Babatunde Jose
Alhaji  Ismail Babatunde Jose OFR  (an haife shi a Legas a kuma ranar 13 ga watan Disamban shekarar 1925, ya mutu ne a ranar 2 ga watan Agustan shekarata 2008) ɗan jaridar Nijeriya ne kuma editan jarida. Jaridar The Guardian ce ta bayyana shi a matsayin "fitaccen jajiratate doyen aikin jarida a Najeriya" kuma a matsayin "daya daga cikin fitattun ƴan jaridar Najeriya";  na jaridar Independent a matsayin "editan jaridar da ya mamaye aikin jarida a Najeriya tsawon shekaru talatin" kuma a matsayin "babbar bishiyar da tsironta ya tsiro da sauran titan na aikin";  kuma ta Kamfanin Watsa Labarai na Burtaniya a matsayin "kakan aikin jarida na Najeriya".

Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haife Jose ga dangin Hamzat da Hajarat Jose, mahaifinsa dan kasuwa ne, asalinsa Ikare  a cikin jihar Ondo, wanda ya koma Lagos, mahaifiyarsa dangin Nupe ce .Kakan sa ya taɓa zama Sarkin Musulmi na Kalaba Kalaba .  Babatunde Jose ya yi karatun sa a makarantar Gwamnatin Legas, Yaba, Legas, makarantar Methodist, Yaba da St Saviour's College.

Aikin jarida 
Jose ya fara aiki a Nnamdi Azikiwe 's Daily Comet, kafin ya zama mai horarwa a Daily Times a 1941 yana da shekaru 16. An canza shi zuwa sashen edita a matsayin Ƙaramin mai rahoto a 1946 sannan yayi aiki a matsayin wakilin Times a yankin Gabas da yankin Arewa . A cikin 1947, ƙungiyar Daily Mirror ta sayi hannun jari mafi yawa a cikin Daily Times. Daga 1948 zuwa 1950, ya kasance wakilin siyasa da masana’antu na jaridar Times kuma a 1950, ya zama editan labarai.  Ya yi aiki da takardu da yawa (ciki har da Daily Mirror a Fleet Street a Landan tsawon shekara a 1951), sannan ya koma Daily Times inda aka yi masa mataimakin edita a 1952. A ranar 13 ga watan Disamba, 1957, aka naɗa shi edita kafin ya zama memba a hukumar a watan Satumba na 1958. Najeriya ta sami 'yencin kai a shekara ta 1960, kuma Jose ya ci gajiyar manufofin Afirka : an "nada shi manajan daraktan Afirka na farko na kamfanin a cikin 1962, ya zama shugaba shi ma a 1968". A cikin shekaru masu zuwa, jaridar Daily Times ta zama jaridar da aka fi sayarwa a Najeriya. A 1965, an ba shi lambar jami'in Tarayyar .  

"[K] een a kan 'yan jarida masu ilimi," Jose "ya fita daga hanyarsa don kafa makarantar horarwa da kuma ɗaukar ma'aikata da suka kammala karatu".  A cewar jaridar The Independent, ya tsara wadanda za a horar da shi da waɗanda suka kammala karatunsu "a matsayin masu bayar da rahotanni marasa mutunci da kuma marubuta wadanda za su iya bayyana matsayin manyan 'yan siyasa da manyan sojoji da suka mulki kasar", duk da cewa ya "bijire wa siyasa na bangaranci".  Daya daga cikin waɗanda suka samu horo, Segun Osoba, wanda daga baya ya zama Gwamnan Jihar Ogun, ya ce game da shi "yana karfafa ilimin boko a aikin jarida na Najeriya" kuma "ya samar da ɗumbin ƙwararrun 'yan jarida [...] dayawa daga cikinsu kuma sun ci gaba da kafa su mallaki jaridu da kuma samar da wasu 'yan jarida da yawa ". 

Bayan wani juyin mulki da Janar Murtala Mohammed ya yi a shekarar 1975, an tilasta wa Daily Times ta sayar da kashi 60% na hannun jarin ta ga gwamnati, kuma “an saukaka Jose”, ya tashi bayan shekara guda. Jaridar daga baya ta ƙi. 

Daga 1976 zuwa gaba, ya ci gaba da neman aiki a matsayin "ɗan kasuwa kuma masanin harkar watsa labarai, yana riƙe da waɗannan muƙamai a matsayin shugaban Hukumar Gidan Talabijin na Najeriya ".  Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin "shugaban kungiyar Ahmadiyya ta Musulunci da kuma kwamitoci da yawa da kungiyoyin masana'antu". 

Duk da cewa bai taba kammala jami'a ba, Jami'ar Benin ta ba shi digirin girmamawa na shari'a. "Ba yadda za a yi wa Musulmi, shi ma ya karbi kyautar Paparoman Pius saboda ƙarfafa fahimtar addini." 

A 1987, ya buga tarihin rayuwarsa, Walking a Tight Rope .

Manazarta 

Mutanen Nijeriya
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Yarbawa
Ƴan Najeriya