Patrick Dele-Cole | |
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Nationality | Nigerian |
Education |
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Occupation(s) | Journalist and Diplomat |
Known for | Managing 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]
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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