President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the Director-General/CEO of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, Prof Habu Shuaibu Galadima NIPSS, Galadima, describing him as an intellectual colossus who stood tall in the field of scholarship and knowledge.
Buhari in a statement by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, commiserated with Galadima’s family and friends, the government and people of Nasarawa State.
“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.
“With the death of Galadima, NIPPS and Nigeria at large have lost one of the best DGs ever appointed to head the institute.”
The late Professor Galadima took over as director-general of the institute about a year ago and just last week, he presided over the graduation ceremony of senior executive course 42 at the institute premises
