EDUCATION OF THE RISING SUN
By Tahir Ibrahim Tahir Talban Bauchi. We went on a trip a while back, to Jama'are local government in Bauchi state, for the turbaning ceremony of my cousin as the Ubandoman Jama'are. Jama'are is a 2 hr journey from the Bauchi metropolis. On our way there, we ran into one of the potholes and we got a twisted tyre. After our event, we proceeded to Azare, another local government in Bauchi which is a 30 minutes drive from Jama'are, with the hope that we would get a tyre to replace our damaged one. We were directed from one shop to the other, and each time we arrived at any of the shops, we met them all locked up. We got the puzzling explanation that one of the shop owners lost his father and that he and all his brothers had gone for the burial. Now what they meant was that all the shops were owned by Igbos and they were the only ones that sold the size of tyres that we were looking for. We had to manage the twisted tyre back to Bauchi because Chinedu's unc...