Biography of lema jibrini

Alhaji Lema Jibrilu is the Dan Iyan Katsina. In this interview, the Katsina-born successful businessman, industrialist and politician reminisced on his life and experiences, as well as the problems with Nigeria.

You look like somebody who could be from Mauritania or Western Sahara.

Are you from Nigeria?

Your complexion is almost the same as mine, there’s very little difference, if any. My mother was Fulani and my father from Maiduguri.

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You attended the elite schools of those days: Katsina College, and I think later on, Barewa College; what was the experience like to be in those schools?

Alhamdulillah, I really didn’t think any different; I didn’t know they were elite colleges.

It was only later that I discovered, like you said, that they were top schools. Katsina College was the oldest in Northern Nigeria.

Incidentally, my father was the first teacher at Katsina College. He went to Gidan Dan Hausa School in Kano in 1908, and when he finished he came and