Osoba To Chair Folu Olamiti’s Book Launch In Ibadan

Veteran journalist, Sir Folu Olamiti, will on Thursday, November 30, 2023 launch his new book at the University of Ibadan (UI) International Conference Centre in Ibadan, Oyo State.

The event, slated for 11am, will be chaired by a doyen of journalism in Nigeria and former governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba. He will be supported by a former Managing Director of Daily Times of Nigeria, Chief Tola Adeniyi, who incidentally wrote the forward to the book.

According to a statement signed by the chairman, Organizing Committee, Raheem Adedoyin, FNGE, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris Malagi, will serve as the Special Guest of Honour.

He stated that Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State will serve as the Chief Host, while Governors Dapo Abiodun, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, Abiodun Oyebanji, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Ogun, Ondo Ekiti and Kwara States, respectively, and former Governors of Ekiti and Ondo States, Dr Kayode Fayemi and Dr Segun Mimiko respectively are expected to attend.

The book, titled, “A Peep Into the Past”, is part memoir and part collection of landmark articles and reportage by Sir Olamiti in his about 50 years career in journalism.

Akogun Tola Adeniyi said of the book, “This book is more or less a guide and a tutorial on political reporting as well as a study in human and public relations. Even though it is not a biography or autobiography, it nonetheless reveals the innermost character trait of Folu Olamiti as a humanist, a philosopher imbued with the deepest candour and spiritual piety. It could well have been titled A Peep into Folu’s Mind.”

Veteran as well as practicing journalists are expected to grace the occasion.

Folu Olamiti, a fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), who worked for 32 years at the African Newspapers of Nigeria Plc, publishers of the Nigerian TRIBUNE titles, is a former Editor of the SUNDAY TRIBUNE, former Editor of the NIGERIAN TRIBUNE and former Executive Director of the TRIBUNE titles.

He is also former Media Consultant to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), a member of the International Press Institute, Fellow Institute for Governance and Leadership Studies in Africa (IGLSA) and immediate past Chairman of the Board of Management Advent Cable Network Nigeria Television (ACNNTV)

He reflected his rich tapestry of experience in all the places he had worked and all the posts he had held in the book that he’s launching on November 30, 2023.