Haruna Ahmad

Keep your Temper to yourself and you get rid of it. Lose your Temper and watch it consume you. The strongest of men are men of restraint.

A Survey of Cairo’s Minarets

@ExplorerAlhaji @shbka_ Indeed a few of the wards' origins were lost in the "courtiers" categorisation.

@shbka_ 90%Accurate✅ you just forget some few wards like salga,'yarmai shinkafi, Aisami etc. and limanchi is wangara. They came from Mali.

List of inner city wards in Kano alongside their founders and main ethnic settlers. Many groups here would identify today as “Kano Hausa” though and may not be aware of their origins.

A biologist once figured out part of this mystery by accident, during a nap. In 1982, Jack Putz lay down under a group of mangrove trees in Costa Rica, looked up, and watched the wind slam their top branches into each other over and over. Every gust snapped off leaves and twigs. So Putz had a theory. When two trees grow close together, they sway in storms and their branches beat each other up. Over years, that beating trims back the treetops where they meet. That wear and tear carves out the gap. A 2015 study backed him up. Researchers checked the branches along these gaps and found that at least half of them had been broken in just the previous six years. Trees are getting slapped around constantly up there. But the theory falls apart in some forests. Alan Rebertus, a scientist who studied a cloud forest where winds hit over 100 kilometers an hour, compared it to sheltered forests. He expected the windy ones to have bigger gaps. They didn't. The gaps looked the same. The Malaysian camphor tree doesn't show any sign of rubbing either. It grows as tall as a 25-story building, and researchers looked carefully where the branches stopped. They found nothing. Whatever was keeping those branches apart, it wasn't physical contact. So there's a second theory, and this one is the part I love. Trees might actually sense each other. Their leaves carry a protein called phytochrome that acts like a little light meter. It notices a kind of light called far-red, which healthy leaves bounce off instead of absorbing. So if a tree's growing tip is suddenly drowning in far-red light, it knows another tree's leaves are right there. The tip stops growing in that direction. The gap forms on its own. Plants even do this politely toward relatives. Next to kin, they back off. But put them next to a stranger and they grow right up in the neighbor's face. The honest answer to what we're looking at in the sky is: we don't fully know. Probably wind in some species, light sensing in others. Plenty of trees do both at the same time. A hundred years of science and nobody has cracked it.

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

@anishmoonka Nigerian Doctors, Head of State Yakubu Gowon, President Jimmy Carter and his Foundation etc. are all major players in achieving this.

@shbka_ Unguwar Gini sighted. We are accounted for.

They don’t make cars like this anymore. BMW E30🤩

Dude saw prime Jordan, Bron, Shaq, Kobe & Curry. He has war stories very few can relate to 😭

Da gani wasu basu ma san da wangarawa ma a wannan harkar ba tunda na ga musun su a iya Hausa da Fulani suka tsaya.

@ummarulfarouk @BarmoGumi @MrAbuSidiq @trueNija @ishakaa Papi passed away since June 2023. Allah Ya jikan shi da rahama.

Please where is @BarmoGumi? Cc @MrAbuSidiq @trueNija @ishakaa

@sadiqGsadiq It is plausible that it irritates you but also, because of the allowance in Sunnah for some sound to be heard in at least three of the four situations (ruku', sujud and post prayer adhkar), I'd recommend that you persevere. Allah ya taimake mu.

I dislike praying near people who recite their sujud and ruku supplications out loud, or those who say their tahiyya and post-prayer supplications aloud. The sound irritates me

@zvyyvd Za ka ɗaga min BP Mallam. Allah ya kawo mana sauƙi.

King of shame, Shame of thrones, Alchemy of Shame, Shame before flowers, Mortal Shamebat, Avatar: The last shamebender, the Great Wall of shame, goosebumps of shame, Agu na shamenba, 50 shades of shame , almighty shame, extraordinary Shame walk of shame. A Reason to Shame😭😭😭😭

@Shishe3722801 A mother? Always a mother!

Why does the lady remind me of page van zant🥰

@zvyyvd Daɗi kashe Ni.

@zvyyvd Daga quadruple zuwa single. 😂

With OO Braimah's demise, another commando has departed. Sad.

I know you are a good person cus I would have lied that I lost 200 pounds Who would know I’m lying

God just didn’t create the earth in six days, He created the heavens and the earth in six days. “Indeed, your Lord is Allah, who created the heavens and the earth in six days…” (Surah Al-A‘raf 7:54) The earth is just one of 200-400 Billion planets in a galaxy of 2 trillion galaxies. Everything we see of 2 trillion galaxies is just 4% of what is out there, (the observable universe), we still don’t know 96% of the whole universe of the first heaven. And the first heaven compared to the second heaven is like a ring in a desert and so on. The 7 heavens compared to the Kursiy of Allah is like a ring in a desert. The 7 heavens and the kursiy of Allah compared to the throne of Allah is like a ring in a desert. To us, this is magnificent, to Almighty Allah, the whole of the heavens plus the Kursiy and the throne of Allah is just another kun fa yakun. He can decide to create or destroy it in a second. He is Allah The Almighty The All-Powerful He does as He wills, None can question His decree, And none can overturn His command, When He intends a thing, He only says to it, “Be,” and it is, His will is absolute, His power is complete, He gives to whom He wills, and withholds from whom He wills, He elevates whom He wills, and humbles whom He wills, He is never compelled, never constrained, Nothing in the heavens or the earth escapes His will, He is Allah… The Doer of whatever He wills, Perfect in His wisdom, even when we do not understand. The Creator of the heavens without pillars, The Fashioner of the human soul with perfect precision. The One who placed the stars as lamps in the sky, And set the sun and moon in perfect balance, The Giver of life and the Taker of it, The Ever-Living, who never dies, The Sustainer, whom all creation depends upon, The Knower of the seen and the unseen, The First, nothing came before Him, The Last, nothing will remain after Him, The Most High, above all that we can imagine, He is Allah… There is none worthy of worship except Him. Subhanahu wa ta’ala 🤍

@zvyyvd Ba komai su Sachs da Mearsheimer za su ji su kai mishi labari.