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Usman Aliyu was born of Aliyu Mu'azu, Sarkin Yakin Minna and Amina Usa, on Wednesday June 17, 1953 in Minna, Niger. His Academic quest ran thus: Elementary Education, Minna and Sokoto: Secondary Education, Birnin Kebbi: Higher School Certificate (HSC), Sokoto Bachelors Degree (BA), (ABU) Kano: Post Graduate Diploma (PGD), London. His other engagements were: Co-operatives, Abuja till June, 1972. National Youth Service (NYSC), Lagos. Employment with (NTA), Minna Film Production, Usana Complex Minna. Bricks Manufacture, Minna and Funtua. Usman Aliyu was a family man with seven pairs of children: seven daughters and seven sons, including a double set of twins! The authors books are primarily designed for educational purposes. One of them, Eye for Order, is currently indexed by the WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATION COUNCIL (WEAC) against 2011-2015 (WASSCE) examinations. All these books are also on the internet, available for review, under Google Book Search.

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Gone Missing Eye for Order A Widows Dew Beyond Guilt Retailing Power The Children of the Republic Loners Flash

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GONE MISSING: SERIES 1
Kabir is eight, adventurous and a pleasant company. He has a day of outing through the streets of Minna only to go missing. Like Kabir, is Nigeria missing too? The country is not getting due attention. In fact, every thing is speedily falling apart. The experts observed. Kabirs family is searching, so is the police, but the kid is no where to be found. His mother is sad and afraid, yet his father, Yakubu, is anxious to get an assignment done; that is, about Nigeria, he used to think that he had made the right decision to join the civil service, in the tradition of his parents; his father was born in it, and his grandfather matured in it, he himself had been nurtured through it. But, he feared his own son would soon be abandoned by it. The brains are out looking for solution! What is it, and where? Maintenance they said, is the key. At the end, Kabir is back - but what of Nigeria?

It has become fashionable for officials to call their own government incapable, or insufficient, or anything but responsible. Yakubu wants to change that! This workaholic has been given an ominous task of reviving an abandoned outpost called Rangana. Will he use the traditional lopsided colonial legacy or the equitable but radical module of his subordinates to scale this one?

village near Rangana. Malam Yakubu learns that Mahe had gone to Minna and had come back with (it). Everyone in the village was dying. Soon, Yakubu assembled a team of experts, determined to prevent this tiny killer-virus from visiting the next house in the next village!

RETAILING POWER: DRAMA PLAY

Raidore is energetic, with much zeal to provide for his family, and to get his children educated. Nevertheless, he lives in an environment where untailored expenditure is the craze; no wonder, his job is always the first to suffer. Luckily, he has a resourceful son. When the family seems to reach the dead end, Nasir suggests an opening to get them out of the woods.

A WIDOWS DEW: SERIES 3

Kabir, as always is on holidays; we expect much to happen. In this, its Safiya, their mother, which takes the bait; nothing, she tells herself will bar her from fighting for Zainab. Zainab, her onetime friend, though, is not aware of any woman, widowed through accidents, who had any compensation advanced to her. Yet, Safiya is adamant, as she assembles a team of aids; Jamilu who was agonized to watch Zainab, his mother cry, Sagir, the killer-boy, Aminu, Umar and, of course, Kabir. The other combatants: Amaale had made up his mindhe wasnt going to do any paying back anything in heavens, Maigamu and Zubairu, the bug-eyed bugaboo, and a heavyweight that can bring the lives of others down. At the end, Safiya could say, with glee. What you get is not a shower;its like dew. A widows dew? Zainab asked jokingly. Yes, Safiya replied with a smile. Well Hajiya, I have been so parched this long; the dew is a torrent to me. Zainab smiled.

THE CHILDREN OF THE REPUBLIC: A PLAY

This is about a group, the children in a republic. These children always grow unnaturally fast. Their lifestyle is also the standard: selfcentredness, greedy, miserly and overindulgence. How do they manage all that? Easy: they pay and bulldoze their way through. As a result, they rear mean wives, heartless children and wicked friends. Finally, they make smooth their path to misery. Will the children of this republic ever learn any lesson?

EYE FOR ORDER: SERIES 2

Once again, Kabir is on holidays. This time though, the chase starts at Gurara Falls. Kabir has a brief debate whether to run or to stay, but he was forced to a decision. He peeped and saw a car that is being grabbed! Later, he decides to find the car, to prove to that he wasnt lyingabout the snatched car and the skinny man. He involves Umar into this; no wonder, Umar is jittery; Whats mum going to say now? Safiya, their mother, though, is always happy when the kids help the law; be watchful. Aminu, the smart fellow from Birnin Shehu, is left to cover for the two as they finally bring the criminals down; I have been outrunning the police, but here I am, locked in by a kid...just a small kid. But these are no ordinary kids; they never stopped asking questions. Their father, Malam Yakubu, is in office, this while, looking for certain disquieting proposal to cook for the rather poor government.

LONERS FLASH
This is a collection of poems originating from the early years of the poet. They deal with a variety of subjects reflecting on life. The collection is not arranged in any recognizable pattern, however. This is done to sustain both the sense of surprise and some interest at the lack of order in which events normally just crop up in real life; or is there?

BEYOND GUILT: SERIES 4

The danger in this is real. Individuals are dying. Why? There is a strange thing called HIV/AIDS, a killer with no cure. Kabir and Umar learn that soon enough. They meet Atiku who is seriously ill. They swiftly get their parents involved. Before long, Safiya would wish Kabir had kept his tiny body in one place. That wont be fun, mum. He observed. The search for remedy leads to Atikus Aina, a

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