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Patrick Dele-Cole

Nigerian diplomat, journalist, and elder statesman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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]

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

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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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