By Adamu Aminu.
With acknowledgment to an adage that affirmed that old age is a sign of mental maturity.
But, due to an exception in every generality, some people in their youthful exuberance are lucky to have a sound mental capacity before reaching old age.
Youth endowed with these traits are usually noted by casual observers or close associates in their working environment or within their family domain.
Unknowingly, these types of youth weren’t aware of being blessed with this capacity.
Interestingly, among the youth who are typified and adjudged to be fit in the aforementioned row is Abubakar Sale Yakub, a Kano-based radio journalist serving with Express 90.3 FM.
Born and well bred in Kano City, Abubakar Yakoub hails from a genteel family that upholds religiosity, cultural values, and propriety as guiding principles of his family’s core upbringing.
Undoubtedly, his courtesy and well-mannered socialization with colleagues show that Abubakar Sale Yakoub is figuratively an embodiment of his family’s reputable identity.
Delving into the world of radio journalism, Abubakar Sale Yakoub, for close to a decade, was among the pioneering staff members of Express FM.
He was employed with the sole intent of earning a livelihood while having no inkling that he is among the rare breed with full potential that the Kano domain of radio journalism is beckoning for.
Abubakar Sale Yakoub has now become a versatile broadcaster—a news editor, presenter, and program producer gifted with an instinctive sense of creativity.
The news editor, who maintains the rules of factuality, balance, and objectivity during his news editing duties,
An editor who, through his training and exposure, puts fact-based news and human-interest stories at the top of his official priority list.
The program producer, who always maintained the status quo of orthography in script-writing techniques
The presenter, whose clear voice resonance produces an aural tapestry in the air of his teeming listeners,
Abubakar Sale Yakoub is undoubtedly a young radio journalist whose hard work and commitment are attached to a promising future.
He made it to the podium with an excellent program presentation, not on a platter of gold, but by being committed and uncompromising in the quality of his package to earn the confidence of his listeners.
Apart from news reading, Sale Yakoub is professionally known for having an appetite for human-interest news reports and programs.
That’s why “Duniya Tumbin Giwa,” a weekday flagship program, becomes an avenue to showcase his mastery of program presentation.
Abubakar Sale Yakoub is an acclaimed producer and presenter of an annual pilgrimage to the Holy Land program titled Hajji Nufin Allah.
The efforts, which were long noticed and at last divinely rewarded by attending the 2021 pilgrimage to the holy land of Mecca,
by virtue of his long-acquired experience through social interaction with people spanning various life endeavors.
Yakoub has come a long way, threading along his chosen path, aiming to reach the pinnacle of excellence in radio journalism.
Apart from being a newsman, with his acumen, gentility, and magnetic charm, he looks poised for a young man who is fit to be entrusted with a post of decision-making at any establishment.
Abubakar Sale is a sociable and personable newsman, an open-minded person who stands to be corrected in the course of making personal mistakes.
But his simplicity doesn’t succumb to an open-ended stupidity by those who take advantage of one’s simplessness to mock him.
He is a husband to his wife and a father to a lone child.
Abubakar Sale Yakoub is a shutterbug and photo enthusiast with hobbies that include reading history books, watching Indian movies, and listening to music.
GASKIYATA 
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