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Item An Appraisal of Economic Status of the Multi-Ethnic Groups in Kano City for National Integration(Department of History and International Studies, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State, Nigeria., 2022-12) SULEIMAN, AbdulRahman AdebayoCrises tensed in the northern part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria between 2008 and 2015. From 2016 to 2018 the government asserted different approaches to stricken out the menace. Nigerians, especially those from outside the crises theatre and the international communities are nursing different interpretations against the Northerners of Nigeria. They raised tensions, psychic trauma, insecurity and loss of hope about the sustenance of Nigerian unity. Only few individuals care to delve into the past relations of the northerners and other Nigerians so as to provide a manipulative strategy against the crises. However, this study examines the economic relations of the Kanawa (the people of Kano) and few linguistic group of Nigeria.as a panacea to adjust the feelings of people who are losing interest in the unity of Nigeria as a state of nations. The study adopted historical methodology, by making use of the primary and secondary sources of information. The work covers the pre-Colonial, Colonial and post-Colonial periods of relations among the ethnic groups in Kano. The paper concludes that the adjustment of the mental attitude of individuals toward change and sustenance of the country is germane to the historical assessment of issues and events.Item Traditional Medical Practices in Ilorin Emirate up to 1900(Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria., 2020-09) SULEIMAN, AbdulRahman Adebayo; ONAGUN, RasheedA couple of factors precipitated the fame, strength and power of Ilorin Emirate in the 19th century. These factors range from strategic location as a transit region, economy, and cultural heterogeneity, military as well as medicine. The paper discusses the significance and impact of traditional medicine in the sustenance of Ilorin Emirate as a power to reckon with in the 19th century. It also discusses how Ilorin traditional professional healthcare providers have protected the community against diseases and epidemics, and how several common or ordinary, and severe ailments were cured. Huge success recorded in ensuring the healthy wellbeing of her people prompted the native to repose high trust and confidence in traditional medicine, and their anxiety, shunning and rejection of Colonial health services in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The paper uses secondary and primary sources such as oral interviews secured from resource persons, traditional medicinal items, and pictorial evidences of diagnosis, oracles and religious venerations to analyze how holistic medical cultures had helped to ensure and sustain the healthcare and wellbeing of the people of Ilorin in the 19th century.