A veteran broadcaster who worked with British Broadcasting corporation Hausa service, Alhaji Mato Adamu is dead.
According to family sources, the veteran journalist died Friday evening at the Specialists Hospital, Gombe, after a brief illness at the age of 60
After he left the BBC, he worked as a freelance journalist with several international media organisations, including Reuters, Global Mercury News as it’s Managing Editor, he owned Silverline a media consultancy company.
He was an indigene of Dambam Local Government Area of Bauchi State, however, late Mato Adamu based in Gombe State, where he worked as a media consultant.
He briefly served as Chief Media Consultant to Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State, during the governor’s first tenure.
His funeral prayer was slated for Saturday by 11am at the Specialists Hospital, Gombe.
He was survived by wife and children.