While he was the Chiroma of Kano and District Head of Bichi he became very closely associated with the prominent Ulama.
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When he returned he began the building of the new Kano mosque, the first of its kind in northern Nigeria and still one of the most beautiful mosques in the area.
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As Sarki Kano Bayero was committed to the commercial and industrial development of Kano he encouraged genuine industrial undertakings: for example the Gwamaja Textile Mills, which was the first modern textile producer in Nigeria.
He was charged under the Prostitution and Immoral Acts law of the Sharia penal code, which was reintroduced in Kano in 2000.
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Hamza used a name Fatima Kajawi and lived as a woman with the Adamu family in Kano, northern Nigeria.
It is known for constructing some of Nigeria's infrastructure including the Royal Tropicana Hotel in Kano and the Yola Airport Control tower.
EAS Airlines Flight 4226 was a scheduled flight between the Nigerian cities of Kano (Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport) and Lagos (Murtala Muhammed International Airport).
It covers an area of about 1000 square kilometers and is traversed by the River Kano.
Isah Adam Muhammad (born April 22, 1987 in Kano) is a Nigerian taekwondo practitioner.
On 4 May 2002, Aku was among 70 passengers on board an airliner that crashed minutes after take-off in Kano.
Bad weather at Lagos caused the crew to divert to Kano though the Airport there was experiencing high winds at the time.
Nigeria Airways Flight 9805 was a cargo flight from King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah to Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria.
Protests have taken place across the country, including in the cities of Kano, Ojota ( -part of greater Lagos ), Abuja, and at the Nigerian High Commission in London.
Sway recorded his verse but decided that he was not going to be on the song because of Kano's verse being a 16-bar.
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Kano, another Grime artist that is featured on Pow 2011, recorded a 16-bar rap - when originally everyone was expected to do an 8-bar.
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The van with the money, which is being driven by P Money, stops at a warehouse where Kano is shown hiding the bags of money.
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"Pow 2011" (often capitalized as POW 2011 or POW! 2011) is a single by Grime MC, Lethal Bizzle, featuring fellow grime artists such as JME, Wiley, Chipmunk, Face, P Money, Ghetts and Kano - who are usually credited as Grime All Stars.
He started confronting the British in 1896 and the following year even started marching on Kano, while his vassal Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi founded a fortified capital, Ndele, between Bahr Aouk and the Ubangi River, which he held until 1911.
Bonnke's visit to Kano in Nigeria in 1991 was marred by the outbreak of riots in the city, as Muslims protested over remarks he had reportedly made about Islam in the city of Kaduna on his way to Kano.
More recently, he produced "Raver" featuring Kano, Donae'o and Roses Gabor, plus the UK artist Yasmin's first single, "On My Own".
The large fortress of the southeast central city (Birini) was built shortly thereafter, and became a major hub for trade south through Kano and east to Bornu.
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After the deposition of Muhammad son of Sarki Kano Shehu Usman from Turaki and District Head of Ungogo he appointed his brothers Abdulkadir and Muhammad Inuwa as Galadima and Turaki respectively in 1927.
A few years after the declaration of the Holy War, Yakubu and generals were able to conquer a very large area which came to be bounded in the North by Kano, Misau and Katagum Emirates, in the East by Borno and Gombe, in the South by Miri and Fambi and in the West by Zaria.
The film featured four actors from the 1992 video game Mortal Kombat II: Ho Sung Pak as Lang (the role being a nod to and a play on words for his MKII character Liu Kang), Richard Divizio (a nod to Kano), Daniel Pesina (a nod to Johnny Cage) and Katalin Zamiar (a nod to Mileena).
In Wreck-It Ralph Kesinger's voice is used for the Cyborg, a character based on 'Kano' from Mortal Kombat.
During the attempted coup against General Ibrahim Babangida by Major Gideon Orkar on 22 April 1990, Colonel Alli was commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade in Kano.
Kano was invaluable to Commander Koenig as the person who had the ability to ask Computer the right questions and was privy to confidential computer output before everyone else.
The airline also has scheduled cargo flights to 9 destinations, which do not receive service from Emirates passenger aircraft, namely: Campinas, Chittagong, Djibouti, Eldoret, Gothenburg, Kano, Lilongwe, Taipei and Zaragoza.
The emirate has frequently been at war with the nearby cities of Hadejia, Danzomo, Kano, and Zinder since 1828.
By the 11th century some Hausa states - such as Kano, Katsina, and Gobir - had developed into walled towns engaging in trade, servicing caravans, and the manufacture of various goods.
"I Dig Love" has been covered by artists such as Indian singer Asha Puthli and the Black Crowes, and part of Puthli's version was sampled by UK rapper Kano for his 2005 track "Reload It".
He attended the Provincial Arabic School, Zaria (1969-1970), Law School (now the School for Arabic Studies), Kano (1971-1975) and the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria (1976-1979).
Kano devised a powerful system of new techniques and training methods, which famously culminated on June 11, 1886, in a tournament that would later be dramatized by celebrated Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (黒沢 明 Kurosawa Akira, 1910–1998), in the film "Sanshiro Sugata" (1943).
It also incorporates the Museum of Traditional Nigerian Architecture with life-size replicas of a variety of buildings, from the walls of Kano and the Mosque at Zaria to a Tiv village.
The first time judo was seen in the Olympic Games was in an informal demonstration hosted by Kano at the 1932 Games.
The Kano Accord was a failure, for it offended Libyan interests by excluding pro-Libyan factions like Abba Siddick's "Original FROLINAT" and Ahmat Acyl's Volcan Army, that menaced to form a counter-government if excluded from the GUNT.
Heinrich Barth, a classical scholar who spent several years in northern Nigeria in the 1850s, estimated the percentage of slaves in Kano to be at least 50%, most of whom lived in slave villages.
The Kano model is a theory of product development and customer satisfaction developed in the 1980s by Professor Noriaki Kano, which classifies customer preferences into five categories.
Hiroshige is among the ukiyo-e artists whose work shows influence from the Kanō school.
Gifu Station in Gifu, Gifu, originally called Kanō Station when it opened, served by Central Japan Railway
She lectured in the universities of Exeter (Devon), Massey (New Zealand), Melbourne (Australia), Kano (Nigeria), and worked in the Adult Education Department at University College Cardiff from 1961 until her retirement in 1988.
He won his first Australian National Judo Championships gold medal in 2001, and went on to compete in the Pacific Rim Championships, British Open, Kano Cup (World Level) and then the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, where he placed in the top four.
Muhammad Rumfa was Emir of the Hausa city-state Kano, located in modern-day Kano State, northern Nigeria.
Enterbrain published two volumes of a light novel series titled Photo Kano: Pentaprism Memories, written by Fumihiko Shimo and illustrated by Natsume Shimano, between March and June 2012.
In one action, Corporal Awudo Kano and five Nigerian gunners stayed by their gun during the British attack near Melong in Kamerun, 4 March 1915.
He also appeared in Mortal Kombat II as Baraka, and reprised the role of Kano for both Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat 3, the latter in which he also played the masked hook swordsman Kabal.
The song samples lyrics from Jay-Z's song "Big Pimpin'", which Jay-Z says, "Under the canopy, my stamina be enough for Pamela Anderson Lee", which Kano says instead, "Under the canopy, my stamina be enough for Angelina Jolie".
At the second conference in Kano, both Habré and Goukouni were placed under what amounted to house arrest so Nigeria could promote the chances of a Kanembu leader, Lol Mahamat Choua.