Toggle navigation  HOME LIFE > FAITH LIFE Nana Asma’u: A woman of knowledge in Africa 316 days ago 690 views  Ameera Abid Feminism, gender equality, and woman empowerment all seem like phenomenon of the modern world. However, if you are to dive deeper in Islamic history you will come across influential Muslim women in all phases of history in all the different ranks. You will find women who were warriors, leaders, scholars, advisors who worked together with men to give us the lives we are living today. Throughout our education we are taught about some of the prominent figures in Islam, such as the four rightly guided Caliphs and the wives of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Today, I would like to shed light on a very important woman who you probably never heard of, Nana Asma’u. This woman was the daughter of the founder of theSokoto Caliphate, Usman Dan Fodio, in Nigeria. She was a poet, teacher, and a princess. She devoted her life to educating the women of h...
Unpaid Debt: AMCON set to take over Ben Murray-Bruce’s companies, assets June 23, 2016Musikilu Mojeed Excerpt there is a last-minutes change in plans, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) will on Thursday morning take over the assets of three companies belonging to politician Ben Murray-Bruce and his brothers. The assets are being seized following the failure of Senator Murray-Bruce and his brothers to settle an N11 billion loan owed Union Bank and acquired by AMCON. AMCON was established on July 9, 2010, as a key stabilizing and re-vitalizing tool for stabilising the nation’s financial system. Its enabling law empowers it to acquire non-performing loan assets of Nigerian banks at fair values and then put them to economic use in a profitable manner. Mr. Murray Bruce and his brothers, using their companies, had between 2005 and 2007 borrowed various sums of money from Union Bank. After they repeatedly defaulted in paying back, AMCON purchased the loan i...
The reason there’s no vaccine for HIV/AIDS, the National Institutes of Health explains, is because HIV has “unique ways of evading the immune system, and the human body seems incapable of mounting an effective immune response against it.” A recently published animal study further clarifies the problem by showing how vaccines designed to protect against HIV backfire, leading to an increase, not decrease, in new infections. Specifically, it is the higher number of activated CD4+ T cells which may be a possible cause for spiking rates of new infection among those already vaccinated. “The virus infects the very cells of the immune system that any vaccine is supposed to [activate],” Dr. Guido Silvestri, senior author and chief of microbiology and immunology at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, stated in a press release . The vaccines meant to prevent disease seem to make the target larger and therefore easier to hit. Killer Cells and The...
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