It was a day set aside for the distribution of resources for the free education policy in the state as well as the unveiling of 10,000 copies of Teen Trust, a Media Trust Ltd publication, to help improve schoolchildren’s reading culture in the state.
The paper, first published in 2016 according to the publisher, is to encourage literacy among students and teenagers; to make the students become efficient writers as well as develop a proper reading habit.
“We have entered into an agreement with Daily Trust for the production of this newspaper, Teen Trust, to inform, educate and entertain our school children; so that they can develop their reading culture,” the state governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje declared to the crowd.
Family sources said he had been on admission in Egypt for over a month. His younger brother, Saminu Garba, said the family was making arrangements for the return of his corpse to Nigeria for burial.
Born on June 21, 1957, the Late Garba was the chairman of Media Trust Limited’s board committee on editorial and production until late last year when he moved to the contact and business committee.
Garba had, three years ago at the 20th anniversary of Media Trust Ltd, narrated how the
Daily Trust, then Weekly Trust, started in a small building which he described as his house “boys quarters”.