Ambassador Jibrin Dada Chinade has spent most of his working life in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he rose to become ambassador in the two Guineas (Conakry and Bissau) in 1978.
He was also Nigeria’s envoy in the Netherlands and later on, the Soviet Union, before he became the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he retired in 1999. He remains active as an adviser in that field.