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Badamasi Burji @ 52 : Garlands to a Serial Entrepreneur and Uncommon Philantropist

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"4SMOhxVv" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><strong>By Ahmad Muhammad Danyaro<&sol;strong><&sol;p><div class&equals;"rRKbNsZd" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>History is full of testimonies&comma; promises and antecedents that many important people across the world have been remembered for various reasons&comma; and for becoming outstanding in human affairs&comma; some for their simplicity&comma; others for their generosity&comma; many more for their compassion and still others for commendable act&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In his success story&comma; few people erroneously tend to view it as if he employed underhand tactics to achieve them and in the process underestimate his midas touch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The fact remains that he attained his present height through dint of hard work and unparalleled exhibition of moral discipline&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"qdpTycEc" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>In the lives of many&comma; birthdays are usually periods for sober reflections &period;The period for stocktaking&period; Numerous personalities with eyes on the verdict of history use such occasions to reflect on their contributions to the betterment  or otherwise of their societies &period;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2020&sol;06&sol;14&sol;prof-odinkalu-52-garland-for-an-unrepentant-human-rights-activist&sol;">Prof Odinkalu &commat;52&colon; Garland for an unrepentant Human Rights Activist<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>For Mr Badamasi &comma;he would have wished that the occasion of his 52nd birthday anniversary on &grave;15th  November 2020&comma;  be observed silently in strict compliance with his natural humility and simplicity&period; But the man is not an ordinary man today as he is the Group Managing Director &sol; CEO of First Class Group and Founder &comma;Badamasi Burji Foundation &period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Alh&period; Badamasi Buruji was born on November 15&comma; 1968&comma; in Burji village&period;He is a publisher&comma; entrepreneur&comma; writer&comma; journalist and a generous philanthropist&period;He attended Burji Central Primary School from 1973 to 1980 before proceeding to Government Technical College&comma; Wudil from 1980 to 1985&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He worked with Forestry Division in Birniwa&comma; now in Jigawa State&comma; for a while&period;After working for the Forestry Division&comma; he finally relocated to Kano metropolis where he joined his uncle&comma; Alhaji Salisu Hamza Kadawa&comma; to be part of his industrial chemical business &lpar;Nasibi Pest Control Enterprise&rpar;&period; He served as a sales manager&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Not long after&comma; he got back to school to study Mass Communication at Bayero University&comma; Kano&comma; after which  Burji attended the Institute of Alazhar &lpar;ALIYU IBN ABI Talib Kano&comma; from 1986 to 1987 &rpar; for religious study&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He worked with Danfodio Islamiyya School as a teacher and personal assistant to the school’s proprietor&comma; Malam Mahmud Aliyu Mahmud from 1987 to1999&period;After that&comma; he ventured into the world of business and entrepreneurship by joining Nagari General Enterprise&comma; a leading gas and electric gas cooker distributor in Kano&period;He served as a chief accountant&period;His stellar performance propelled him to the position of the managing director&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The momentum the company gathered under Burji helped it expand to the extent that more branches were opened in different places in Kano&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company soon expanded to trade in cosmetics&comma; goods&comma; services&comma; and bookshops&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Burji&comma; as he is popularly referred to&comma; is an author of many books both fictional and prose&semi; he is also the publisher of Concern magazine and one-time chairman of the Association of Nigerian Authors &lpar;ANA&rpar;&comma; Kano branch and a senior member of Nigerian Guild of Editors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Badamasi Burji  Foundation was established in 2015&comma; which started with sponsorship of the establishment of special  Islamic and Western primary and secondary school in the area with about 5&comma;212 pupils currently studying and with the gestures of free education&comma; free uniforms&comma;  free feeding&comma; free books and writing materials&period; Living in a conducive environment with well furnished classrooms&period; It has sponsored 109 students 98 girls and 11 boys into different junior secondary schools&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Girl-Child Empowerment programme was also initiated with the aim of training the young girls in various skills with a view to making them become self-dependent&period; The initiative behind the empowerment programme is to minimize rural migration to the urban centre&comma; job creation&comma; self reliance and create opportunity for the community to improve the socio-economic development of the area&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The women had already been trained in different kinds of businesses which include soap making&comma; pomade&comma; menthol&comma; toiletries and many more&period; Second batch of the empowerment programme will soon kick start&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The foundation is embarking on free plantation to go with the climate change&period; Which include social&comma; communal&comma; environmental and economic benefit to the society&period; In part of the world programme  of making the environment green&period; BBF launched  10&comma;000 &lpar;Ten Thousand&rpar; Trees to be done by the school children&comma; their parents and adult education centre students&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Today&comma; the condition of public education in many states in the region is very poor&period; Most schools here lack qualified teachers and teaching materials&comma; even as school buildings are alarmingly dilapidated&period; And corruption thrives among education managers&comma; who would rather send their children and wards to private schools&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is for all these reasons that Malam Badamasi Burji sacrifices to reverse the ugly trend&comma; reducing the number of out of school children in his locality by freely providing qualitative education for men&comma; women&comma; and children in Burji&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This manifest in his philanthropic strides that have ensured the construction and establishment of a community school engaging five thousand&comma; two hundred and twelve  &lpar;5&comma;212&rpar; students&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Burji strive to become a journalist&comma; biographer and  author&comma; venturing into printing afterwards&period; Today&comma; one of his firms is spearheading printing in Northern Nigeria&comma; specializing in educational books for nursery and primary schools and other publications for library use&period; He recently opened a restaurant that serves mouth-watering traditional dishes and delicacies&comma; offering take-out and catering services&period; A consummate manufacturer of packaged foods too&comma; his products are marketed nationwide and exported to  Malaysia&comma; Ethiopia&comma; Turkey&comma; China&comma; the United Arab Emirate&comma; the United States&comma; and so on&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One of the Burji proposal&&num;8217&semi;s is to build National open university community study centre which already has been approved to do it in his Burji community&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mallam Badamasi Burji  is a man who has distinguished himself in the service of his beloved community&comma;  home state of Kano and indeed&comma; Nigeria as a whole&period; He is man who is active and decisive who weighs intellect against intuition&comma; which is fair and firm in his dealings&comma; a man who encourages cooperation rather than confrontation as he works in partnership with others&period; He is a man who bears all that comes his way with internal grace and humour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By any benchmark one deploys to assess him&comma; and in whatever clime in our firmament of the planet earth&comma; Mallam Badamasi S&period;Burji&comma; the Group Managing Director of First Class Group and Founder of Badamasi Burji Foundation &comma; is a stunning success&comma; a unique gift to humanity  and he deserve to be celebrated by all and sundry within the Nigerian geography  and beyond as he turned 52 years on the planet &period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Danyaro wrote in from Wuse 2 Abuja and can be reached on ahmaddanyaro2017&commat;gmail&period;com<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 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