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JUST-IN: Veteran Journalist, Abdulhamid Babatunde, Is Dead

by Bode Gbadebo
3 years ago
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The Late Mallam Abdulhamid Babatunde Agaka

The Late Mallam Abdulhamid Babatunde Agaka

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A veteran journalist and media consultant, Mallam Abdulhamid Babatunde Agaka, is dead.

According to a news dissemination platform, PRNigeria, the seasoned journalist, who had lost his wife last month, died in his sleep on Wednesday night at his Kaduna residence.

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Born on February 26, 1956, Malam Babatunde Agaka attended Capital School Kaduna, before proceeding to Barewa College Zaria, all in Kaduna State and Government Secondary School Ilorin, Kwara State.

With passion for journalism, he joined the service of the New Nigerian, the pioneer Northern newspaper based in Kaduna, in 1974.

The illustrious journalist later joined the now defunct Democrat Newspaper as an Editor in 1988 till 1997 when he went into media consultancy.

Mal. Babatunde Agaka, who attended several media trainings, workshops and conferences at home and abroad, was an alumnus of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Lagos.

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It was gathered that the veteran journalist also held executive positions in the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), where he was a Fellow.

Mal. Babatunde Agaka, who was once the Secretary of the Jokolo Committee set up by then President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999, is survived by four children: Ahmad, Maryam, Halima and Abdulhamid (Jnr).

He is also survived by other siblings including Mallam Ismail Ila Agaka, a former Managing Director of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) and Ilyasu Baba Agaka, a Director at the Presidency, among others.


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