NGE Deputy President Dies in Kano Road Crash


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Former Managing Director of Kano State Radio Corporation and also Deputy President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Malam Umar Saidu Tudunwada, is dead.

He died on Sunday in a road accident at Kura town in Kura Local Government Area of the state.

Tudunwada was on his way back to Kano from Abuja where he attended Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) meeting when he met his end.

He was on the vehicle with one of his wives; a daughter and the driver when the accident occurred 30kilometre away from Kano metropolis.

The former deputy president of NGE was a media aide of former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, twice and a former Assistant General Manager with Freedom Radio Group.

In 2006, he joined the Voice of America (VOA) Hausa Service where he became an international broadcaster translating daily news bulletins from English to Hausa; translating correspondents’ reports from English to Hausa.

He returned to Freedom Radio in 2009 upon his appointment as the general manager operations and editor-in-chief in order to have a good and fair editorial judgment in news and current affairs department of the radio station.

Tudunwada cut his journalistic teeth with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) as a news assistant in 1980; and in 1983, he left to join the Kano State Television Corporation better known as CTV 67 as a reporter/editor where he worked for close to two decades.

He was at one time a correspondent for Deutsche-Welle (Voice of Germany) Hausa Service compiling and presenting Hausa reports.

It was also learnt that other occupants of the vehicle are at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital receiving treatment.

Tudunwada was buried in Kano amid tears from colleagues and families.


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