّﺒِﻰَّ ﺻَﻠَّﻰ ﺍﻟﻠّﻪ ﻋَﻠَﻴْﻪِ ﻭﺳﻠَّﻢ : ﺍﻟﻠَّﻬِﻢ ﺩﺍﺣِﻲَ
ﺍﻟﻤَﺪْﺣُﻮﺍﺕ ﻭﺑﺎﺭﻯﺀ ﺍﻟﻤَﺴْﻤﻮﻛﺎﺕ ﻭﺟﺒّﺎﺭ ﺍﻟﻘُﻠﻮﺏ ﻋﻠﻰ ﻓِﻄَﺮﺍﺗﻬﺎ ﺷَﻘِﻴّﻬﺎ ﻭﺳَﻌﻴﺪﻫﺎ ﺍﺟْﻌَﻞ ﺷَﺮﺍﺋﻒ
ﺻﻠﻮﺍﺗﻚ ﻭﻧَﻮﺍﻣَﻲ ﺑﺮﻛﺎﺗﻚ ﻭﺭﺃْﻓﺔ ﺗﺤﻨُّﻨﻚَ " ﻋﻠﻰ " ﻣﺤﻤّﺪ
ﻋﺒْﺪﻙ ﻭﺭﺳُﻮﻟﻚ ﺍﻟﻔﺎﺗﺢ ﻟِﻤﺎ ﺃُﻏْﻠِﻖ ﻭﺍﻟﺨﺎِﺗﻢ ﻟﻤﺎ ﺳُﺒِﻖ ﻭﺍﻟﻤُﻌْﻠِﻦ ﺍﻟﺤﻖَّ ﺑﺎﻟﺤﻖَ ﻭﺍﻟﺪﺍﻣﻎ ﺟَﻴْﺸَﺎﺕ
ﺍﻷﺑﺎﻃﻴﻞ ﻛﻤﺎ
ﺣُﻤِّﻞ ﻓﺎﺿْﻄَﻠﻊ ﺑﺄﻣﺮﻙ ﻟﻄﺎﻋﺘﻚ ﻣُﺴﺘْﻮﻓِﺰﺍً ﻓﻲ ﻣَﺮْﺿﺎﺗﻚ ﺑﻐﻴﺮ ﻧَﻜَﻞ ﻓﻲ ﻗَﺪَﻡ ﻭﻻ ﻭَﻫْﻲٍ ﻓﻲ ﻋَﺰْﻡ
ﻭﺍﻋﻴﺎً ﻟﻮﺣْﻴﻚ
ﺣﺎﻓﻈﺎً ﻟﻌْﻬﺪﻙ ﻣﺎﺿﻴﺎً ﻋﻠﻰ ﻧﻔﺎﺫ ﺃﻣﺮﻙ ﺣﺘﻰ ﺃﻭﺭﻯ ﻗَﺒَﺴﺎً ﻟﻘﺎﺑﺲ ﻭﺃﻧﺎﺭ ﻋﻠﻤﺎً ﻟﺤﺎﺑﺲ ﺁﻻﺀ ﺍﻟﻠّﻪ ﺗَﺼِﻞ
ﺑﺎﻫﻠﻪ ﺃﺳﺒﺎﺑﻪ ﺑﻪ
ﻫُﺪِﻳَﺖ ﺍﻟﻘﻠﻮﺏ ﺑﻌﺪ ﺧَﻮْﺿﺎﺕ ﺍﻟﻔِﺘَﻦ ﻭﺍﻻِﺛْﻢ ﻣُﻮﺿﺤﺎﺕ ﺍﻷﻋﻼﻡ ﻭﻧﺎﺋﺮﺍﺕ ﺍﻷﺣﻜﺎﻡ ﻭﻣﻨُﻴﺮﺍﺕ
ﺍﻻﺳﻼﻡ ﻓﻬﻮ ﺃﻣﻴﻨُﻚ
ﺍﻟﻤﺄﻣﻮﻥ ﻭﺧﺎﺯِﻥ ﻋﻠْﻤﻚ ﺍﻟﻤﺨﺰﻭﻥ ﻭﺷﻬﻴﺪُﻙ ﻳﻮﻡ ﺍﻟﺪﻳﻦ ﻭﺑﻌﻴﺜُﻚ ﻧِﻌْﻤَﺔ ﻭﺭﺳﻮﻟﻚ ﺑﺎﻟﺤﻖ ﺭﺣﻤﺔ ﺍﻟﻞّ
