SANHDEF (Sanitas Health and Development Foundation) is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Administrative Officer

Location: Kano
Type: Full-time
Reports to: State Team Lead
Division/Department: Shared Services

Apply at recruitment@sanhdef.org Job Summary

The position holder will be responsible for overseeing the effective and efficient management of the Kano office administrative functions.
This includes facilities management, inventory control, logistics, travel arrangements, and administrative support.

The history of the dethronement/disposition of Sarkis (Emirs) in Kano.

Adapted from a write-up by Adnan Bawa Bello.

1. The 1st ever Sarki recorded to have been deposed/dethroned in Kano was Guguwa Dan Gijimasu (1247-1290). 2. The 2nd Sarki reported to have been deposed/dethroned was Dakauta Dan Abdullahi Baja in 1452. He was said to have ruled in Kano for just 1 day.

Your guess is right, Kano came up the most.

“ ON KANO

How many of those whose knowledge of geography is by no means below the average would nevertheless find a difficulty in giving an immediate answer if asked to say in which of the five continents the city of Kano was situated! And yet London is probably not more generally known throughout the continent of Europe than is Kano throughout an equal area in the Central Soudan.

It would be difficult to find an inhabitant
of even an obscure village, within several hundred miles of Kano, who could not tell you something of this great commercial capital of Hausaland, and who, if he had not been there himself, had not at least conversed with traders who had come from it… … The market of Kano is the most important in the whole of tropical Africa, and its manufactures are to be met with from the Gulf of Guines on the south to the Mediterranean on the north, and from the Atlantic on the west to the Nile, or even the Red Sea, on the east.
The stranger, who in conversation with a native expresses an interest in any town or place at which he may be staying in the Central Soudan, is constantly liable to be interrupted by the remark, "You have not yet seen Kano." Just as in London we might hope to come across any English friend whom we had for years lost sight of and whose whereabouts were unknown, so to Kano one would naturally go in order to find any native of the Central Soudan of whose movements all definite trace had been lost….

Kano itself was later named after the great ancestor of the Abagayawa (a smither), Dala (named after the great hunter and the grandfather of Barbushe). Wards or settlements established during the period of Maguzawa were merely restricted to the Dala area and its vicinity such as Jakara, Gwauron Dutse, Kukar Tube, Darmanawa and Madatai apart from the already mentioned rocky areas.

Wards established, probably during the early period of the Bagaudawa dynasty include Kutumbawa, Rimin Kira, Adakawa, Mazugal, Karofin Gangamau, Garke, Tuma, Kabuwaya, Karofin Kangiwa, Shatsari, Aikawa, Makwalla, Gangamau and Gwangwazo. The Jukunawa (Kwararrafa people) founded the wards of Yakasai, Sagagi and Kofar Mata in the 7th century while the Katsinawa in the 18th and 19th centuries founded the wards of Kulkul (named after their leader Abdullahi Qul-Qul), Warure and Darmà.

Wards which were named after a famous person included Durumin Aje, Sharfadi, Durumin Iya, Durumin Zungura, Kabara (formerly Jarkasa), Tudun Wada, Malladan, Malam Ganari, Satatima. Juma, Shetima and Dandago. This also indicates the ethnic origins of their inhabitants.

“Meet Professor Galadanci, the first woman consultant, gynaecologist, and Professor of Medicine in the Kano region of Nigeria. She has dedicated her life to reducing maternal and child mortality rates, worked to combat gender disparities in health, and has played a pivotal role in shaping policies relating to critical maternal health challenges worldwide.” “She has authored hundreds of publications and has trained and mentored thousands of health students, enabling them to take on leadership roles across Nigeria and the African region.”
- International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics.

In keeping with the influence of Kano as a learning center, the Khalifa Isyaku Rabiu University; one of the few Qur’anic Universities in the world is commencing academic activities, and in that way solidifying the foundation laid by the Madabo University founded in 1350 in Kano.

In 1350, the 1st & 2nd wave of Wangara clerics who founded Madabo University in Kano named faculties after their Sheikhs thus, we have neighborhoods in present-day Kano named Kabara from Sheikh Kabara, Mandawari from Mandaghri, Sheshe from Shayshe & Zaitawa from Sheikh Zait.

Lt. Hugh Clapperton and his men came to Kano in 1824. When he reached Kano at the time, he was disappointed because not an individual turn his head to gaze at him, but the Kanawa were busy with their businesses and allow him to passed without notice or remark. Clapperton reached Kano, a large walled town with a population of 40,000 people. He was impressed by its size and importance as a trading center, with teeming markets selling produce from all over Africa.

Hausa architecture from Northern Nigeria, is perhaps one of the least known but most beautiful aspects of Hausa culture. It has been in existence for thousands of years & is characterized by bright, colorful, intricately engraved buildings

A thread on Hausa architecture…

-from @BaytAlFann
#RanarHausa 1/ Hausa architecture is the architecture of the Hausa people of Northern Nigeria. Hausa architectural forms include mosques, walls, houses, public buildings, and gates.

Traditional Hausa Mosque
#RanarHausa

The first Hausa man to go to middle school (now secondary school) in Kano was Musa Iliasu and later his brother Salihi Iliasu around the year 1939

The 40year old Musa Ilaisu College; an international school also part of the first-generation private schools in Kano was named after him


Due to the standard maintained by the school over the years, people that attended the school usually send their kids back to study in the same school without hesitation.

