Mukhtar Maigamo has this to say on MRCP (REFRESHER): He is the former Special Assistant to the Governor of Kaduna State on Public Affairs.
Published on my Facebook wall: November 8, 2019
I don’t know how Muslim Refresher Course Program (MRCP) fares now, and I doubt much if it still commands that respect it used to rein, or has that quality we all knew it with; or if at all Zaria people patronize the program well now.
MRCP used to be an important and strongest educational centre that served as the gateway for students who wanted to study at ABU Zaria. At the prime of its time MRCP used to be a mini institution that served as a training ground for students who are preparing to write WAEC, and an omnibus for transporting students to ABU Zaria.
I happened to be a student there while I was in SS1, the period in which getting good WAEC and JAMB result was something of a Holy Grail, but I still remember the quality of resource persons that were there sacrificing their time just to see that students got adequate preparation for JAMB and subsequent admission into ABU Zaria. I dont know if still MRCP continues with this or if it has maintain the quality of the manpower.
On a lighter note, but seriously Dr. Salihu Lukman just demystified himself with this piece to some of us who for so many years held the belief that he’s an exceptional genuis.
I was about to enter JSS1 GSS (Government Day Zaria) when the story broke out in Zaria about the Dr Salihu Lukman’s WAEC result which was suffused with flat As, a feat never achieved in Zaria by no one as at then, and when WAEC was WAEC. I remember how he celebrated all over Zaria and how his result sparked widespread public interest to the extent that the Emir of Zazzau made pledges to him about his educational advancement. That was how Dr Salihu (Khalifa) continued to mystified us with his exceptional perfomance in ABU Zaria.
Until I read this post, I never knew the rocky steps he’d passed through. Thought that he had an easy sail, being congenital genuis. Never imagined that he started off from dismal academic performance to the exceptionally brilliant one.
We must commend the pioneers of MRCP for the unrequited sacrifice they made through the years.