ﻫﻢ ﺍﻓْﺴﺢ ﻟﻪ ﻣُﻔْﺘَﺴَﺤﺎً ﻓﻲ
ﻋَﺪْﻟﻚ ﺃَﻭْﻋَﺪْﻧِﻚ ﻭﺃَﺟْﺰﻩ ﻣُﻀَﺎﻋﻔﺎﺕ ﺍﻟﺨﻴﺮ ﻣﻦ ﻓَﻀْﻠﻚ ﻟﻪ ﻣُﻬَﻨَّﺂﺕ ﻏﻴﺮَ ﻣُﻜﺪَّﺭﺍﺕ ﻣﻦ ﻓَﻮْﺯ ﺛﻮﺍﺑﻚ
ﺍﻟﻤَﺤْﻠﻮﻝ
ﻭﺟﺰْﻝ ﻋﻄﺎﺋﻚ ﺍﻟﻤَﻌْﻠﻮﻝ ﺍﻟﻠَّﻬﻢ ﺃﻋْﻞِ ﻋﻠﻰ ﺑﻨﺎﺀ ﺍﻟﺒﺎﺑﻴﻦ ﺑﻨﺎﺀﻩ ﻭﺃَﻛْﺮِﻡ ﻣَﺜْﻮﺍﻩ ﻟﺪﻳﻚ ﻭﻧُﺰُﻟَﻪ ﻭﺃﺗْﻤِﻢ ﻟﻪ
ﻧُﻮﺭﻩ
ﻭﺃَﺟْﺰِﻩ ﻣﻦ ﺍﺑْﺘﻌﺎﺛِﻚ ﻟﻪ ﻣﻘﺒﻮﻝَ ﺍﻟﺸﻬﺎﺩﺓ ﻣﺮﺿﻲَّ ﺍﻟﻤَﻘﺎﻟﺔ ﺫﺍ ﻣﻨْﻄِﻖ ﻋَﺪْﻝ ﻭﺧُﻄَّﺔ ﻓَﺼْﻞ ﻭﺣَﺠَّﺔ
ﺑﺮﻫﺎﻥ ﻋﻈﻴﻢ
Courtesy: Eshaykh.com
ﺍﻟﻠَّﻬُﻢَّ ﺻَﻞ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺳَﻴِّﺪِﻧَﺎ ﻣُﺤَﻤَّﺪٍ ۞ ﺍﻟﻔَﺎﺗِﺢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺃُﻏْﻠِﻖَ ۞ ﻭَﺍﻟﺨَﺎﺗِﻢِ ﻟِﻤَﺎ ﺳَﺒَﻖَ ۞ ﻧَﺎﺻِﺮِ ﺍﻟﺤَﻖِّ ﺑِﺎﻟﺤَﻖِّ
۞ ﻭَﺍﻟﻬَﺎﺩِﻱ ﺇِﻟَﻰ ﺻِﺮَﺍﻃِﻚَ ﺍﻟﻤُﺴْﺘَﻘِﻴﻢِ ۞ ﻭَﻋَﻠَﻰ ﺁﻟِﻪِ ﺣَﻖَّ ﻗَﺪْﺭِﻩِ ﻭَﻣِﻘْﺪَﺍﺭِﻩِ ﺍﻟﻌَﻈِﻴﻢِ ۩


