Mamman Daura is a Nigerian newspaper editor who edited and managed the New Nigerian from 1969 to 1975.
He is a prominent member of the infamous Kaduna Mafia, a loose group of Nigerian businessmen, civil servants, intellectuals and military officers from Northern Nigeria.
In the late 1970s, he served on several government boards and agencies including the News Agency of Nigeria; and co-founded Funtua Textiles Limited
And in the 1980s, he was Chairman of the Nigerian Television Authority and later Africa International Bank. He also founded a furniture factory in Kaduna and was chairman of the defunct Nigerian Bank of Commerce and Industry.
Mamman, a nephew of Muhammadu Buhari, was influential in the military government of Buhari between 1984 and 1985; and later during his administration from 2015.
