B.Sc, MA, journalist, born December 2, 1952, Kano, Kano State; mar ried Muhammad Sanusi Yusuf 1977, oneson, one daughter; Education: Ansar Primary School, Kano, 1958-64. Government Girls' College, Dala, Kano, 1965-69, Government Girls' College, Kano, 1970-71, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1972-75, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 1980-81, Mos cow Institute of Journalism, 1986-87; Ca reer: Appointed Assistant Information Of ficer/Information Officer, Ministry of Information. Kano. 1976-78: Producer. Programmes Division, Radio Kano, 1978-79; Deputy Assistant Editor (Foreign Desk), Tri umph Publishing, Kano, 1981; Secretary. Land Use and Allocation Committee, Kano State, 1982-83; Editor, Sunday Triumph. 1983-87; appointed Editor. New Nigerian Newspapers, 1987-90; Editor, Citizen Com munications, since 1990;Kano State Repre sentative, Women in Nigeria (WIN), 1982- 87; Public Relations Officer, Federation of Muslim Women's Association ofNigeria (FOMWAN), since 1985; member, Kano State Amateur Basketball Association, since 1985; member, National Committee on Women and Development, since 1986; mem ber, Kano Seminar Bureau, College of Edu cation, Kano, 1986; member, Governing Council, Federal Road Safety Corps. 1988: Consultant, Mac Arthur Foundation, 1994; Gender Trainer, ABANTU For Develop ment; Fellow, Nigerian Guild of Editors, 1998; National Honour: Conferred with Member, Order of the Federal Republic 1987; recipient, Award ofExcellence by Ni gerian Association of Women Journalists, 1992; Publications: "Inconsistency in Nige ria Foreign Policy" in Towards a Progres sive Nigeria, edited by Asikpo Essien Ibok Triumph Publishing Company, Kano, 1983; "Women in Politics" in Women in Nigeria Today. Zed Press, London, 1985; "Mass Media in Politics" in Politics of the Second Republic, edited by T.l. Imobighe, NIPSS, Kuru, 1987; The Political Future ofNige ria, Ahmadu Bello University Press, Zaria, 1988; The Muslim Woman, MSO, 1988; Hobbies: reading, travelling, debates; Offi cial Address: Citizens Communications. PMB 2334. 4, Sultan Road, GRA Kaduna, Kaduna State;Telephone: 062-230165.
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