BUK Alumni: Kano chapter to hold fund-raising dinner Dec

By Maryam Garba Hassan

The newly elected leadership of Bayero University Kano (BUK) alumni, Kano Chapter, has disclosed that the association has concluded arrangements to hold its fund-raising dinner by December this year.

The planned fund-raising dinner was disclosed yesterday in Abuja by members of the association led by its Vice Chairman, Hajiya Amina B.B. Farouk, when the exco paid a courtesy call to the head office of Peoples Media Limited, publishers of Peoples Daily and Peoples Daily Weekend in Abuja.

The team said the idea to have the association chapters was brought up at a meeting it held this year.

According to it, the association’s top most priority is membership drive and to give face to the association by securing an office for it to run its affairs and have its own press.

It said, it intends to contact successful alumni in power and in top positions at government and private organisations to convince them to join the association.

It said, it second priority was what it described as ‘social responsibility’ such as; renovation of structures in the university and tackling some of the challenges facing the University as a way of giving back to the school what it had given them.

She said part of the associations’ plan was to revive activities on campus that add value to Nigeria’s culture that were functional in the hay days of the university.

Also speaking, Public Relations Officer of the association, AbdulAziz AbdulAziz, said prominent alumni had been identified and would be visited by the leadership of the association soon to seek for their moral guidance.

Responding, the Chief Operating Officer of Peoples Media Limited, Malam Ali .M. Ali, who congratulated the new Exco for emerging winners at the election that brought them to office, commended them for sacrificing their time to revive the alma meter.

He said with the combination of members of the association, comprising of experienced young vibrant, middle-aged and elderly members, he has no doubt that the members would do their best and give their best to the university.