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Why DSP Barau Deserves More Prayers in Holy Ramadhan

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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;98&period;1 -->&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;"Okzbz3ZR" 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>By Abba Anwar<&sol;p><div class&equals;"m9lnDwa9" 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>The universal understanding of real life&comma; that&comma; one good turn deserves another&comma; can comfortably be applicable to the Deputy Senate President&comma; His Excellency Barau I Jibrin&comma; CFR&comma; particularly with prayers during this Holy Month of Ramadhan Fasting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It can as well be applicable to almost all our political leaders&comma; within the fold of All Progressives Congress &lpar;APC&rpar; here in Kano&period; But because of the limited space and time&comma; I cannot mention all in this brief piece&period; My fundamental reason for limiting my piece on the DSP&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I just want&comma; without much ado&comma; touch some fundamental interventions of the Senator&comma; which&comma; to me&comma; deserve sober reflection&comma; commendation and good prayers for him to do more and be rewarded Divinely&period; To embellish that in a strengthened manner is timely and apt&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"uWVuJoCb" 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>Without being clouded by feelings&comma; emotions or impulses&comma; Distinguished Senator Jibrin is not only a pillar&comma; he is as well&comma; a bridge builder&comma; who cements and reinforces parts of the ruling APC for stronger ties and cohesion&period; Recent happenings within the fold of the party&comma; cleared many doubts and concoctions&period; When I saw him exchanging banters and pleasantries with other top notch individuals around the corridor of APC power circle&comma; it occurred to me that&comma; leaders started filling cylinders and fixing correct blocks everywhere&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98&period;1 -->&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>Coming back to the identified interventions and adorable actions&comma; that pave way for requesting prayers for the DSP&comma; let me begin with the most recent events&period; First and foremost&comma; we all appreciate his magnanimity and humane contributions to the victims of Singa market inferno&period; Where he donated the large sum One Hundred Million Naira &lpar;N100m&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Secondly&comma; in this row&comma; is his jettisoning of his gubernatorial ambition&comma; calling on His Excellency&comma; the Governor of Kano State&comma; Abba Kabir Yusuf&comma; to carry on&comma; in search of second tenure&period; Many believe&comma; he did that for absolute peace to reign in the party&comma; the state and the polity in general&period; This singular action doused tension and internal rivalry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He needs to be commended for the bitter decision&period; Which is characterized by bitter political realities&period; Though&comma; some still believe that&comma; the pronouncement was crafty and abstract&period; But his political actions immediately after that pronouncement&comma; show clearly that&comma; he spoke his mind and damn the consequences&period; It definitely takes great minds to act this way&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The same observers believe that&comma; he did that because he was promised the position of Senate President&comma; in the next dispensation&period; So from whichever angle you look at the prism&comma; DSP Jibrin needs Divine intervention and more support&period; His is&comma; supplication&comma; supplication and supplication&period; In a tautologous style I say&comma; prayers&comma; prayers and prayers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This brief piece does not concentrate only on his contributions while he is currently the Deputy Senate President&period; Some of the contributions I included were seen long before now&period; And I didn&&num;8217&semi;t use any chronological order in presenting them here&period; So forgive my style of presentation&period; Is not intentionally done to dilly-dally with periscopic look&sol;search of my readers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For his great concern for the insecurity plaguing the state&comma; he donated operational vehicles&comma; to the Kano State Police Command&period; Where dozens of vehicles were given to help in taming the nefarious activities of the underworld&period; He didn&&num;8217&semi;t stop at that&comma; he donated over one thousand motorcycles to Police personnel in the state&period; With a special event that took place at the State Command&comma; Bompai&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Under this&comma; his specific contribution to Police Zonal offices and Divisional Police offices under his constituency&comma; Kano North&comma; is superb&comma; encouraging and undisputed&period; He believes in strengthening our security agencies&comma; for them to work harder for proper protection and security of our land&period; Some of the contributions around security system&comma; are not for public eyes or ears&period; For security reasons also&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98&period;1 -->&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>His strong feeling in the education sector&comma; being the engine room for genuine development&comma; his intervention in the sector speaks voluminously&period; From his hands in the structural development in the sector&comma; to his enhanced support for individual students&comma; Senator Jibrin&comma; is building indelible mark of honour&period; Under many platforms&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To begin with individual students &lpar;beneficiaries&rpar;&comma; in the education sector&comma; the people&&num;8217&semi;s Senator sponsored 70 students under his programme of Foreign Postgraduate Scholarships&period; And modern