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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