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As a media man myself, I feel ashamed that we failed our people and invariably failed our society. Rather than playing the watchdog we come accomplices of these corrupt office holders. It is amazing that no press saw anything bad in the way Governors of the oil producing states squandered the special allocations given to them. Bayelsa in spite of what it got cannot boast of any improvement in lives of its people.
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Serosa
I am a tested, award-winning investigative journalist, and the Managing Editor of AFRICANANEWS.COM
I am the Coordinator/Project director of Investigative Reporters Association of Nigeria. I am a member of several professional associations including the Investigative Reporters and Editors, National Association of Black Journalists, NABJ and the National Association of African Journalists, NAAJ. I am also currently taking a Graduate program in Communication at the Trinity University, Washington, D.C.
I started journalism from Nigeria, at the Ibadan Grammar School where I was the President of the Press Club. At the University of Ibadan, I was the deputy Editor-In-Chief of Curious magazine.
I joined the services of Tempo Magazine, in 1998 as a reporter/researcher. The magazine, a radical pro democracy publication was set up in the heady days of Nigeria’s battle with military tyranny.
I became the Defense Correspondent in 1999. In 2000 I became the first person to win the Brig-Gen. Buba Marwa Prize for the Nigerian Media Merit Award as the defense Reporter of the year 2000-2001. I left Tempo in 2001 for the Anchor on Sunday, and later to Sunday Punch as Senior Correspondent in March 2002. I was the Nigeria Editor of Vernacular media an online news provider.
I am also a contributing writer to Focus magazine (London), Eagle View Press (Stamford, Connecticut, USA, African Abroad, and the West African News based in New York, New York. I write for a Nigerian online news provider, (www.nigeriaworld.com/seyioduyela) and Dawodu.com.
I was in South Africa in August 2002 to present a paper at an international journalism conference organized by Highway Africa (www.highwayafrica.org.za/2002/dayone/oluseyioduyela).
As an investigative reporter, my report that exposed the embezzlement of Soldiers’ transfer allowance by the military authorities won him an award. The report forced the Chief of Defense Staff to refund the allowance.
It was also my interview with Lt. Gen. Victor Malu (Military Pact: We will resist the Americans, Tempo March 8 2001) that led to Malu’s forced retirement in April 2001. General Malu was a former Chief of Army Staff in Nigeria from 1999-2001.
Religious Studies Scholar by training. I am a product of the prestigious University of Ibadan, where I obtained B.A (Hon) in Religious Studies (1990) and M.A in Old Testament (1992).
I worked as a lecturer at the Tai Solarin College of Education, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State from 1992-2000.
As a lecturer, I have many academic journal articles to my credit, conference and seminar papers. I was also a contributor to a book written and published on the Late Tai Solarin titled: “Tai Solarin’s views on Religion: A critique” Tai Solarin- The Making of a Humanist, Edited by A.B. Okanlawon & O.T. Fasanmi, Ijebu- Ode: Admass Publishing Co. Ltd (2000).
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