Abubakar Abba Tahir

Director of Public Relations and Marketing

Educational Background:

B.Sc. Mass Communications, University of Maiduguri, Borno State

Abba is a young pragmatic and creative journalist whose professional experience traverses radio, television, public relations, media management and newspaper journalism. He has received two distinguished awards - University of Maiduguri Distinguished Alumnus Award and the Distinguished Public Service Award, Institute of Corporate Executives of Nigeria, Kaduna. He has been involved in major assignments; among them are the coverage of the 27th Summit of the Organization of African Unity for Voice of Nigeria in June 1991 and live anchorage of the monthly Presidential Media Chat with President Obasanjo in April 2001.

Previous Posts:

Head, Foreign Affairs Desk, Voice of Nigeria
General Manager, Adamawa Broadcasting Corporation, Yola
Information Officer, National Directorate of Social Mobilization

Selected Publications:

News Magazines and National Integration in Nigeria: A critical Analysis of Hotline Magazine, July 1989
Impact of Dialectal Variations on Broadcast Reception from Voice of Nigeria, March 1996
The Concept of News: Values, Sources, Reporting, Writing and Editing, 1997

Research Interests :

Public Relations
Broadcast Reporting

Selected Affiliations:

The Pastoral Resolve (PARE)
Nigeria Union of Journalists.

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