B.sc, Ms.c; Eminent Journalist, Renowned Political Columnist, Administrator. b: September 22, 1951 in Ibadan, Oyo State; ht: Bida; Iga: Bida; so: Niger, m: Married; nc: three s,two d; ed:Tudun Wada Primary School, Kano, 1957- 60; Kuka Primary School, Kano, 1961-64; Government College, Bida, 1965- 69; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1971-75; Glasgow College of Technology, Glasgow, 1979-80; Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York,1983-84; Harvard Business School, Boston, 1995; Career: Editorial Executive, New Nigerian Newspapers, 1976-79; Political Correspondent, New Nigerian, 1980-81; MD, New Nigerian, 1985-89; MD/Editor-in-Chief, Citizen Communications Limited, since 1990; Chief Press Secretary, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, October 1998 and May 1999; Senior Lecturer, Mass Communications Department, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 2008 and 2014. mm: Nigerian Union of Journalists; Nigerian Guild of Editors; Fellow, Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria; Board Member, News Agency of Nigeria, since 2009; Fellow, African Center for Democratic Governance; Director, Board, African Petroleum, now Forte Oil; Director, Board, National Oil Company, now CONOIL; Member, Technical Committee on Privatization and Commercialization (TCPC) of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Member, Vision 2010 committee; Member, Vision 2020 committee; Board Member, the People’s Bank. hob: reading; music; off:Citizen Communications Ltd., 4, Sultan Road, P.M.B. 2334, Kaduna; res: 2,Nsakada Road, Malali GRA Kaduna; pha: B8,Nupe Road, Kaduna; tel: 062-240929.
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