THE LABOUR OF OUR HEROES PAST…. Life is like a stage, some have acted, we are acting and some are still coming to act. I was having a conversation a fortnight ago with a senior colleague, he told me he once had a show of shame in a job interview when the interviewer asked him what hostel did you stay in your final session, he replied and said El-kanemi. Then the next question was, tell us what you know about the great El-kanemi. Sadly, he was silent because he did not know and had never read who he was and that was how the interview ended and he missed the job. This and other reasons are why I painstakingly compile this brief history of notable names of some undergraduate’s hall of residence on the University of Lagos main campus. QUEEN AMINA was a Hausa Muslim warrior, her date of birth was dated by to 1533, and she was the Queen of Zazzau (now Zaria) in what is now north central Nigeria. As an adult she refused to marry like Queen Elizabeth the first of England for th...
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