ALHAJI GARBA BELLO KANKAROFI
Born on 22 October 1954 in the old city of Kano, Alhaji Garba Bello Kankarofi was begotten as the eldest son into the esteemed family of Alhaji Bello Sale Idris Kankarofi (Now Deceased) foremost Public Servant, and his wife, Hajia Binta Bello Mohammed (née Mohammed). Having been raised in a spiritual family, the tot was enrolled in a Qur’anic School in 1959. After this initial and early education, he was further enrolled at Kurmawa Primary School, Kano in 1961. Then again in 1968, he was admitted to the famous Government College (Now Rumfa College), Kano.
Garba Bello Kankarofi worked with a media research group from the University of Michigan, U.S.A. from 1973 to 1974, and in that same year, he enrolled for the Higher School Certificate.
He began his career as a commercial salesman in 1974 when he joined the staff of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. Thereafter, in 1977, he gained admission on merit, into the prestigious Bayero University, Kano to study Mass Communication. He graduated with honours and a Bachelor’s Degree, three years later. On graduation from College, he was employed to work for the Kano State Broadcasting Corporation.
From 1983 to 1993, he headed the Commercial Services Department of the Broadcasting Corporation in Kano. He 
was appointed the Managing Director of the Corporation in 1993, and served in that position until year 2006, when he was appointed as the Registrar/Chief Executive of the foremost regulatory body, the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria. Alhaji Garba Bello Kankarofi is a distinguished Fellow of the Advertising Profession and a media administrator par excellence.
In the 1980s, he met and impressed Hajia Bilikisu Kankarofi (née Sharif Bashir) with whom he is married and has seven (7) lovely children.
