Kano State
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:
B.A.; M.A.; Certificate in Natural Resource Management; Certificate in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
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.
– 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.
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)
PUBLICATIONS:
– Chido Onumah and Frederick Adetiba, “Testimony to Courage”, 2019. (A book of essays in honour of frontline journalist, Dapo Olorunyomi)
TWITTER;
@DapsyOly
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