The three previous columns have opened the floodgates of bitter stories from our academia. It seems everybody has a story to tell. I've decided to share two of the most poignant ones here. If you have similar stories, please email them to me. In the meantime, here are Abbey and Super K'waro:
When we started IJMB in CAS Kano, we met someone whom we later nick named Super K'waro due to his exceptional brilliance. Super K'waro was excellent in all science subjects (especially mathematics); this made our lecturers feared saying in the class anything of which they were not sure. He always unsettled them with probing questions. And his English was so impeccable even at that stage, despite been from a rural area - a village in Jahun LGA of Jigawa State.
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