Nasiru L. Abubakar is a Nigerian journalist from Kaduna and the Editor in Chief of Dateline Nigeria, an online publication company based in Abuja, Nigeria.^[3][4][5]

Nasiru was born on 4 September 1977, in Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Nasiru holds a PGD in Mass Communication from BUK, PGD in International Relations and Diplomacy in addition to a HND in Mass Communication from Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna.^[6]

Nasiru started his journalism career at ABG Group. He worked briefly as an intern with KSMC in Kaduna before joining Daily Trust Newspapers first as a freelancer in August 2000 before becoming a permanent staff in 2004.^[7][8] At Daily Trust, he was appointed Acting Editor (Saturday) in 2012, before he was redeployed to the Daily as Deputy Editor. In 2014 ^[9] before he was confirmed as the editor in 2016.^[10][11][12] As the editor, he won Editor of the Year in 2016^[13][14] and Daily Trust won Newspaper of the year award.^[15][16]

In 2019, Nasiru was appointed Managing Editor of Daily Trust.^[17][18] He resigned in 2020 to join Dateline Nigeria as the Editor in Chief.^{[19][20][21][22]}

He writes for Gamji.com since 2015^[23][24][25] and contributes to other outlets.^[26]