Abdulkadir Ahmed Ibrahim, FNGE Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Director General of the International Centre for Islamic Culture and Education, ICICE. Alhaji Abdulkadir Ahmed Ibrahim, a Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (FNGE), is a Media Consultant, Chief Executive of TeeCee Media Services Kano and is the Special Assistant (Media and Publicity) to Dr Kabir Kabo Usman, the Director General and Chief Executive of International Centre for Islamic Culture and Education, ICICE, Wuse II, Abuja. The ICICE (which is the custodian of Al-Noor Mosque, Abuja) focuses on Interfaith Dialogue, Trainings in Islamic Finance, Science of Qur’an and Arabic Language courses, Poverty Eradication and Scholarship to indigent students. Abdulkadir Ibrahim is also the Editor in Chief of AL-NOOR, a bi-weekly news magazine published by the ICICE in Abuja. From September 2004 to May 2007, he was Press Secretary to the Deputy Governor of Kano State (now late) Senator Engineer Magaji Abdullahi, and in 2012 he was appointed to represent the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, as a member of Governing Board of Legal Aid Council of Nigeria for a three-year term that lapsed in 2015. He equally served in the Technical Committee (Media and Communications Thematic Area) of VISION 20: 2020 – a Federal Government programme launched in 2009 primarily planned to stimulate Nigeria’s economic growth and launch the country onto a path of sustained and rapid socio-economic development and to position Nigeria to become one of the top 20 economies in the world by 2020. He was Special Assistant (Ad-hoc) to the Director General of Centre for Management Development, CMD, Abuja, from 2nd February, 2015 to 1st February, 2018, and a Consultant to Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action, PRAWA, with head office in Abuja, an NGO that promotes institutional reforms to create access to justice, rehabilitation, and social development for prisoners, ex-prisoners, torture victims and youth at risk. Alhaji Abdulkadir was the Media Focal Person of Nigeria Police Human Rights Training Programme a Special Capacity Building project specifically aimed at re-orienting Officers and Men of the Nigerian Police Force on how to comply with Human Rights Conventions and Statutes while performing their duties. It was organized and coordinated by PRAWA and sponsored by the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) of the Swiss Government and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), from 2014 to 2018. He was born at Karofingangamo (Lungun Kwakwatawa) in Dala Local Government Area of Kano City on October 23rd 1956 and educated at Adakawa and Dala Primary Schools (1965 to 1971), Government Secondary School Gwale (1972 to 1976) and College of Advanced Studies, (1972 to 1978) all in Kano State. He studied Broadcast and Print Journalism at the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) Staff Training School, Lagos in 1979 and 1983 and at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ, Jos Campus, in 1981 and 1984. Alhaji Abdulkadir holds a Diploma in Mass Communications of Bayero University, Kano, obtained in 1989. He attended several other courses and participated at seminars and workshops at home and abroad on media and allied subject matters. He started his career at Radio Kano in February 1979 as a News Reporter and rose through the ranks to become the Assistant Director of News and Current Affairs. In 1989 he was deployed to Kano State Television Corporation, ARTV 44 (formerly CTV 67) where he worked as a Senior News Reporter, Editor, Principal News Editor, Controller and later Manager of News and Current Affairs. He was redeployed back to Radio Kano in 2007 and retired as an Assistant Director of News and Current Affairs in February 2014. An active member of the Nigerian Guild of Editors since 2000, he was Chairman of Kano State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, from 1981 to 1983, a National Trustee from 1990 to 1994 and a National Vice President from 1994 to 1997. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Nigerian Guild of Editors in 2014. An ace reporter who covered the Judiciary, Crime and Political beats, Alhaji Abdulkadir was Radio Kano Correspondent from 1979 to 1980 at the Justice M. B. I. Layiwola Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters (1966 to 1979) in Kano State, the Justice Anthony Aniagolu Commission of Inquiry into Kano Civil Disturbances (Maitatsine Crisis) of 1980, the Kaduna Zone of the Special Military Tribunal on the Recovery of Public Property, 1984 to 1985 and covered the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Abuja Summit in 1991 for CTV 67. He intermittently covered Kano State House of Assembly and Kano State Government House in 1979, 1980, 1984 and 1985. He visited all (but three) the States of Nigeria and Abuja, Saudi Arabia, Cote d’I voire, Morocco, Niger Republic, Sweden and Egypt. Abdulkadir is married to one wife and has six children.