Emir of Fika appoints Neptune Prime CEO to organising committee for 600-year anniversary celebration of Fika people in Daniski
His Royal Highness, the Emir of Fika, Alhaji (Dr) Muhammadu Abali Ibn Muhammadu Idrissa, CON, CFR, has appointed Neptune Prime CEO/Publisher, Dr Hassan Gimba, anipr, as a member of the Exhibition of Artifacts and Arts Sub-Committee constituted to organise the 600 years Anniversary celebration of the arrival of the people of Fika Emirate to Daniski, from where they moved to Fika.
This was announced in an appointment letter signed by Alhaji Mohammed Maina Waziri, Dalan Fika.
He said the Sub-Committee of the Central Coordinating Committee is being constituted to fast track the preparation of the momentous event.
The committee will be inaugurated by HRH the Emir of Fika on Thursday October 31, 2024, by 11 o’clock in the Emir’s Palace.
Alhaji Waziri conveyed the emir’s kind wishes and full support to the committee members as they deliver on the assigned mandate.
The letter equally explained the membership of the committee and terms of reference.
Members of the Exhibition of Artifacts and Arts to mark the 600-year celebration anniversary of the History of Fika Emirate include Professor Maina Gimba (Chairman), Professor Mohammed Dauda (Member), Professor Amina Bashir (Member) and Professor Abdullahi H. Godowoli (Member).
Others are Alhaji Kolo Kori (Member), Alhaji Musa Daya (DH Member), Alhaji Dahiru Zeyi, Sarkin Adabi, (Member), Dr Hassan Gimba (Member), Alhaji Adamu Ba’aba, Ganama of Fika, (Member), and Malam Nata’ala Wakili, Palace Curator, (Member/Secretary).
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Purpose of the Anniversary
Celebration of 600 years of The History of Fika Emirate 2024 marks the 600th year of the enthronement of idris 1 in succession to his father, Magaji Mivis as the Moi (leader) of the Bolewa.
Records show that he became the leader in 1424. All the indigenous ethnic groups in the erstwhile Fika Emirate claim they originated from Arabia.
According to the late John E Lavers, the core ethnic groups are the Bolewa, Ngizim, karekare and Ngamo. Records have shown the Bolewa had settled on the shores of Lake Chad along with many other ethnic groups.
For various reasons and at different times many of the groups dispersed from the shores of lake chad in different directions. The Bolewas for instance broke into four groups and each following a different direction. The Bolewas that are found in Yobe State eventually settled in Daniski hills for hundreds of years until they located their emirate headquarters to Fika in 1804.
During the British colonial expansionism, the British subdued Fika in 1903 and brought Potiskum under the Fika Emirate in 1915. In 1924 the Emirate headquarters was moved to Potiskum. That was during the reign of Alhaji Muhammadu Ibn idrissa the grandfather of the current Emir Muhammadu Ibn Abali Muhammadu.
Today the Bolewas can be found in Yobe, Gombe and Bauchi States and despite the migratory movement of the Bolewa and the wars of survival waged during this period over many centuries, they kept their records of movement in the last 600 years in Arabic.
This is an attestation that Islam had taken root in Fika Emirate earlier. The purpose of this celebration is to mark the migration of the Bolewas from Borno area to the area today known as Yobe State which spanned a period of 600 years during which they traversed geographical zones and settled in over 20 places before finally settling down in one location.
It tells a story of how social interaction and intermarriages between different ethnic groups in old Fika Emirate had led, against may odds to tolerance, endurance and understanding.
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