Former member of the House of Representatives, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, was on Monday appointed the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora.
Dabiri-Erewa, who co-compered the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential campaign rallies along with Senator Dino Melaye, was elected into the House of Representatives, representing Ikorodu Constituency in Lagos State in 2003 and was re-elected in 2007 and 2011 under the platform of the then Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.
She was born in Jos, Plateau State and attended Maryland Private School, Maryland, Ikeja and St. Teresa’s College, Ibadan, for her primary and secondary education respectively.
She obtained her first degree in English Language from the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, before proceeding to the University of Lagos where she obtained a Post-Graduate Diploma, PGD, in Mass Communication.
She also obtained a master’s degree in Mass Communication from the same university and also studied at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
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