Former Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Selcap Dalung yesterday backed his newly inaugurated successor, Mr. Sunday Dare for a successful tenure.
Dalung said in a statement that he has no doubt that the newly appointed minister will make a mark in sports development and youth empowerment.
He wished the communications expert a resounding success in his new endeavour as the number one youth and sports administrator in Nigeria.
The Minister for Youth and Sports 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, the 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 experience in multimedia journalism spanning about 25 years.
He has replaced Solomon Selcap Dalung who oversaw the affairs of the ministry from November 2015 to May 28, 2019.
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