Sharh of Salatul Fatih By Shaikh Qandusi
R.A
"The statement in Salat al-Fatih from the Great Axial Master and renowned
Prophetic Heir, my master Ahmad al-Tijani (Allah be pleased with him and be
pleased with us on his behalf), 'the Opener of what was sealed' means: the
Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) is the opener of the cosmic
forms, for they were 'sealed' behind the veil of hiddenness (butun) and in the
form of non-existence; their locks were opened through the existence of the
Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) and came from the form of non-
existence into the form of existence, from its veiledness in the realm of
hiddenness into themselves within the realm of manifestation through him. For
were it not for the Prophet, Allah would not have created existents or taken
them from non-existence to existence. This is one of the meanings of the
phrase. Another meaning is that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him
peace) opened the locks to the doors of divine mercy, and because of him those
doors were opened for creation. Had Allah Most Exalted not created our master
Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace), not a single existent would
have received divine mercy. Allah's mercy to creation is therefore by means of
His Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace)…"
—Shaykh Muhammad al-Qandusi (al-Talwin wa al-Tam

BUHARI & NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (2018 BUDGET WAR)

Buhari:
How National Assembly mutilated budget
President Muhammadu Buhari told a shocked nation today how the National Assembly mutilated and rewrote the budget proposals for 2018 as presented by the Executive last November.
In a brazen usurpation of executive powers, the National Assembly slashed 347 billion Naira in the allocations to 4,700 projects submitted to it for consideration and introduced 6,403 projects of its own amounting to 578 billion Naira, President Buhari said.
He spoke at the signing of the budget in Abuja, seven months after it was presented to the National Assembly.
President Buhari said the various projects for which the National Assembly denied funds are critical and may be difficult, if not impossible, to implement with the reduced allocation.
Among them are the Mambilla Power Plant, Second Niger Bridge/ancillary roads, the East-West Road, Bonny-Bodo Road, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and Itakpe-Ajaokuta Rail Project. President Buhari said the National Assembly slashed funding to them by an aggregate of 11.5 billion Naira.
” Similarly, provisions for some ongoing critical infrastructure projects in the FCT, Abuja especially major arterial roads and the mass transit rail project, were cut by a total of 7.5 billion Naira.
“The provision for Rehabilitation and Additional Security Measures for the United Nations Building by the FCT, Abuja was cut by 3.9 billion Naira from 4 billion Naira to 100 million Naira. He said the cutting will make it impossible for the Federal Government of Nigeria to fulfil its commitment to the
United Nations on this project.
Also affected are the provisions for various Strategic Interventions in the health sector such as the upgrade of some tertiary health institutions, transport and storage of vaccines through the cold chain supply system, provision of anti-retroviral drugs for persons on treatment, establishment of chemotherapy centres and procurement of dialysis consumables were cut by an aggregate amount of
7.45 billion Naira.
Another is the planned  security infrastructure for the 104 Unity Schools across the country. The National Assembly cut the budget by 3 billion Naira at a time when securing our students against acts of terrorism ought to be a major concern of government.
The National Assembly reduced the provision for the Federal Government’s National Housing Programme by 8.7 billion Naira. It also slashed the funding for Pension Redemption Fund and Public Service Wage Adjustment by N5billion, at a time  when government is working with Labour to address compensation-related issues.
Also cut by N14.5billion were the provision for Export Expansion Grant (EEG) and Special Economic Zones/Industrial Parks, which are key industrialisation initiatives of this Administration.
The National Assembly reduced the funding for the completion of the Terminal Building at Enugu Airport from 2 billion Naira to 500 million Naira, an action the President noted, would further delay the completion of this critical project.
Slashed also was the take-off grant for the Maritime University in Delta State, a key strategic initiative of the Federal Government. It was cut from 5 billion Naira to 3.4 billion Naira.
The president noted that Some of the new projects inserted by the National Assembly have not been properly conceptualised, designed and costed and will therefore be difficult to execute”.
” About seventy (70) new road projects have been inserted into the budget of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing. In doing so, the National Assembly applied some of the additional funds expected from the upward review of the oil price benchmark to the Ministry’s vote. Regrettably, however, in order to make provision for some of the new roads, the amounts allocated to some strategic
major roads have been cut by the National Assembly.
“Furthermore, many of these new projects introduced by the National Assembly have been added to the budgets of most MDAs with no consideration for institutional capacity to execute them or the incremental recurrent expenditure that may be required.
” As it is, some of these projects relate to matters that are the responsibility of the States and Local Governments, and for which the Federal Government should therefore not be unduly burdened.
“Another area of concern is the increase by the National Assembly of the provisions for Statutory Transfers by an aggregate of 73.96 billion Naira. Most of these increases are for recurrent expenditure at a time we are trying to keep down the cost of governance.
“An example of this increase is the budget of the National Assembly itself which has increased by 14.5 billion Naira, from 125 billion Naira to 139.5 billion Naira without any discussion with the Executive”.

