Solomon Dalong (born September 26, 1964) is the current Nigerian sports minister. Dalong attended LEA Primary School Sabon Gida from 1971 to 1977. He then proceeded to Government College Keffi, now in Nassarawa State, for his secondary school education.
Solomon Dalong joined the Nigerian Prisons Service in the early eighties and in 1991 while still in the Prisons Service, Dalong enrolled to study Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Jos. He proceeded to the Nigerian Law School, Bwari, in Abuja, graduated in 2000 and was called to the Bar in 2001.
He worked as Personal Assistant to Chief Solomon Lar when Lar was appointed as Adviser Emeritus to President Olusegun Obasanjo, until 2004 when he took up an appointment with the Faculty of Law of the University of Jos as a lecturer. In 2005, he combined his job as a lecturer and study while pursuing a prost graduate degree in Law, which he finished n 2007.
In the same 2007, Dalong was appointed the Chairman of Langtang South Local Government Area. He returned to the University of Jos in 2008 at the expiration of his tenure.
Dalong joined the Prisons Service as a Prison Assistant and rose to the rank of Assistant Inspector of Prisons. He was moved to the legal department of prisons where he served as Legal Officer II in the prisons headquarters before his
retirement.
In 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari named Solomon Dalong as the new sports and youth minister during the inauguration of 36 ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Solomon Dalong net worth is estimated $50 million (net worth estimated in 2017).
* An Uzomedia Biography
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