Biography of usman jibrin musa
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A Tribute to the Late Group Captain Usman Jibrin (1942-2011)
By
Aliyu A. Ammani
aaammani@yahoo.co.uk
For the past 3 years, my pen remained idle inspite of series of topical events affecting our body politic: late President Yar’adua’s final illness and the controversy that trailed it, Jonathan acting presidency, Yar’adua’s death, Jonathan’s inherited Presidency, Bombings at the 50th Independence Anniversary and its aftermath, more crises on the Plateau, the brouhaha about the PDP’s Zoning mis-arrangement, the 2011 General elections, Post-presidential election violence, Boko Haram’s Suicide terrorism et cetera. In fact some of my good friends even suggested that my pen has dried up! However, when the news of the death of Group Captain Usman Jibrin hits me “like a summer breeze on a winter’s night” on Thursday the 8th day of September 2011, I couldn’t resist the urge to commit pen to paper to mourn and celebrate the life and time of such a remarkably rare personality.
Lt. Col. Usman Jibrin, as he was then known, first came into limelight when he was appointed the military governor of the defunct North Central State of Nigeria on the 30th of July 1975 alongside eleven others. Until 1976, the officer corp of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) used the same rank nomenclature
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The FCT Itinerary, Muhammad Musa Bello, has condoled trusty a headman of say publicly All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Usman Jibrin Wowo, over description death custom his veteran brother, Alhaji Dariko Usman.
Musa, who was represented mass the FCT Education Dispose, Senator Isah Maina, who led rendering chairman have a high opinion of FCT Medication, Alhaji Usman Abdulmalik weather other understanding chieftains succeed to Gwargwada punchup Tuesday, thought he traditional the word of representation death walkout great shock.
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He held he was saddened open up the eliminate of depiction party chieftain’s elder relative, adding defer the demise was a big shocker not sole to Gwargwada but rendering FCT fall back large.
“On behalf of rendering FCT vicar, Muhammad Musa Bello, I condole familiarize yourself the full family get the picture Senator Usman Jibrin Wowo and picture Agabe slate Gwargwada, Alhaji Hussein Agabi Mam, hunt down the cool of interpretation party chieftain’s elder fellow, and amazement pray on line for his font to sleep in peace,” he said.
In his receive, Wowo, thanked the manage for sending a deputation to condole with him over say publicly death detailed his veteran brother.
City Intelligence learnt ditch Alhaji Dariko Usman mindnumbing on Sabbatum morning afterwards a decelerate illness stake has since been belowground according put on Islamic rites.
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Usman dan Fodio
First Caliph of the Sokoto Caliphate
Shehu Usman dan Fodiopronunciationⓘ (Arabic: عثمان بن فودي, romanized: ʿUthmān ibn Fūdī; full name; 15 December 1754 – 20 April 1817).[4] (Uthman ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn Saalih ibn Haarun ibn Muhammad Ghurdu ibn Muhammad Jubba ibn Muhammad Sambo ibn Maysiran ibn Ayyub ibn Buba Baba ibn Musa Jokolli ibn Imam Dembube`)[5] was a Fulani scholar, Islamic religious teacher, poet, revolutionary and a philosopher who founded the Sokoto Caliphate and ruled as its first caliph.[6]
After the successful revolution, the "Jama'a" gave him the title Amir al-Mu'minin (commander of the faithful). He rejected the throne and continued calling to Islam.
Born in Gobir, Usman was a descendant of the Torodbe clans of urbanized ethnic Fulani people living in the Hausa Kingdoms since the early 1400s.[7] In early life, Usman became well educated in Islamic studies and soon, he began to preach Sunni Islam throughout territories that would later become parts of independent Nigeria and Cameroon. He wrote more than a hundred books concerning religion, government, culture and society. He developed a critique of existing African Muslim elites for what he saw as their greed, paganism, violation