President Bola Tinubu, has appointed former sport minister Sunday Akin Dare as his special adviser on public communication and orientation on October 23, 2024.
Dare previously served as Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports from 2019 to 2023.
Before that, he held the position of executive commissioner for stakeholder management at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) between 2016 and 2019, where he oversaw the NCC’s interactions with public and private sector stakeholders.
Dare also served as the chief of staff and special adviser on media to President Tinubu during his time as the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In 2009, Dare was appointed senior special assistant on media to the Minister of Information and Communications. In this role, he managed media-related decisions, public information dissemination, and media policies under the ministry’s jurisdiction.
From 2001 to 2009, Dare was the chief of the Hausa Service at the African Division of Voice of America (VOA) in Washington, DC, where he handled various portfolios, including the daily production of radio and online broadcast programmes.
He also led a team of international journalists based in Washington, DC and correspondents in West Africa for VOA.
Earlier in his career, Dare worked as a correspondent for ‘The Nation’ magazine in New York and as a production editor for the European-backed ‘Fourth Estate’ magazine during Nigeria’s military regime. He was also part of the founding team of the Nigerian weekly magazines ‘The News’ and ‘Tempo.’