fields of study were their chosen areas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They are currently abroad studying AI Machine Learning&comma; Cyber Forensics&comma; Robotics Engineering&comma; Software Engineering&comma; Chemical Engineering&comma; among other influencial courses&period; The scholarship is fully funded&comma; with tuition&comma; feeding&comma; medicals&comma; flights and allowance&period; This is DSP for you&period; I think he deserves our prayers&period; True or false&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Payment of scholarship allowances to 4&comma;183 students of the Federal College of Education&comma; FCE &lpar;Technical&rpar;&comma; Bichi&period; Whereas the sum of Fifty Thousand Naira &lpar;₦50&comma;000&rpar; is awarded to each undergraduate students&period; While the sum of Twenty Thousand Naira &lpar;₦20&comma;000&rpar; is given to each student studying National Certificate of Education &lpar;NCE&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Bayero University&comma; Kano&comma; 1&comma;052 students were awarded with the sum of Fifty Thousand Naira<br &sol;>&NewLine;&lpar;₦50&comma;000&rpar; for each and every student&period; As 1&comma;000 undergraduate students of benefited as their scholarship award in<br &sol;>&NewLine;Federal University Dutsin-Ma&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As 300 beneficiaries for Domestic Postgraduate Scholarships<br &sol;>&NewLine;Across top Nigerian universities were sponsored with full scholarship also&period; First Batch 99 percent completed&period; 1&comma;000 indigent students were given the sum of Twenty Thousand Naira &lpar;N20&comma;000&rpar;&comma; to each student who study at Northwest University&comma; Kano&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another set of 870 students of Northwest University&comma; Kano were awarded with the sum of Twenty Thousand Naira &lpar;N20&comma;000&rpar; to each student&period; While before that&comma; another set of 628 undergraduate students of Bayero University&comma; Kano&comma; were awarded with the sum of Fifty Thousand Naira &lpar;N50&comma;000&rpar; to each of the students&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Without fear of mincing words&comma; or acrobatic expression&comma; my reader can accept my suggestion that DSP deserves standing ovation&comma; genuine appreciation&comma; well wish and prayers&period; Especially in this Holy Month of Ramadhan&period; Yes&comma; being a human being&comma; he may err&comma; in some areas&period; But let&&num;8217&semi;s concentrate on his good sides&comma; circumstances and styles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Still in the education sector&comma; let&&num;8217&semi;s look at some&comma; very few&comma; of his contributions in the area&period; His effort in the establishment of Federal University of Science and Technology&comma; Kabo&comma; is not only commendable&comma; but a true legacy of a great man&period; Come to think of development of education&comma; job opportunities&comma; fight against youth restiveness&comma; among others&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He effected the establishment of dozens of National Open University of Nigeria &lpar;NOUN&rpar; Satellite Campuses across the 13 Local Governments under his Constituency&comma; Kano North&period; This enhances pursuance of knowledge by his people&period; In his immediate Constituency&period; Not to talk of the simplification process of this onerous effort&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To further improve the progress of our youth across the state&comma; he singlehandedly strive and saw to the establishment of Satellite Campuses for Federal University Dutsinma&comma; &lpar;FUDMA&rpar;&comma; in Kano&period; That is why we have hundreds of students of FUDMA studying in Kano&period; Almost all of them are sponsored by the Senator for their undergraduate programmes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To strengthen the commitment of the party leadership to the party philosophy and manifestation&comma; Senator Jibrin was frequent in his distribution of vehicles and other forms of transportation to leaders in his Constituency&period; For them&comma; the party leaders and elders&comma; could do more and sacrifice a lot to the survival of the party&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He repeated the same gesture recently in his donation of vehicles to APC leadership in his constituency&period; And donation of vehicles to the local governments Chairmen&comma; Vice Chairmen and Secretaries&period; To enhance local government administration&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the area of specific humanitarian services&comma; Distinguished Senator Jibrin&comma; saved the people of Bagwai and surrounding areas from menace frequent canoe mishaps in Bagwai river&comma; that was visiting the people of the area in different occasions&period; He bought modern canoes to save the situation&period; Since then&comma; we didn&&num;8217&semi;t hear of any mishaps again&period; He saved the lives of many&period; This gentleman deserves our prayers&comma; anyway&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For the overall development of our region&comma; North West&comma; DSP pushed hard&comma; conceived the idea of development agency&comma; when he presented a Bill for the establishment of North West Development Commission &lpar;NWDC&rpar; to the floor of the Senate&period; He sponsored the Bill&comma; toiled over it&comma; labored for it and&comma; along others&comma; gave birth to it&period; As he strived to see the passed Bill&comma; then&comma; got Presidential stamp&period; What remains now&comma; is the take-off of the Commission&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Anwar writes from Kano<br &sol;>&NewLine;Friday&comma; 20th February&comma; 2026<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98&period;1 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<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" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"autorelaxed" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; 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