Do You Know IBK? He Burst My Bubble. But He’s Right By Prof. Gbenga Ibileye

Let me start this piece by asking: Do you know Ibrahim Bello Kano? You probably don’t know him. But do you know IBK? Oh yes, you know IBK. Ibrahim Bello Kano is the same as IBK, and IBK is the same as Ibrahim Bello Kano. IBK is his sobriquet, his social and intellectual insignia, as it were. The same IBK! That Professor of English at Bayero University Kano, BUK. A lot of people may be familiar with IBK but not with what he stands for. Ok, I know IBK and…

MY ASUU COLLEAGUES AND “DOOMSDAY PREPPING” By Ibrahim Bello-Kano

Not many people have heard of the term “doomsday prepping”. It’s a common mentality among people who suspect that some disaster, some doomsday, is coming their way. In my view, university lecturers should adopt the “doomsday prepping” mentality for many reasons. Nigeria is changing for the worse, and very rapidly. The economy is in rapid decline, the roads are primitive, and the security situation is abysmal. The present Administration is implementing a wholesale set of neo-liberal economic policies which is meant to transfer resources from the poor to the rich…