Yakoyo, Osun State.
AKINRINADE,
Soji
BA, MA;
- Married
Director, MayFive Media Limited, January 2012-;
Staff, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), 1979;
Assistant Features Editor, The Punch, Lagos, 1980-81;
Features Editor, The Punch, Lagos, 1981-82;
Deputy Editor, The Punch, Lagos, 1982-83;
Assistant Editor, Sunday Concord, 1983-84;
Associate Editor, Newswatch Magazine, 1984-85;
Senior Associate Editor, Newswatch Magazine, 1986-87;
General Editor, Newswatch Magazine, 1987-94;
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Newswatch Magazine,1994-2010;
Executive Director/ Editor-in-Chief, Newswatch Magazine, 2010-2011;
Consulting Editor, Africa Today, 2005-2015
Member, Commonwealth Journalists Association; Member, Society of Professional Journalists, Member, Phi Kappa Phi Scholastic Honor Society, USA; Member, Journalism Association for Minorities, USA; Nuffield Press Fellow of Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK; Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors.
reading,squash, table tennis
Oluwadamilola Street, Omole Housing Estate, Phase I, Omole, Lagos.
He is a contributor to “Ojukwu”, a book published in 2012 by MayFive Media Limited (a company which he co-founded with three other veteran journalists). Additionally, he contributed to Newswatch’s Book, “Jogging in the Jungle: The Newswatch Story” and “Moving in Circles”, which was published in 2012.
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