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Mr. Sunday Akin Dare is the Executive Commissioner (Stakeholder Management) of the Nigerian Communications Commission.

Until his appointment, he was the Convener of the Social Media Clinic (SMC), a Media/Information Technology (New Media) initiative committed to educating private citizens on IT development and also in the use of telecommunication as an information tool and creating awareness on how to responsibly use the platform provided by advancements in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). He combined this role with being the Chief of Staff / Special Adviser (Media) to former Lagos State Governor, Ahmed Bola Tinubu.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (BSc.) in International Studies from Ahmadu Bello University in 1991. He then proceeded to obtain a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the University of Jos. He was a Freedom Forum Fellow and Visiting Scholar, School of Journalism - New York University (NYU) in 1998. He later proceeded to Harvard University under the prestigious Harvard Nieman Journalism Fellowship between 2000 and 2001 where he studied Media and Public Policy.

In 2011 he won the Reuters Foundation Journalism Research Fellowship, University of Oxford, UK where he researched "New Media and Citizen Journalism in Africa – A Case Study: Using New Media Tools and Citizen Journalism to Investigate Corruption in Nigeria."

Mr. Dare has decades of multimedia journalism experience spanning about 25 years (1991 and 2016) when he was nominated as Executive Commissioner.

He was the Chief, Hausa Service, African Division, Voice of America (VOA) in Washington, DC from 2001 to 2009, where, apart from directing the production of radio and online broadcast news and programs daily, he designed and implemented the adoption of new IT and Telecoms tools for international radio news-gathering and information dissemination to boost audience size and expand reach. He supervised the work of eleven (11) International Radio Broadcast Journalists based in Washington DC alongside 24 reporters/stringers based in West Africa for VOA.

He was a founding member of the Nigerian weekly magazines The News and Tempo in the heady days of the military, where he served as Editor, Tempo magazine and pioneer Online Editor/General.

He had been reporter/columnist with several international publications such as The Nation magazine in New York and a production editor/writer with the European funded Fourth Estate magazine during the struggle against military dictatorship in Nigeria.

In 2009, he became Senior Special Assistant (Media) / Chief of Staff to the Minister of Information and Communications during which he guided decisions on all media and communications related matters, government information dissemination and media policies under the purview of the Ministry. He was at this time assigned to oversee aspects of the operations of the NCC and brief the Minister of Information and Communications on issues, challenges and opportunities in Nigeria's emerging telecommunications market. He also participated in strategic meetings between the office of the Minister, Information and Communications and the NCC leadership at that time, including being a member of the Minister's advisory team on the sale of the 2.3GHz spectrum frequency.

Mr. Dare is a recipient of many awards and has been recognized internationally, including being identified as one of the 50 Leading Nigerians in North America 2010 in commemoration of Nigeria's 50th Anniversary. He also won the Voice of America Meritorious Honor Award 2009 in recognition of his skillful leadership and outstanding performance; and he also bagged a Committee to Protect Journalists Citation in 2000 by the New York based organization in acknowledgement of his courage as a journalist.

His published works include; Making A Killing - The Business of War (Public Integrity Books, Washington DC - March 2003), which won the Sigma Delta Chi International investigative award; Guerrilla Journalism: Dispatches From The Underground (Xlibris Corporation, USA. - March 2007); We Are All Journalists - Africa In The Age Of Social Media (Oxford University Press, UK - 2011) the product of Mr. Dare's research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University; and Datelines - A Journalists' Narrative (May 2016). Ongoing works include; Butting Heads - Traditional Media Versus Social Media - Who Blinks First and Marriage that Works - The Convergence of Telecoms & ICT.

He is a member and associate of several professional bodies including the US based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) the Investigative Workshop, American University and a former Knight Fellow, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), Washington DC.

Source: https://www.ncc.gov.ng/about-ncc/commissioners/124-executive-commissioner-mr-sunday-akin-dare

lalasticlala food is ready...Adelabu and Ajimobi didnt make the list

cc: uboma

congrat to him. Shittu was clueless, while Ajimobi is too arrogant.

