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Dr
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Yima
Dr. Yima Sen is a leading Nigerian intellectual and radical activist, he was a senior academic at Baze University, Abuja where he taught Mass Communications.Dr. Yima Sen who hails from Benue State studied Mass Communications at the University of Lagos, University of California in Los Angeles, United States of America and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
In the Second Republic, he was a Communications Assistant to the late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo when the later was Special Adviser on Political Affairs to the equally late President Shehu Shagari. Dr. Sen moved to that position from Benue State where he was briefly a Director of Information in the Aper Aku administration also in the Second Republic.
He was a moving force behind the conception and operationalisation of the National Conference strategy in the resistance to military rule in the late 1980 and early 1990s. Part of his radical involvement then included membership of the Women In Nigeria, (WIN) platform. In the June 12 crisis, he was heavily involved in the Campaign for Democracy, (CD) and the Democratic Alternative.
In the Fourth Republic, he worked as an aide to the Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, from where he returned to academia. Never dogmatic but taking a contingent approach to politics, he found himself in the Northern Elders Forum, (NEF) too where he was the Secretary and its leading ideologue and activist.
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Benue State
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Baze University, Abuja
University of Lagos, University of California in Los Angeles, United States of America and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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October 6th, 2020
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