Patrick Dele-Cole

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Patrick Dele-Cole
NationalityNigerian
Education
Occupation(s)Journalist and Diplomat
Known forManaging director of Daily Times.
Children Tonye Cole

Patrick Dele-Cole (born 1940) is a Nigerian politician, journalist, historian, and diplomat who in 1976 became the managing director of the Daily Times . [1] [2] He was also a presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the early 1990s, [3] and was Nigeria's ambassador to Argentina and Brazil. [4]

He is author of the book Modern Traditional Elites in the Politics of Lagos. [5]

Life

He attended the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he earned a first class honours degree. He also studied at Cambridge University. [6] [7]

As a managing director of the Daily Times in 1976 he restored the paper's former influence [8] to become one of Africa's largest at that time, [9] and brought in influential journalists, including Dele Giwa and Dr. Stanley Macebuh. [10] [11]

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