By Seriki Adinoyi
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has eulogised late former Director-General of National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Professor Habu Galadima, describing him as a man with calm impetus that brought fresh energy to the institute.
Osinbajo stated this through zoom at the inaugural memorial lecture in honour of Galadima at the institute last Saturday evening.
According to him, “Late Galadima had a deep intention about the need to reposition the institute as the foremost institute in the country. This reflected most vividly in his performance of his assignment as a director-general.”
He added that within the short period Galadima served, he built bridges of relationships of fellowships across all intellectual area, and initiated various reforms aimed at repositioning the institute to accomplish its mandate.
By Tunji Olaopa
These are indeed terrible times, the like of which most of us have never known. We are well into the trauma of the second wave of the pandemic, with the onslaught of a new variant of COVID-19 ravaging our lives and emotions. Many people have died already. And many more lives are on critical lists at various isolation centers across Nigeria. Many more are cowering in their homes, not knowing what to expect from a virus of whom not much is known. Just recently, there have been discussions about the rising Covid-related fatalities among eminent Nigerians, and especially among professors. This is not just a mere discourse for me. Many of those who have died are those I have had the privilege of knowing and relating with at deep intellectual levels. After trying to get over the untimely death of Professor Habu Galadima, the late director-general of NIPSS, for whom I had to engage in the emotionally traumatizing task of writing a tribute, the number of deaths that have fol
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Published 27 December 2020
Death is the ultimate of all the gloomy things to write about in life. It is the cessation of all possibilities. And this is why it always leaves a bitter taste in the memory, whether it is the death of a person in a distant place or a loved one close by. And when we lose dear and loved ones, there is no consolation to be found in Horace’s words that “Pale death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.” Nobody wants to write a eulogy of a friend, a colleague, a relative or any loved one. Having to pen this tribute to my boss, colleague, brother and friend Professor Habu Galadima is one of the most harrowing experiences I have ever gone through. How could we be talking of a eulogy to someone who was still with us a few days ago? How could I even make sense of speaking about him in the past tense?
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