Nigeria, May 11 -- In my second year at the University of Ife in 1979, two students from the Federal Government College, Kano joined the Faculty of Arts. Awam Ampah and Funso Alabi fitted in perfectly. I was so impressed that when I went for youth service in Kano, one of the first places I familiarized myself with was the school, along Zaria road. You may understand the sadness I felt when I learnt that the Tinubu administration wants to auction 33 hectares or forty percent of the school lands to a Pluck Global Construction Company for commercial purposes. The Government claims its prodigal moves are to provide funds for upgrading infrastructure within the institution. If this were a rational and sensible reasoning, then virtually all fe...