Why we invited the distinguished Mediaprenuer and Team Lead of Platforms Africa as a guest speaker on “Digital Media Entrepreneurship: Striking a Balance between Fun and Fiscal Fecundity.” AMACOS President and Secretary, Comr. Shopeyin Okikiola Adam, and Comr. Liady Sodiq Damilare, give details
Award-wining digital Mediaprenuer, Dr. Adeola Yusuf, is to mentor over 4,000 students of Mass Communication at the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY) Abeokuta.
The Association of Mass Communication Students (AMACOS) of the Nigeria’s frontline polytechnic in Communication study, which announced this in a letter to Platforms Africa, maintained that Dr. Adeola Yusuf, who is the Team Lead of Platforms Africa, was nvited as a guest lecturer at an academic symposium themed, “Digital Media Entrepreneurship: Striking a Balance between Fun and Fiscal Fecundity.”
The letter signed by AMACOS President and Secretary, Comr. Shopeyin Okikiola Adam, and Comr. Liady Sodiq Damilare respectively reads; “The Association of Mass Communication Students (AMACOS) is honored to invite you as our Guest Speaker for the upcoming Academic Symposium. With over 4000 students under our department’s purview, your expertise would be a valuable addition to our gathering.”
Adeola Yusuf, a sought-after guest lecturer at mass communication-offering universities and Polytechnics in Nigeria, is an alumnus of the MAPOLY where he graduated as the overall best student in both National Diploma (ND) and higher national diploma (HND) programmes. He was also a former president of AMACOS.
“The symposium’s theme, “Digital Media Entrepreneurship: Striking a Balance between Fun and Fiscal Fecundity.” resonates with your area of specialization,” thr letter with which AMACOS invited him read.
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It continued; “Your insights would undoubtedly enlighten our students on the intricacies of digital media entrepreneurship and the importance of balancing creativity with financial sustainability.
“Venue of the event coming up on Monday, August 25, 2025, is the Main Hall, Mass Communication Department, Ojere, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
“We believe your presence would inspire and motivate our students to explore the vast opportunities in digital media entrepreneurship. Your contribution to the symposium would be invaluable, and we look forward to your acceptance.
Man Adeola Yusuf, Ph.D
Adeola Yusuf, a multiple award-winning journalist and researcher, is a fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation (scheme) on Illicit Finance Reporting in Africa.
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 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 Best Report on Energy award (2018).
Adeola Yusuf, a Ph.D. graduate 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 Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 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 areas like Communication Crisis Management. Making Press Release Unputdownable for Journalists: 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.
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