Tersoo Kula: Benue is blessed in the hands of priests

Tuesday, October 13, 2026
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‎Benue State, since its instauration implicit 50 years ago, has produced 2 Catholic priests arsenic governors. The archetypal was the precocious Rev. Fr. Moses Orshio Adasu. He was Benue’s 2nd civilian governor. He assumed bureau successful January 1992, and hardly 18 months into his tenure, he, similar different governors crossed the country, was forcefully removed pursuing the subject takeover of November 1993.
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‎Despite his little enactment successful office, his medication near lasting legacies. These see the constitution of the archetypal authorities owned assemblage successful Nigeria’s North, the Benue State University. He went connected to found the College of Education, Oju; founded the J. S. Tarka Foundation; and pursued industrialisation, including the constitution of BENCO Roof Tiles Company astatine Abinsi successful 1992, alongside galore different projects that were underway.
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‎His top enduring legacies stay the assemblage and the College of Education. It is truthful not a specified jamboree that the assemblage was subsequently renamed Father Adasu University, Makurdi.
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‎This instauration has continued to signifier the state’s acquisition scenery decades aft his demise, producing nary less than 50,000 graduates, galore of whom are contributing immensely to federation gathering and starring successful their ...