‘Special Room’ Archives

D S Ibrahim Collapses Identity Fault Lines As Christians, Muslims, Others Converge @ His Burial in Zaria

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Christians, Danlami Samuel, Kano, Kano State Pension Board, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano State Scholarship Board, Muslims, Old North, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Zaria, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

Identity boundaries and fault lines collapsed temporarily earlier today as Nigeria lowered a barrier breaking elder. Christians, Muslims and others travelled to bear witness to the burial of... Read more

D. S. Ibrahim To Be Buried in Zaria Saturday, May 31st, 2025

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Anglican Communion, Dan Masanin, Danlami Samuel, Kano State Pension Board, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano State Scholarship Board, Old North, St Bartholomew Cathedral, Wusasa, Zaria, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

Mallam Danlami Samuel (D. S) Ibrahim, the Dan masanin Wusasa, is to be buried Saturday, May 31st, 2025. He died last Friday, May 23rd, 2025. Family announcement to that effect indicated that... Read more

D. S. Ibrahim, Danmasanin Wusasa, Dies @ 87

Posted By: adminon: May 25, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Danlami Samuel, Kano State Pension Board, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano State Scholarship Board, Old North, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

A former Rector of the Kano State Polytechnic, former Executive Secretary of the Kano State Scholarship Board and the Kano State Pension Board is dead. He is Mallam D. S. Ibrahim. A family s... Read more

The North, Marxism and ‘Jibo Must Pay’ On Our Minds at the Joyous Night for D. S. Ibrahim @ 85

Posted By: adminon: December 23, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Algerian War of Independence, Danlami Samuel, France, Marxism, Old North, Post-positivism, Social theory, The Communist Manifesto, ‘Jibo Must Pay’, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

It was a joyous but also painful evening. Joyous because junior brothers, grandchildren, in-laws and friends of the family gathered to celebrate a remarkable individual at 85. Painful becaus... Read more