Governor Abdullahi Alhaji Sule of Nasarawa State has appointed Mallam Ali Abare as his Special Assistant on Media.
This was disclosed in a statement issued, on Monday, signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Tijjani Aliyu Ahmed.
Until his appointment, Abare was the immediate past editor of an Abuja-based online newspaper, the Peoples Journal.
A graduate of Mass Communication from the University of Jos, Abare was formerly Politics Editor and Senate Correspondent for the Peoples Daily.
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He later moved to The Sun newspaper where he served as Gombe State correspondent of the national daily.
Abare is also Nigeria’s correspondent for the Associated Reporters Abroad (ARA), a group of professional freelancers writing mostly for international news media.
He is a member of the US-based Muck Rack, with his articles severally published in USA Today, Washington Times, among others.
Abare is married with children.