By President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of the Director General of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Professor Habu Shuiabu Galadima.
This was contained in a statement on Sunday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu. The President described the late NIPSS director general as an intellectual colossus who stood tall in the field of scholarship and knowledge.
“Galadima was an eloquent and remarkable intellectual whose contributions to scholarship were vast and remarkable, and Nigeria will continue to remember him for these contributions,” Buhari said.
In the same vein, Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong, in a statement, described Galadima’s death as great loss to his immediate family, NIPSS, Plateau and Nasarawa states, the nation’s academic community and the entire country.
The governor said, “He also did a lot to improve the physical infrastructure of the institution while strengthening the academic experience for all course participants. He will be greatly missed.”
