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NTAC DG Applauds APC’S Comrade Salihu On Academic Attainment, Leadership Excellence
…Describes the Ruling Party’s Zonal Leader as “Source of Inspiration to Nigerian Youth”
Director General of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps,Rt.Hon.Yusuf Buba Yakub,has described Comrade Mustapha Salihu,who is the Northeast Zonal Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), as a man of deep intellect and great wisdom,virtues, he says, are beneficial to both Adamawa State and Nigeria at large.
The NTAC boss ,who lauded Comrade Salihu’s zeal for continuous academic laurels, following his recent call to the Nigerian Bar at the Law School in Bwari,stated the above today in a congratulatory message he personally signed and sent to the Zonal Party Leader in Abuja. Buba added that the Party Leader’s lifestyle filled with a constant quest for academic laurels,was to make leadership better and to inspire many Nigerian youth to acquire the kind of education that would perpetually liberate the nation from poverty.
Part of the message reads:
“I feel most excited to rejoice with you,members of your family,our Senatorial Zone and indeed,the good and great people of our State,Adamawa,for the laudable completion of your Law Degree programme and your participation in the well-deserved Call-to-Bar exercise.
“Indeed,the addition of this newest academic feather to your cap is nothing short of a quality icing on the cake of a brilliant academic sojourn spanning many years already replete with outstanding laurels in diverse fields of learning and professionalism.
“While I acknowledge how much you have laboured to pursue and acquire knowledge in diverse fields of learning, including Politics and Leadership these past years,I am reminded that, in a nation like ours,where academic laurels are, unfortunately,currently being pushed to the back burners of our social life in favour of the quest for material lucre,our youth need people like you as veritable sources of inspiration to attain the quality of academic heights every society truly aspires to have in order to entrench the kind of generational wealth that defeats poverty perpetually.
“I, therefore,congratulate you as an inspiring beacon of academic excellence,a complete leadership figure and a man of outstanding wisdom and letters, as in the time of old,who will no doubt continue to point out to our nation’s youth the way to go.Surely,we will find a day as brothers, friends, colleagues and well-wishers to celebrate the tangible footprint you have left on the turf of academics globally.
“For myself and my family,and on behalf of the Management and staff of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps,which by the grace of God and the kind magnanimity of our dear President I currently head,I convey to you,Leader and our own very dear Comrade,our enormous congratulations on this new achievement”,the piece concludes.
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Tin City Warms Up for President Tinubu as North Central Embraces Renewed Hope
By Sunday Dare
When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu berths on the plains and rolling hills that dominate the Jos landscape tomorrow, he will meet a people resourceful, friendly and resilient but weighed down by conflict, yet unbowed by adversity.
So, tommorrow, national attention turns to the Plateau- a locale laden with history and rich with potential. From the tin mines that gave the city of Jos its name, to the Irish potato, strawberry farms and beetroot plantations that dot its landscape, Jos remains a land of promise—truly the Home of Peace and Tourism.
Jos is also deeply woven into Nigeria’s political history. Plateau is home to towering figures such as Generals JD Gomwalk, Yakubu Gowon, John Shagaya, Joshua Dogoyaro, and Jerry Useni. Solomon Lar, Senator Ibrahim Mantu and numerous others also stand tall in the annals Plateau political history.
Jos was also the rallying ground of the famed Langtang Mafia—a group of influential military officers from Langtang in Plateau State who, at the height of their power, played a significant role in Nigeria’s political and military affairs.
The story of Jos is both exciting and excruciating. The city lost its innocence some two and a half decades ago, when the popular Terminus Market was reduced to rubble through acts of arson and looting.
Thus at the turn of the millennium by 2001, Jos—and by extension, Plateau—was thrown into a cycle of unending conflict. Ethnic tensions, clothed in religious garb, tore through the city and spread across the state, dragging Jos into an abyss of violence, almost of Kigali proportions. Peace gave way to war, and tourism jaunts became undertakings to the undertaker.
Yet Jos has never surrendered. Every time it is written off, it rises again—scarred, but resilient. With its multi-ethnic, multi-religious fabric, the Plateau continues to trudge on in pursuit of peace, development, and egalitarian ideals.
It was here, in Jos, that Nigeria’s democratic resurgence was birthed. The historic SDP convention, where late General Shehu Yar’Adua and Chief Moshood Abiola held sway, took place in this city. Jos gave political life to Abiola, our hero of democracy in 1992
Now, thirty three years later, another hero of democracy and of the June 12 struggle returns to the Plateau. President Tinubu’s return and visit to Plateau State is not just to honor the transition to glory of Nana Lydia Yilwatda, the mother of the APC National Chairman.
It is a visit that carries deeper meaning—one of empathy, solidarity, and renewed hope for a people who have endured decades of turmoil. It is a mission to preach peace, console the bereaved, bind wounds, and assure Plateau of its central place in the Nigerian project.
Mr President comes not just to mourn, but to reconnect. He comes to parley with the North Central, to commiserate with a people who have suffered, and to extend the hand of renewed hope. That Renewed Hope is laying a solid foundation as evidenced by Naira at N1,455 per dollar, rising Foreign Reserves at $43bn, Trade surplus heading for N25tr. Revenues up 411% and Inflation down to about 20 per cent. Over 600,000 students benefiting from NELFUND.
This visit is more than ceremonial. It is a journey into the very soul of a people who have known pain, yet remain resilient; a land scarred by conflict, yet still brimming with hope and promise. As the Tin City opens its arms, Jos will not just receive the President—it will receive a message of solidarity, healing, and renewal.
Tomorrow is about remembering the glorious past, confronting the present, and charting a path to a peaceful and prosperous Plateau within a united Nigeria. With President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, Jos once again stands at the intersection of history and destiny.
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