Fond memories of Wazirin Fika, by Mahmud Jega I had been hearing about Alhaji Adamu Fika, Wazirin Fika, since at least the early 1980s, when he was a Federal Permanent Secretary in Lagos, partly because many Fika Emirate students were my friends and his daughter, Hajiya Larai, was two years behind me in school. I did not get to see him with my own eyes until 1991. I was a Principal Correspondent at Citizen magazine in Kaduna and there was some civil service reform issue during the Babangida regime. Our...