Musaddam Idriss Musa

Musaddam Idriss Musa is a multilingual Nigerian writer, journalist, poet, songwriter, novelist and publisher as well as literary critic. He worked as editor and correspondent of many Nigerian newspapers, including Leadership, Mujallar ADABI, Neptune Prime, Premium Times and Jakadiya. He also authored the official biography of the late Major-General Idris Alkali. He is the founder and president of the Writers Guild of Nigeria and active member of the Nigerian Folklore Society. Musaddam has been the Director of Media and Publicity of the Yobe Writers Association since 2018 and the pioneer Lead Representative of Poets In Nigeria, Potiskum Connect Centre as well as the Chairman of Potiskum Writers Association.

Musaddam is a CEO/Editor-in-Chief and publisher of Mujallar ADABI a Hausa Magazine founded in August 2017, a manager of a record label at Sarewa Musical Studio. He was Head of School Asasul Islam Nursery and primary school. He was also Senior Academic Officer and Vice Academic of Al'azhar College of Science and Humanities. In 2019 he co-founded SASTECH Academy. From 2017 to date he is contributing correspondent of Neptune Prime, Teen Trust and Leadership Hausa Ayau.

Musaddam was born in 1992 at Potiskum of former Nangere local government area of Yobe State. He started his non-formal Islamic education in his residence then to Khalid Bn Walid Islamic School were he obtained Quran. Musaddam attended Saint Paul Learners Academy for his Nursery school. In 2000 he was admitted into Damboa Primary School and later transferred to Kwata Primary School where he obtained his First school leaving certificate. He started junior secondary school in Government Junior Secondary School, Kara then proceeded to Government Day Secondary School Potiskum" in 2010. He studied Computer Science and Chemistry Education from Federal College of Education, Potiskum. He was also admitted into Harvard University to read Professional Diploma in Computer Science. Other schools Musaddam attended where the online courses from SkyLabs, India, Darussalam in Maiduguri and AP Goyal Shimla University.