Akin Olaniyan to speak at JFC November fellowship

The November 2021 edition of the monthly fellowship of Journalists For Christ is scheduled to hold this Saturday, 20^th, at the International Press Centre, Dideolu Estate, Ogba, Lagos, Nigeria.

With the theme, The Pursuit Of Excellence In The Media, Akin Olaniyan, a new media specialist, trainer, researcher and corporate communications expert has been aptly chosen as the main speaker to properly analyse it.

Presently Lead Strategist, The Chatter House, a new media consultancy based in Lagos, Olaniyan was formerly Deputy Editor, The Punch; Corporate Communication Specialist, Zenith Bank; and Group Business Editor, Independent Newspapers.

He holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree (Ph.D) in Media Research and Corporate Communication from the University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; MA in Social Media from the University of Westminster, London; Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Ibadan; and Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the Nigeria Institute of Journalism.

In September 1998, he attended a Writing Business News course sponsored by the Reuters Foundation in London and between January and July 2000 was at Oxford University, United Kingdom for the Foundation’s University Fellowship.

He was also at the International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, Washington DC as a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Fellow where he produced a handbook on independent media monitoring, The Problem With The Nigerian Media.