R. A. B. Dikko

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R.A.B. Dikko was a Nigerian doctor and minister for transport during the administration Gen Yakubu Gowon. He was the first doctor and Western university graduate from Northern Nigeria and was a founding member of Jamiyar Mutanen Arewa, a Northern Nigeria cultural organization that later formed the nucleus of the Northern People's Congress. He was a permanent secretary in the endemic disease division of the region's ministry of Health in 1960.

He was educated by the Christian missionary Walter Miller and later married Miller's daughter, Comfort.