{"id":5314,"date":"2019-06-06T14:26:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:52:36","slug":"vincent-bala-danture-is-our-featured-journalist-for-the-month-of-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2019\/06\/06\/vincent-bala-danture-is-our-featured-journalist-for-the-month-of-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Bala Danture is our Featured Journalist For The Month of June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Bala Danture is the State Reporter of Nigeria&#8217;s Channels Television in Gombe State and the General Secretary of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Gombe State Council.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent attended Powishi Primary School Billiri, for his First School Leaving Certificate, then proceeded to Government Secondary School Kaltungo, where he obtained Senior School Certificate [SSCE]. He later went to Federal Polytechnic Bauchi for Advanced Certificate in Mass communication. His first degree was in History from the University of Maiduguri. He is currently pursuing his Masters&#8217; Degree in History from Gombe State University.<\/p>\n<p>His love for Research\/Documentary writing what was prompted his love for journalism and so far he is enjoying what he does. He has no regret whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>In his 18 years of journalism experience, Vincent has worked with Gombe State Media Cooperation as Reporter and is currently working with Channels Television as its State Reporter in Gombe.<\/p>\n<p>He hails from Kaltungo Local Government Area of Gombe state. Born to the family of Mr and Mrs Bala Danture.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent is married and has children.<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'xdav_tracker', 96 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() &#038;&#038; current_user_can( &#8216;administrator&#8217; ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Bala Danture is the State Reporter of Nigeria&#8217;s Channels Television in Gombe State and the General Secretary of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Gombe State Council. Vincent attended Powishi&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2019\/06\/06\/vincent-bala-danture-is-our-featured-journalist-for-the-month-of-june\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":936,"featured_media":5317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journalists-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12905,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions\/12905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}