Ex-Daily Times Chief Ambassador Dele Cole dies at 86

Former Managing Director of Daily Times Newspaper, Ambassador Dele Cole has died at the age of 86.

He died on Saturday morning, according to family sources

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The deceased was the Managing Director of Daily Times before he was appointed Nigeria’s ambassador to Argentina and Brazil.

Born August 4, 1940, in Abonnema, in the Kalabari Kingdom of present-day Rivers State, he started his education at St Bartholomew’s School, Enugu, where he studied from 1946 to 1953, before attending Baptist High School, Port Harcourt, from 1954 to 1958, and Ibadan Grammar School from 1959 to 1960.

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In 1962, he left Nigeria to pursue higher education at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he studied until 1965. He also attended the University of Cambridge from 1966 to 1970. Then King’s College, Cambridge, where he was a fellow between 1970 and 1973 and earned a doctorate in history.

In 1975, he was appointed a non-executive director of the Daily Times.

He served as Special Adviser on International Relations under President Obasanjo from 1999 to 2007. He was also appointed Nigeria’s ambassador to Brazil and Argentina.

He also ventured into politics and was associated with the Social Democratic Party in the 1990s

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