R. A. B. Dikko

Russel Aliyu Barau Dikko (1912–1977) was a Nigerian medical doctor who was a former federal commissioner for Mines and Power and was the first medical doctor from Northern Region, Nigeria.

Dikko attended the CMS elementary school in Wusasa and later went to King's College "[3] He then continued his studies at the University of Birmingham.

[4] After finishing his studies, he returned to Nigeria and joined the colonial service as a junior medical officer in 1940.

He gradually rose through the ranks of the civil service, becoming a senior medical officer in 1953 and a principal medical officer in the endemic disease division of the Northern Nigeria Ministry of Health in 1960.

Dikko was a founding member of Jamiyar Mutanen Arewa, a Northern Nigeria cultural organisation that later formed the nucleus of the Northern People's Congress".