Born
Alhaji
DAMBATTA
Magaji
(OFR) Chairman, DAILY TIMES (NIG.) LIMITED, born in Dambatta Town, Kano State, Schools attended: Kano Middle School, Kano; School for Arabic Studies, Kano. London Sch ool of Journalism; Qualification: Dip loma in Journalism; Working Career: Produce Inspector, 1948-50; Hausa Editor, Daily Comet, Kano 1950-53; Reporter, Nigerian Citizen, Zaria 1953- 56; News Reporter, Nigerian Broad casting Service, (later Nig. Broadcast ing Corporation) 1956-58;'News Edi tor, NBC, 1958-60; North Regional Editor, NBC 1960-61 ; Transferred to Northern Government in 1961 as Senior Information Officer, Served in Northern Region Agent, General's Office in London from 1961-63; back home on promotion as Chief Infor mation Officer for Northern Govern ment from 1963-67; With creation of States deployed to Kano as first Permanent Secretary to the State Ministry of Education in 1967; trans ferred to Federal Ministry of Informa tion as Deputy Director of Informa tion in 1969; posted to the Nigerian High Commission in London to head Nigeria's Publicity, Public Relations and Cultural Department for Western Europe; Moved to Nigerian Embassy in Washington, DC. US a in 1973 as Minister responsible for Publicity, public Relations, etc., Returned to Nigeria in 1977; retired voluntarily from Civil Service in 1978 after 22 years service, now in private Business; Company Directorships; was Director on New Nigerian Newspapers; was director qnd later Chairman of Nor thern Nigerian Broadcasting Corpora tion (Radio/Television, Kaduna); for mer Chairman of Kano Broadcasting Corporation; now Chairman of the Daily Times of Nigeria; Chairman, Conveyancer (Nig.) Ltd., Chairman, Regency Paint Company Ltd., and Dambatta International Ltd., Publica tions: Newspaper publications and Radio Talks too numerous to mention; National Honours: Awarded Order of the Officer of the Federal Republic (OFR) 1982 in recognition of merito rious service to the nation; Married with five children.
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