JUST IN: Former APRA Secretary General, Kabir Dangogo, is Dead
Mallam Kabir Dangogo, an award-winning PR Practitioner and a former Scribe of the African Public Relations Association (APRA), is dead.
He passed away early today.
Mallam Dangogo, a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relation (NIPR), was 76.
The deceased practiced journalism at the New Nigerian newspaper, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), and as Public Relations officer at the Bank of the North Limited and Union Bank of Nigeria Plc.
He was also the founding president of the Association of Corporate Affairs Managers of Banks (ACAMB).
Mallam Dangogo made Nigeria proud as the Secretary General of the Federation of African Public Relations Associations (FAPRA) from 2002 to 2006.
*His Biography*
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Born on February 21, 1949, Mallam Kabiru Dangogo schooled and bagged different academic degrees from both Ohio University, Athens, United States in 1981, and University of Leicester, United Kingdom (UK) in 1987. He was the Managing Editor of New Nigerian Newspaper between 1988 and 1989. He was once a Senior Lecturer at Kaduna Polytechnic (KADPOLY) in the late 80s; and then became the Press Adviser, for the United States Information Service in 1990.
After 32 years of working for various corporate organizations, Dangogo voluntarily retired at Union Bank on June 26, 2005, as the Assistant General Manager (AGM) Corporate Affairs.
He was a member of several professional bodies across the globe. In 1981, he was elected a Fellow of the International Radio and Television Society (IRTS) New York. He was the founding President of the Association of Corporate Affairs Managers of Banks (ACAMB) between 1986 and 1988.
In 1996, he received the NIPR President’s Award for Excellence in Public Relations; and became a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) in 2000; a Fellow of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) in 2005. He also received the Lagos State Chapter of the NIPR Award for Excellence in Public Relations in 2005, among others.
The NIPR Fellow was also a one-time Secretary-General of the African Public Relations Association (APRA) from 2002 to 2006, while also being the Chairman, Nigeria Chapter of the International Public Relations Associations (IPRA) between 2002 and 2006.
By PRNigeria