NDA RECRUITMENT... BE WARNED!

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Nigerian Defence Academy speaks on recruitment

Published on June 21, 2018
By Wale Odunsi
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) has warned members of the public to be wary of misleading vacancy announcements claiming it was recruiting.
In a statement on Thursday by Major Musa Yahaya, the NDA appealed to Nigerians not to fall victims to fraudsters.
He said: “The attention of the Nigerian Defence Academy has been drawn to the activities of some scammers and admission racketeers on Face book and other social media sites impersonating the Commandant Nigerian Defence Academy and thereby defrauding potential cadets and their parents of their hard earned money.
“The fake Facebook accounts and social media sites / syndicate calls for people who are interested in admission into 70 Regular Course and 77 RRI to call a certain phone number or pay money into some account numbers.
“We wish to state unequivocally that such Face book posts and social media sites are all the handiwork of fraudsters and DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE NIGERIAN DEFENCE ACADEMY. It is the concorted work of fraudters and we therefore warn all law abiding Nigerians not to have any dealings with this syndicate as doing so will be at their own peril.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Major General Adeniyi Oyebade is a seasoned senior officer of the Nigerian Armed Forces who has had a long, meritorious and illustrious service to the Armed Forces of Nigeria.
“Entry into the Nigerian Defence Academy is only possible through a transparent and rigorous process which starts from acquiring the NDA forms online, writing JAMB, writing NDA admission examination, from which successful candidates will be invited to a 2 week intensive physical, mental and intellectual interview process which is structured to ensure an unbiased and level ground for all candidates.
“Only those who emerge successful from this process will be invited for training at the Academy.
Information on the NDA can also be checked on www.nda.edu.ng
“Again, we call on all law abiding Nigerians to resist the temptations of having any dealings with these fraudsters and authors of these fake Facebook accounts and social media sites or any socialmedia accounts or person/ persons that offer easy admission into the Nigerian Defence Academy.
Doing so will be at your own peril and loss.”

Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority Recruitment 2018

RECRUITMENT! RECRUITMENT!!

Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCCA) 2018 Recruitment Is
Ongoing
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has announced that it has begun its
recruitment for 2018.
Technical Career
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) invites applications for Technical
Career Opportunities in the Aviation Industry in Nigeria in the following Areas of
operations:
1. Flight Operations
2. Licencing
3. Aerodromes
4. Cabin Safety
5. Airworthiness
General Requirements
1. Applicants must possess a BSC/HND degree.
2. Applicants with WASC/SSSC can apply
3. Must have at least 5 credit passes in your WAEC/NECO/NABTEB or its equivalent
4. Interested applicants below 18 years should not apply
5. Applicants must have good communication skills
6. Applicants must be not more than 30 or more years
Method of Application
For more information, visit: www.ncaa.gov.ng and click Careers at the menu link –
you see a page that looks like what I published below.
Note: Application is free. No fee is required for the test or interview.
Deadline Date:
It is believed that the recruitment will come to an end on the 15th of July, 2018.