In its over 40 years of existence, the school has graduated students from virtually every continent in the world.

Meet Sarki Abba from Kano, the genius that was made to rewrite WASCE after scoring 9 distinctions In 1984, 16-year-old Abba, a student of Science Secondary School Dawakin Tofa, scored 9 distinctions (8 A1 and 1 A2) in his West African Senior School Certificate (WASCE) Exams. Examination authorities in Lagos didn't believe Abba made those excellent scores without cheating. The authorities provided a car that took Abba to Lagos to retake the exam. Abba was made to take the 9 exams in 3 days, under heavy supervision.

Meet the Kano-born Alh. Ibrahim Mijinyawa (The Owner of SAHAD STORES)

He has never taken a bank loan

Doesn’t rent locations for his businesses

Pays all his staff a daily token & offers a free meal to them throughout Ramadan

Pays yearly bonus to all staff.

From @Babanasidi01 Answers all his phone calls.

And reported to have said whoever has his phone number should feel free to give it to whoever asks for it.

He has an open-door policy, and accessible to whoever wants to meet him.

The history of the dethronement/disposition of Sarkis (Emirs) in Kano.

Adapted from a write-up by Adnan Bawa Bello.

1. The 1st ever Sarki recorded to have been deposed/dethroned in Kano was Guguwa Dan Gijimasu (1247-1290). 2. The 2nd Sarki reported to have been deposed/dethroned was Dakauta Dan Abdullahi Baja in 1452. He was said to have ruled in Kano for just 1 day.

“I Will Sell My Cows For You To Become a Pilot”: The Incidence of Babar Mai Fura, Hausa Women & #InternationalWomansDay2023

This super hero mother enrolled her son to a private & prestigious high school in Kano, attended by the well-to-do, & now sponsoring him to become a pilot. Written by Prof Abdallah Uba Adamu @auadamu name was Sadik. Perhaps about 11 years old. He walked into my newly allocated office in the old Mass Communications building of Bayero University Kano (Nigeria) in 2013. I was startled. He was a tiny boy, deep dark skin, beautiful faced

President Muhammadu Buhari @MBuhari commissions 9 projects in Kano Today

1- $10M Professor Hafsat Abdallahi Ganduje Cancer Center 2- Tier IV (41 terabytes memory & 2.2 ventabytes storage capacity) National Data Center, Kano, and
a new office complex for @Galaxybackbone.

Dr. Surajo Salisu, the MD of Jaiz Bank is a graduate from Bayero University Kano. He has an Msc in Monetary Economics from the Uni Port Harcourt & Ph.D from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi

He obtained his 2nd Master’s in Islamic Banking & Finance from Bayero University Islamic Banks in Nigeria.

Meet the Kano-born Alh. Ibrahim Mijinyawa (The Owner of SAHAD STORES)

He has never taken a bank loan

Doesn’t rent locations for his businesses

Pays all his staff a daily token & offers a free meal to them throughout Ramadan

Pays yearly bonus to all staff.

From @Babanasidi01 Answers all his phone calls.

And reported to have said whoever has his phone number should feel free to give it to whoever asks for it.

He has an open-door policy, and accessible to whoever wants to meet him.

Flash Points on Kano's Pre-eminence

1. Kano is the most well-known natural state in Nigeria. Some might out of statism compare Kano with other places that developed via huge political inducements and occurrences in the historical strata of Nigeria. 2. Kano provides a surprising example of a state that is dynamic and naturally sustainable. It has never been a national or regional capital but the dynamism and determination of its people and environment make it a place that is more than a city-state.

The Kano municipal clock tower at the old Kano Native authority building modeled after the London clock tower is one of the oldest colonial buildings in Kano

Its striking chimed clock is one of the largest in S/Saharan Africa. Its chime can be heard from parts of the metropolis. Similar to the London clock tower’s location at the north end of the Palace of Westminster, the Kano municipal clock tower is located at the southern end of the Kano Emir’s place (Gidan Rumfa).

From 1819 to date, Royal concubines (kwarakwarai) were the power behind the throne in Kano. Reproduction was at the core of politics in the Emirate with concubines as the matriarchs. Here, the ultimate power lies with the Mai Baban-Daki (Owner of the Big Room; mother of the Emir) Their status was important in the 19th & 20th centuries as almost all of the Emirs during that time were sons of concubines. Between Sarki (Emir) Ibrahim Dabo (1819-1846) & Sarkin Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, there have only been 2 Emirs (Sarakuna) who were not sons of concubines.

Sarki Rumfa (1463-1499) considered the greatest Emir in the history of Kano, launched reforms in economy, infrastructure, and religion, also saw the introduction of ‘policy on education with his introduction of visualized vocalization of Arabic alphabets as domesticated ‘Ajami’, This revolutionary educational system provided the Muslim Hausa with a literary script through which they were able to communicate, and was maintained until 1903 when, under British colonial administration, it was heavily discouraged by the missionaries (Adamu 2004).

In 1933 the education department of Northern Nigeria organised a competition for teachers to write books of original thoughts in Hausa

Among the competitors were Malams; Abubakar Imam; Bello Kagara & Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (future Prime Minister)
Sadly no lady took part

/1 Some 30years later another prose competition was organised by the Northern Nigeria publishing company in Zaria.

This time around a teenage girl decided to take part. She entered a book she wrote in Hausa and only translated into English when she heard about the competition.