Chairman/CEO of Blueprint Newspapers Limited, Alhaji Mohammed Idris (Malagi), has been appointed into the All
Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) as Director of Strategic Communications.
The PCC Secretary, Rt. Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, announced the composition of the council in a press release on Friday.
Consisting of 422 members, the council is to be chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari with the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as Deputy Chairman.
It is also composed of many accomplished professionals and politicians in various fields, one of whom is Malagi.
The publisher, who was 2023 APC gubernatorial aspirant in Niger State is bringing to his new national assignment over three decades experience as a teacher, public relations consultant and media mogul with interest in print and broadcast media.
Apart from being the Chairman/CEO of Blueprint Newspapers Limited, publishers of Blueprint daily, Blueprint Weekend and the tabloid, Manhaja, he is also the chairman of We FM, an Abuja-based radio station.
Regarded as a quiet, unassuming and silent achiever and visionary leader in recognition of his contribution to the APC both at the state and national levels, he was appointed as the Chairman of Board of Directors, Abuja Property Development Company (APDC) in 2017, a position he resigned from recently in order to pursue his political ambition.
An accomplished media entrepreneur, public relations consultant, philanthropist and Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, Alhaji Malagi is the Chairman/CEO of Bifocal Group, a leading conglomerate with headquarters in Abuja, and has been the chief strategist and visioner of all companies in the group for nearly 30 years, providing communication solutions to clients in the public and private sectors of the Nigerian economy.
Further, the media mogul is the Secretary General, Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) and a member of the following associations: the International Press Institute (IPI); US-based Online News Association; Public Relations Consultants of Nigeria; African Public Relations Associations ( APRA), Northern Media Forum and Northern Broadcast Media Owners Association.
He was also at various times the Chairman, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, Kaduna chapter, and Vice Chairman, Public Relations Consultants of Nigeria.
Born on May 2, 1966, Malagi is a 1987 graduate of English from University of Sokoto, now Usman Danfodio University, and obtained a master’s degree in English from Bayero University, Kano.
The 56-year-old politician holds the traditional title of Kakaaki Nupe, bestowed on him by His Royal Highness, the Etsu Nupe, Alhaji (Dr) Yahaya Abubakar, in recognition of his philanthropic gesture and personal disposition as a worthy ambassador of Nupe Kingdom and Niger State on the national and international media and public relations space.