ARGENTINA AND BLACK PEOPLE HISTORY...

......... T truth must be told.......

"As I watched the Argentina and Iceland match today and wondered why there were no black players in the Argentinean team when other South American teams had black or biracial players, I remembered a conversation I had last year.

It was while I was on a cruise from Florida to the Grand Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.

Between an Argentinean doctor and myself, who had walked up to me during lunch one day and struck up a conversation with me.

There was no hiding the attraction.

We had bonded much to the chagrin of her three Argentinean friends.

On the deck of the ship that day, she kept going on about how she loves black men and looks forward to traveling so she can meet them.

I asked her.

"Don't you have black people in Argentina?"

She said with a matter of fact candour.

"No. Long time ago, after slavery, we killed them all."

I was taken aback.

She smiled.

And continued.

"Very bad. I am ashamed of my people. It was very systematic though.  Very well thought out. First they forced most of the men to fight for Argentina against Paraguay. They knowingly sent them into battles that were poorly planned so that the Paraguay army will do for them what they couldn't themselves do. Kill the blacks. Most of them died there. The remaining of them they forced to live in this province were there was a plague. A disease that the government refused to curb so that it can also do for them what they couldn't do. Kill the blacks. The refused to set up hospitals, clinics, adequate shelter, food outlets, nothing. They created the best environment for the disease to thrive. It killed the rest of the men that had survived the war. The darker you are, the higher the chance they will send you to that place to live or to the war to die. The lighter skinned women they forced them to sleep with the white men, so that their children are biracial, then they forced the children when they grew older to sleep with white men, so that the blackness of the skin of the children became whiter and whiter until there was no longer any visibly black people seen. It was so bad that blacks fled to Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and even Paraquay where they were better treated even though not as well as they should be treated as human beings deserving full equality. Atleast those ones did not want to kill them and accepted to give them protection and a means of livelihood. As a matter of fact in Chile, there was  a city called Arica where Black people were so accepted and respected that in the 1700s two black free man, one called Anzuréz were elected mayors. But the white colonial masters from Spain came six months later and nullified the elections, they were afraid of other cities giving black people too many rights. But the blacks who had found succour did not complain, they sent word for others to flee Argentina and come join them. Afterall what was cancelled elections compared to certain death?"

Then she went silent as though trying to replay the magnitude of the crime in her mind again. Then she said it in a sombre tone in order to drive it home to me.

"The ones the Argentineans did not kill through war or disease, and rape and impregnate, fled the country and ultimately we got rid of the blacks."

I listened in rising sorrow.

She continued academically.

"So although they abolished slavery in 1815 in Argentina, it continued until 1853, after that the main preoccupation of the leaders was how to get rid of the black slaves and their descendants. Our president who ruled us from 1868 to 1874, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, wrote in his diary in 1848, this was long before he became president and slavery ended that - 'In the United States… 4 million are black, and within 20 years will be 8 million…. What is to be done with such blacks, hated by the white race?' - It shows that he was already thinking of how to eliminate black people before he became President and when he became President, he succeeded."

"Didn't the world say anything?"

"No. They ignored it. I am sure most of them wanted to do the same thing but failed. At that time, they admired them. I remember when I will go to Brazil as a child, my father's friend will say in disgust as he looked at the black Brazilians - we should have had your guts and finished them off. All of them. Make Brazil white just like Argentina."

"And the Europeans?"

She laughed.

"It is an open secret, just like King Leopold and his genocide in Congo. No one talks about it, but they know about it. Atleast the older ones do. The younger ones not so much. Why do you think all the Nazis ran to Argentina after World War 2?"

I was silent.

She continued.

"Because it was the perfect place for the most evil racists in history to live."

