Nigeria, March 11 -- But Mallam was my mentor, an uncommon enabler, on whose wings many of us rode to recognition in professional practice and to the centre of APRA as the central organising principle for public relations offerings in Africa. It was he who handed me over to Dr Wole Adamolekun, who succeeded him as APRA's scribe, though I had known him earlier at the height of my twitchy spirit and itinerant activism. I refer to the time I wanted to do everything under the sun to remake Nigeria. To that extent, Dangogo was our 'Mwalimu', a special teacher, a Socratic mentor - yes, he was a philosopher and a natural nexus in the most antiseptic conception of network analysis.

In APRA, before Dangogo, Nigeria had the legendary Sam Epelle, t...