OLORUNYOMI, Dapo Oyekunle

Biographical record

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

November 8, 1957

Place of Birth

Kano State

Father's Name

Samuel Akinbayo Olorunyomi

Mother's Name

Mary Olorunyomi

Name of Spouse

Ladi Olorunyomi

Profession

Journalist

Schools Attended with Dates

SCHOOLS ATTENDED: St. Bartholomew’s Primary School, Wusasa, Zaria; Esie-Iludun Anglican Grammar School, Esie-Iludun; Government Secondary School, Ilorin; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1981,1985; American University, Washington College of Law, Washington D.C, USA, 2006; Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, UK, 2017.

Educational Qualification

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

B.A.; M.A.; Certificate in Natural Resource Management; Certificate in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

Present Appointment

Publisher of Premium Times, June 2011-till date; Founder, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ); Chief Judge for the Zimeo Award of the African Media Initiative (AMI); Board Member, the Norbert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalism (an initiative of the UNODC), and the transnational investigative body for West Africa headquartered in Burkina Faso, CENOZO.

Previous Appointments

- Editor, Radio Nigeria;

- Editor, African Guardian magazines;

- Enterprise Editor/Head of the Investigative Reporting Team, Timbuktu Media Limited (publishers of 234Next);

- Founding Editor, The News, PM News and Tempo Magazine;

- Director, Africa Programs at the Panos Institute, Washington D.C., USA, 1996;

- He later worked with the Dakar, Senegal office of the Open Society Initiative (OSI) in Budapest, Hungary;

- International Jury for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [ICIJ] Award, 1999-2001;

- Project Director, Freedom House, 2004;

- West Africa Analyst for the Global Survey of Media Independence, 2004;

- Editor-in-Chief of Premium Times, June 2011;

- Policy Director and the Chief of Staff to the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Have you ever been a member of any political party?

N/A

Awards and Honours

AWARDS AND HONOURS:

- International Editor of the Year Award by the World Press Review (1995)
- PEN Center (West) Freedom to Write Award (1996)
- Press Freedom Award of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) New York, U.S.A (1996)
- Hellman Hemmett grant of the Human Rights Watch (1996)
- Diamond Award for Media Excellence's Lifetime Achievement Award by Diamond Publications (2017)

Creative Work/Major Exhibitions

PUBLICATIONS:

- Chido Onumah and Frederick Adetiba, "Testimony to Courage", 2019. (A book of essays in honour of frontline journalist, Dapo Olorunyomi)

Other Relevant Information

TWITTER;

@DapsyOly