Then she looked out to the infinitely blue sea around the ship and sighed audibly before she continued.

" Sadly, to some extent, it still is welcoming and accomodating of racial hatred. We took the Tango from the African slaves and made it our own. In Argentina, not one person will tell you the true history of that dance. They don't want to associate it with Africa. In fact if you ask them about black people in Argentina they will tell you that there has never been black people in Argentina. They teach them in schools. They rewrite the history. They make it all white. And as I said it is all underneath the surface. They never come out and say we hate black people. Argentina is only for whites or anything like that. They have just fixed the country to only be for white people."

I looked at her friends, Argentineans like her, who were lounging on the chairs on the deck, clad in their tiny bikinis, drinking pina coladas and smiling.

She followed my gaze and then turned to me.

"Don't be fooled by all those smiles, scratch the surface and you will see that all they want is for you to disappear."

Jude Idada
Toronto.
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OFFICIAL VERSION

Decline of the Afro-Argentine population

The bloody Paraguayan War(1865–70) and the Yellow Fever epidemic have been considered causes of the drastic diminution of the Afro-Argentine population.

Causes of reduction

Heavy casualties caused by constant civil wars and foreign wars: Blacks formed a disproportionate part of the Argentine army in the long and bloody War of Paraguay (1865–1870), in which the loss of lives on both sides were high. Heavy casualties among blacks led to a large gender gap among the black population which led to black women increasingly forming relationships with white people.

It has been alleged that Argentine President Domingo Sarmiento sought to eliminate blacks from the country in a policy of covert genocide through oppressive policies. These possibly included the forced employment of Black people into the armed forces and by forcing them to stay in neighbourhoods, where in the absence of decent health care, they would be devastated by disease, and possibly mass executions may have also contributed to the rapid population disappearance in the last two decades of the 19th century. Such mass killings may have gone generally unreported, as similar to the ethnic cleansing of native populations in Patagonia sanctioned by the Argentine government.

Epidemics, especially of yellow fever in 1871: the traditional history holds that the epidemics had greater impact in areas where the poorest people lived.

Emigration. Large numbers of Afro-Argentines emigrated particularly to Uruguay and Brazil, where black populations had historically been larger and had a more favorable political climate;

Massive immigration from Europe between 1880 and 1950, boosted by the Constitution of 1853, that quickly multiplied the country's population. Like White Australia policy in the 1900s to 1970s, European immigrants were encouraged while non-Europeans were virtually excluded.

All children born after 1813 were automatically free, but Afro-Argentines who were already slaves were not freed, and were only granted their freedom as a condition of fighting in Argentina's wars. For this reason, African males had disproportionate numbers in the Argentine war of independence from Spain. A much larger proportion of men of African descent were killed in the war than men of Spanish descent.

An Afro-Argentine had less chance of survival if free than if enslaved: slaves were seen as investments and taken good care of, while free Afro-Argentines were left with menial jobs for low pay, or forced to become beggars. This caused much poverty in the Afro-Argentine community; many succumbed to disease because they could not afford proper medical care, in many cases during frequent plagues of diseases such as yellow fever.

Present

Today in Argentina, the Afro-Argentine community is beginning to emerge from the shadows. There have been black organizations such as "Grupo Cultural Afro," "SOS Racismo," and perhaps the most important group "Africa Vive" that help to rekindle interest into the African heritage of Argentina. There are also Afro-Uruguayan and Afro-Brazilian migrants who have helped to expand the African culture. Afro-Uruguayan migrants have brought candomble to Argentina, while Afro-Brazilians teach capoeira, orisha, and other African derived secula. It has been well over a century since Argentina has reflected the African racial ancestry in its census count. Therefore, calculating the exact number of Afro-descendants is very difficult; however, Africa Vive calculates that there are about 1,000,000 Afro-descendents in Argentina. The last census, carried on 27 October 2010, introduced the African ancestry survey.

See More: Afro-Argentines - Wikipedia