ABU representing

Yokulu yokolu....... Ajimobi Adelabu Join me dancing here.. hoooobiiiii ...

AKALA HAS HIS VOICE....

GOD BLESS OGBOMOSHO
NIGERIA

it's obvious he will take over from Shittu in the same ministry

aanuoluwami14:
Yokulu yokolu....... Ajimobi Adelabu Join me dancing here.. hoooobiiiii ...

U must be a Tinubu boy in the south west b4 u can amount to anything in Buhari govt. We will soon start worshipping Tinubu, he is the defender of the South west

Ok

When APC lose out in a state like Oyo state they will now be crying..Sunday dare is Tinubu's former chief of staff and Commissioner under Nigerian Communications Commission...He is from Ogbomosho..Like Tinubu imposed the likes of Adelabu on the party in Oyo state so he has done with this..80% of members of APC in Oyo state do not even know him..And in Politics,Politicians on the ground win election as those are the ones that work for the party..But in this case this one is not even known and will go a long way in even dividing the party more in Oyo state

The person I pity in all of this is Adelabu..Dude wasted his time and money together with his overbearing attitude.Instead of him to display a hand of friendship towards the likes of Joseph tegbe and co..people that were in the party even before he came in.He did not,he was carrying a air of pride around him thinking he would win..He has forgotten "A ji shey bi oyo laarin,Oyo o se bi baba enikan kan....We are not slaves like to Tinubu like Lagosians are..With him missing out on the ministerial appointment,it will take a miracle for him to make any impact again in Oyo state

Too Bad!

celeiyke:
U must be a Tinubu boy in the south west b4 u can amount to anything in Buhari govt. We will soon start worshipping Tinubu, he is the defender of the South west

Ngige is also a Tinubu boy. Better start worshipping him in the SE too.

Tinubu has grabbed the govt.

This is f**king impressive.
And yet one yeye old political party is busy wailing and calling their betters names.
Nonsence.

SleekyP:
Source: https://www.ncc.gov.ng/about-ncc/commissioners/124-executive-commissioner-mr-sunday-akin-dare

this is brain ,surely will see impact than communication minester getting award from comuputer seller association

Mtcheeeeeew.. Not that they are gonna make any difference



Am waiting for the day that we goan go streets and get people that have achievements in various aspects in order to make a ministerial list...

Imagine having a GUO as minister of transportation..

So that useless Shittu did not make the list?

make he adppt sacred cows if u know u know

once he joined buhari team he becomes a dullard

pawesome:
Mtcheeeeeew.. Not that they are gonna make any difference



Am waiting for the day that we goan go streets and get people that have achievements in various aspects in order to make a ministerial list...

Imagine having a GUO as minister of transportation..

Exactly

pawesome:
Mtcheeeeeew.. Not that they are gonna make any difference



Am waiting for the day that we goan go streets and get people that have achievements in various aspects in order to make a ministerial list...

Imagine having a GUO as minister of transportation..

Lol... You no well.

Barrister Shittu's replacement

Sincerely, the fact that PMB left Shittu out of his list shows a lot about PMB's integrity.

Shittu is PMB's personal person but he still ommited him because he flopped in the first tenure. If PMB was insincere he would have reappointed him.

Cajal:
AKALA HAS HIS VOICE....

GOD BLESS OGBOMOSHO
NIGERIA

Akala ko, Akalamagbo ni.

Chimaokigwe:
Ngige is also a Tinubu boy. Better start worshipping him in the SE too.

Epic reply

Ajimobi should go and face efcc, adelabu should go and face base one, shittu should face his clueless ness

Alajiki:
Akala ko, Akalamagbo ni.

Ouch. This wan lagbara gan-an

Wow...... Very rich CV

I'm impressed with his profile details.
All the best to him.

celeiyke:
U must be a Tinubu boy in the south west b4 u can amount to anything in Buhari govt. We will soon start worshipping Tinubu, he is the defender of the South west

Tinubu is not a defender of the South West

Tinubu is just one of the politicians in South West

stop speaking like an Aboki mallam