Jamilah Tangaza (alternately Jamila Tangaza) is a Nigerian journalist and technocrat. She is a former

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journalist, where she worked in various capacities before becoming Head of Hausa Service. Tangaza is a Fellow of

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and member of

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of the

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Early life

Tangaza was born in the

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, Northern Nigeria. She was appointed as the Head of Abuja Information Management Systems, AGIS in 2013.

Journalism career

Tangaza started working with the

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as a producer in 1992 where she worked in production various programmes for the

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Service. She became Senior producer in 1994, a position which entails overseeing production and reporters' output from the

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n region. She worked with other BBC departments both in presenting and producing programmes such as

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as well as those focusing on Africa including

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and Network Africa. Two years after establishing BBC Abuja office in 2004, Tangaza was deployed to Nigeria and appointed the BBC's Abuja editor, tasked with planning and co-ordinating BBC's coverage from Nigeria. She became acting Head of

responsible for overseeing the Service's daily output as well as coordinating activities both in

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and

Abuja Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ...

References

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