Last Saturday at BUK old site playground, a novelty basketball was put in place to celebrate the appointment of an old BUK basketballer Ali Muhammad Ali.

Ali M. Ali popularly known as Donkin Wizard in his playing days was appointed along with others personalities as chief Executive Officers of Federal Government parastatals.

Indeed, it was a gathering of old good friends some of whom were course mates, playmates while others school mates who had lost contact for years and some for decades because of being in various places serving their fatherland.

Ali, a well-known, articulate, polished journalist and commentator, was made the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by the President Bola Ahmad Tunibu. 

Congratulations.

By Sani Yusif

I was at the production unit of the Triumph Publishing Company, Kano but my keen interest in sports journalism made me to be sports writer and maintained a sports column called (Sports Eye) after my mentor Sani Muhammad Zaria transferred his service to New Nigeria newspapers in Kaduna. And when the government closed the Triumph in 2012, I was transfered to lectured DTP in the Department of Printing Technology of Kano State Polytechnic. And now that I retired, i used to visit the institution weekends for part-time lecturing.