▪️.. Why we invited the award-winning African journalist as a guest speaker/resource facilitator to our media workshop on Economics of Mass Media in Nigeria – Associate Professor Semiu Bello
The department of Mass Communication, Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) has invited the Team Lead of Platforms Africa, Adeola Yusuf, as a guest speaker/resource facilitator for a media workshop.
Yusuf, an Award-winning African journalist, was invited, according to a letter from Semiu Bello, PhD, Associate Professor of Mass Communication, OOU, to the workshop, which is “the practical component of MAS 316: Economics of Mass Media, a course, designed to expose and empower students about the practical realities of running media organisations in Nigeria for profit making and economic survival.”
The letter reads, “On behalf of the 300 level students of the Department of Mass Communication, Olabisi Onabanjo Ago-Iwoye, I humbly invite your Eminence as a Guest Speaker/Resource Facilitator to our Media Workshop on Economics of Mass Media in Nigeria.
“This Media Workshop is the practical component of MAS 316: Economics of Mass Media, a course, designed to expose and empower our students about the practical realities of running media organisations in Nigeria for profit making and economic survival. The ultimate objective function of the Media Workshop is to bring the Media Entrepreneur in our students out for them to begin to envision a big dream even before leaving the University.
“In this case, the theme of the Media Workshop is: The Industrial Model of Media in Nigeria. “And your specific topic is: Print Media Organisations in Nigeria from Conception to Economic Glory: Weaning the Young Journalists.
“We’d appreciate to have your presentation in a PowerPoint mode as it will be part of our students’ reading materials.
“The Media Workshop is scheduled to hold on Wednesday 17th July, 2024 at 10:00am in the Department of Mass Communication, OOU.
“Sir, we enthusiastically look up to that day and your scholarly rendition for the benefit of our students”.
An investigative journalist of repute, Adeola Yusuf, has, at the global stage and within Nigeria, won many journalism awards, fellowships, bursaries, and recognitions.
He is a winner of the African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) Bursary Award, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2016. He was in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2017 as a winner of the Tax Justice Network Africa (TJN-A’s) Bursary on tax evasion and illicit finance reporting in Africa.
Yusuf is also a two-time winner, Thomson Reuters Foundation Scheme on Illicit Trade and Finance Reporting in Africa held in Kampala, Uganda, 2015, and 2016.
He won the 2021 Best Story category of the Chevron/Pan-Atlantic University AWARES Alumni Award.
A serial winner of the Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA) as Best Journalist (Oil/Gas and Energy categories), Yusuf has won over 10 nominations taking home the gong for the year 2015, 2017, and 2019 editions of the country’s most prestigious media award.
He has, in line of duty as a journalist, travelled to some of the major cities of the world for conferences, seminars, and workshops. He was in London, United Kingdom (UK), for the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) conference (2011). He has, on many occasions, travelled to Houston, Texas, the acclaimed oil and gas capital of the World for Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). He also attended a conference of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), among others.
His media experience spanned the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the Ogun State Television (OGTV), The Monitor Newspaper, TheWEEK magazine, DAILYSUN Newspaper, Daily Independent, New Telegraph among others.
He is a sought-after financial and energy (oil, gas, power, renewables) policy analyst who is a regular face on News Central TV, Television Continental (TVC), Channels Television, Lagos Television, NTA, Ogun State Television (OGTV), Radio One, Women Radio, Mainland FM as well as Radio Lagos.
Adeola Yusuf, a Ph.D. candidate at the Lagos State University (LASU) was at the Crescent University for his BSc, and the University of Lagos (UNILAG) for his Masters degree in Mass Communication.
Between 1999 and 2005, he was at the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, where he bagged ND and HND in Mass Communication, and graduated as the overall best student in the school of Communications and generally studies.
He is married to Fateemah, and the union is blessed with beautiful children.
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