D. B. Zang

Da loh D. B. Zang OON, CFR (7 October 1927–29 May 2008) was a Nigerian tin miner, entrepreneur and politician who lived at the height of the tin mining era in Jos, British Nigeria. He was a non-elected member of the Northern Nigeria House of Assembly. He was a founding member and he served as the Plateau State chairman of the Nigerian People's Party (NPP) and will go on to use his own personal wealth to fill the party's coffers when all state governments produced by his party were denied subvention by the central NPN government of President Shehu Shagari. In 1995, D. B. Zang became a member of the national board of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF).

Following a glimpse of Zang, the following impression of the elder statesman was given:

On 24 August 2024, Daily Trust tipped Zang as one of the few enterprising northerners capable of rescuing the region.