Gab FAGBURE,

Journalist, Educationist

journalist,, educatio nist, former Commissioner for Home Affairs and Information, old Western State; Born: October 24, 1924, at Oluponna in Iwo Local Government ar ea, Oyo State; Education: Baptist Sc hool, Oluponna; Baptist School, Iwo; Baptist College, Iwo, 1939-43, Regent Street Polytechnic, London, 1954-55; obtained Teachers' Higher Elementary Certificate in 1943, Teachers' Senior Certificate in Geography in 1946; Loni don Matriculation in 1947 and Diplo ma in Journalism in 1955, was head master. Baptist School, Mopa near Kabba, 1944-46; headmaster. Baptist Sc hool, Igede-Ekiti, 1946-47 career jou rnalist since 1947 - sub-editor. Western Echo, Ibadan, 1947-48; sub-editor. New Times of Nigeria, Ibadan, 1948- 49; was editor. Western Echo and assis tant editor, West African Pilot, 1950- 53; became managing director. South ern Nigeria Defender, Ibadan, 1953- 54; editor. West African Pilot, 1956-57 principal information officer, Nigeria High Commission, London, 1957-60, information attache, Nigeria High Co mmission, London, 1960-63; correspondent, Financial Times, 1963-70, correspondent. Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, 1964-71; freelance journalist and…