Deputy Senate President Barau Jibril has assured Nigerians that there is light at the end of the tunnel despite the challenges being experienced today.
However, he called on Nigerians to rally around President Bola Tinubu to resolve the current challenges being faced in the country, saying, “It is the practice across the world that, wherever there is a general challenge in a country people come together to contribute towards resolving it irrespective of their individual inclinations and differences.”
He added, “The president loves us, he loves our region and is doing his best to ensure development here. We should support him to ensure we get the best we deserve.”
Senator Barau stated this while flagging off the distribution of admission letters to 70 students sponsored by the Barau Jibrin Foundation on Monday in Kano.
The students, 65 males and 5 females, will study masters in artificial intelligence, cyber security, machine learning, and forensic sciences in the United States, Europe, Canada and India.
Delivering his address at the event, Barau said the foundation is building and empowering youths to meet the current global challenges, adding that this has nothing to do with politics but to make life better for them.
“That is why we identified talented youths with first-class and second-class upper in their undergraduate degrees. They were selected based on qualifications to sponsor them to study in those fields.
“These 70 students, none of whom I know personally, were the only ones eligible based on their qualifications. If there were more, they would have been sponsored along with them, but they are the only ones qualified.
“To the beneficiaries, I call on you to make the best use of this opportunity to make us proud,” he stated.
In his address, the minister of education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, represented by the state minister for education, Yusuf Zununu, advised the beneficiaries to make good use of their opportunity and ensure they pay back to the coming generations.
Personally calling on politicians to emulate the deputy senate president, the State Minister for Education also called on Sen Barau to endeavour to blow his trumpet by letting the world know what he has been doing all these years, as he has never seen anyone so committed to serving the people like him.
“I wish to personally call on the deputy senate president to provide more information on his contribution to the public. You need to blow your trumpet to let Nigerians know all the good things you are doing. I was filled with awe when I learnt some of these things today,” he stated.
