{"id":10108,"date":"2017-02-08T16:52:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T15:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10108"},"modified":"2017-12-05T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T11:11:15","slug":"dambatta-alhaji-magaji","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/dambatta-alhaji-magaji\/","title":{"rendered":"DAMBATTA, Alhaji Magaji"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> (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;&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[484],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10108","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-public-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23033,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10108\/revisions\/23033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10108"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}