Why we invited Adeola Yusuf, an Award-winning African journalist, to share new media knowledge with us – student-journalists
Team Lead of Platforms Africa, Adeola Yusuf, has been invited as guest lecturer at the Federal Polytechnic Ilaro (FEDPOLY Ilaro) Association of Mass Communication Students’ (AMACOS) Lecture.
Yusuf, an Award-winning African journalist, was invited, according to a letter from AMACOS, having carefully considered his pedigree and rising profile as a development and new media journalist to “share with us knowledge of the new media.”
The letter signed by AMACOS President and General Secretary, Comrade Sodiq Adelakun and Comrade Esther Awe, respectively, reads; “This is to formally request your presence as a guest lecturer at the AMACOS Day celebrations 2021/2022 academic session slated to hold on 27th September, 2022. Theme: “Social Media Regulation: Insecurity And News Accountability In Nigeria.
“Having carefully considered you as a communication expert and scholar, it will be our delight to invite you to share with us knowledge of the new media. The entire members and executives of the above named association will be sincerely grateful if our request is granted.”
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.
He has, in line of duty as a journalist, travelled to some of the major cities of the World for conferences, seminars and Workshop. He was in London, United Kingdom (UK) for 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, Radio One, Women Radio, Mainland FM as well as Radio Lagos.
