Adeola Yusuf, Team Lead of Platforms Africa – a leading media group in the continent – is a highly cerebral development journalist with local, continental and global laurels and recognitions to show for it.
Arguably one of the most decorated energy journalists in the world, Adeola Yusuf, a fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation Scheme on illicit Finance Reporting in Africa, has won over seven nominations as the Energy Reporter of the Year Award by the Nigerian Media Merit Award (NMMA), going home with the gongs for the Year 2016; 2017 and 2019.
The first and only winner of the Nigeria Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) award for the most consistent journalist (2012), Adeola Yusuf, a fellow of Media for Oil Reforms (MFOR), is also the winner of the Chevron/Pan-Atlantic University’s award for the Best Report on Energy award (2018).
Adeola Yusuf, a PhD candidate at the School of Postgraduate studies, Lagos State University (LASU) – having gone through a successful educational sojourn across The Pan-Atlantic University, The University of Lagos, The Crescent University and THE Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), among others – lectures students of Mass Communication in both the Eko City Polytechnic and the Lagos State Polytechnic (now the Lagos State University of Science and Technology – LASUSTECH) both in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital.
An investigative journalist of repute, Adeola Yusuf has, at the global stage and within Nigeria, won many journalism awards, fellowships, bursaries and recognitions.
He is a winner of the African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) Bursary Award, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2016. He was in Nairobi, Kenya in 2017 as a winner of the Tax Justice Network Africa (TJN-A’s) Bursary on Tax evasion and illicit finance reporting in Africa.
Yusuf is also a two-time winner of slots in the Thomson Reuters Foundation Scheme on Illicit Trade and Finance Reporting in Africa held in Kampala, Uganda, 2015 and 2016.
He has, in line of duty as a journalist, travelled to some of the major cities of the World for conferences, seminars and Workshop. He was in London, United Kingdom (UK) for Gulf of Guinea (GoG) conference (2011). He has, on many occasions travelled to Houston, Texas, the acclaimed oil and gas capital of the World for Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). He also attended a conference of the Organiser of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) among others.
The pioneer Energy EDITOR of the New Telegraph Newspapers, Adeola Yusuf, has worked as the Energy Editor of Daily Independent newspapers.
His media career experience spanned the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the Ogun State Television (OGTV), Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation (Ogun Radio), The Monitor Newspaper, TheWEEK magazine, DAILYSUN Newspaper, Daily Independent, New Telegraph among others.
He is a sought-after financial and energy (oil, gas, power, renewables) policy analyst who is a regular face on News Central TV, Television Continental (TVC), Channels Television, Arise TV, Lagos Television, Ogun State TV, Radio One, Women Radio, as well as Radio Lagos.
As a Faculty with the Caritas Communications and NNPC Academy, Adeola Yusuf has trained top managment staff of major energy firms like the NNPC Limited, First E & P, Siemens, among others on Communication Crisis Management. Making Press Release Unputdownable for Journalist: Drafting And Writing; Endoscopy of A Journalist’s Mind During Crisis, and others. He is a sought-after mentor and career adviser/Speaker for many student-journalists at Mass Communication offering Universities and Polytechnics in Nigeria and across the world.
Adeola Yusuf is a member of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), The Association of Communication Scholars & Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN), Education Writers Association of Nigeria (EWAN), and the Nigerian Association of Energy Correspondents (NAEC).
Adeola Yusuf with prominent social media presence operates the following social media accounts/ handles; X (Twitter): @deolaYUSUF; Facebook: @adeolayusuf; Istagram: @adeolaomoyusuf; LinkedIn: Adeola Yusuf. He is the founder and one of the admins of Platforms Africa forum, a WhatsApp group with over 50 Professors and scholars of communication, editors of prominent newspapers across Africa, development sector experts in health, safety, agriculture, ICT and energy, among other resource persons, opinion leaders, and policies moulders from Africa and across the world.
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