WHO IS bello sagir imam?

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The Kano born Bello Sagir Imam was brought up in the forgoing ancient city in Nigeria. He attended Bahrun Nada Primary School, Kano Government College (KTC/KGC). Bello proceeded to Aminu Kano College Of Islamic and Legal Studies (AKCILS), Kano, where he was certificated with a Diploma in Civil Law. At AKCILS, he held the post of the college branch Secretary General of Nassarawa Local Government Students Association (NALSA).

The Secretary was nicknamed Senior Advocate Of Nigeria (SAN), which he rejected initially but later, having realized its worth, cherished it, and that made him aspired to become one, one day. But as fate would have it, his SAN aspiration was shattered: Bello was first admitted by the prestigious Bayero University Kano (BUK), for LLB, but his English deficiency in West African Examination Council (WAEC) rendered the admission void. The following year, he applied again for the same discipline and to the same varsity, but failed to get it, instead got B.A Linguistics.

He first decided to dump it, thus, registered again with Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) and subsequently sat for it, applying for the third time to the same BUK for the same Law. But now, unlike many students who were in his shoes, Bello decided to become content with the B.A Linguistics. In other words, the person became a happy student of the science of language, as he would have been if had successfully been given Law, in the ivory tower. Linguistics is now his main course, with Theatre and Performing Arts (TPA) and Hausa as his subsidiary and second main courses respectively. He is presently (2016) the Financial Secretay of BUK Linguistics Students' Asssociation (LINSA) and the Assistant Chairman, Writers' Forum of Muslims Student Society of Nigeria (MSSN) BUK Chapter.

The Linguist in the making is a writer and member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Kano Branch. He has published a pamphlet of poetry in 2012 entitled: 'An Ocean Of Thanks'. His works are read in radio stations, featured in newspapers, magazines, anthologies and on the Internet. The writer is a blogger, and patronises social networking sites. He is currently the Secretary General of Literature and the World: an Internet based group. The blogger was an English language teacher in some private schools in Kano State, which included WAMY International School, Hadejia Road Kano.

Bello is a one-time politician. In 2007, He was elected, with landslide, as the Publicity Secretary of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) (which at this time is one of the three merged political parties that call themselves All Progressive Congress ‘APC’. APC won the 2015 presedential election as well as 90% of other elections in Nigeria) of Tudun Murtala Ward, Nassarawa Local Government Kano State, which made him to be the youngest member of the Tudun Murtala ACN Executives, as well as the Local Government branch’s. The Publicity was popularly known by his comrades as ‘Bello SAN’.

During his political struggle, Bello came in touch with some frontline politicians. These included the former governor of Lagos State, under the platform of Alliance For Democrats (AD), Barr. Bola Ahmad Tinubu, the first Kano State Civilian Governor and former Nigerian presidential aspirant under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP): the late Dr. Muhammad Abubakar Rimi, Sen. Najaatu Bala Muhammad, former Sen. Kano Central under the platform of Democratic Party Of Nigeria (DPN), and a host of others.

When the 2007 Nigerian General Election was around the corner, and before ‘Bello SAN’ could settle in his new office, he unofficially resigned, and therefore, embarked on an ‘indefinite self suspension’ from politics.

Finally, Bello is a bibliophile, hence, has the ambition, though on the surface may seem ridiculous or unthinkable, to read all the books available on earth, with the sole aim of bringing an end to the problems of humanity.

(C) Bello Sagir Imam 2014.

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