Jos — His name has been everywhere and on every Nigerian's lips. His picture is all over the social media, yet nobody knows Captain Tijjani Balarabe's life before the Taraba saga that made him a focus of public attention and keeps him so for weeks on end. Daily Trust on Sunday has dug up everything about him - a civilian, recruit, soldier, an officer; his house, planned bakery business and more. Read on.
In the early 1990s, the dusty streets of Tudun Fera, one of the communities in Jos North Local Government, the heart of Jos in Plateau State, would have been the most tranquil in the city centre, but for an energetic first generation of secondary school leavers. Freshly out of school and ambitious, these boys cut a new, boisterous image for a neighbourhood that hitherto knew only the austere and modest lifestyle of the Islamic scholars that first settled there - their parents.
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