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Washington, D.C., Aug. 8, 2001 – Sunday Dare has been named the Chief of the Voice of America’s (VOA) Hausa-language service, which broadcasts to an estimated audience of 6 million listeners a week, principally in Nigeria. 

Prior to his appointment, Dare completed a one-year Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in June 2001. In addition, under a 1998 Freedom Forum Fellowship, he was a visiting scholar at New York University’s School of Journalism. While participating in these fellowships, Dare served as a columnist and correspondent for the Nigerian paper The Nation from 1998 until 2001.

Dare has previously worked as bureau chief, senior, general and on-line editor of The News, a weekly, English-language newsmagazine in Abuja and Lagos, Nigeria. He was a pioneer member of The News Group, which operated The News as an underground paper during the period of military dictatorship in Nigeria. The News Group also publishes The Tempo, a political magazine, and PM News, a daily newspaper. Dare’s experience also includes working as a news correspondent, a newspaper reporter, and a features writer in the Middle Belt Region and Abuja, Nigeria. 

For his endeavors in journalism, Dare was awarded membership in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalist (ICIJ). Founded in 1997, ICIJ is a project of The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative research organization based in Washington, D.C.  He is also a member and correspondent for Reporters Sans Frontieres, an organization that raises awareness and defends press freedom around the world.

Dare received his bachelor’s degree in international relations from Ahamadu Univeristy in Zaria Kaduna State, Nigeria. He earned his master’s degree in international law and diplomacy from the University of Jos in Plateau State, Nigeria. 

The Voice of America is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. Government. VOA broadcasts over 900 hours of news, informational, educational, and cultural programming every week to an audience of some 91 million worldwide. VOA’s Hausa-language service broadcasts three half-hour programs daily via short wave and medium wave radio. The programs are also available at www.voa.gov/hausa/, live and on-demand. VOA Hausa has FM affiliates in the four major population centers of Niger and elsewhere. VOA programs are produced and broadcast in English, Hausa and 51 other languages. 

For additional information, please contact the Office of External Affairs at (202) 619-2538 or send email to pubaff@voa.gov.