It’s yet another great time to be in the know of some developments and facts about the Buhari-led-administration on:
Governance
Secessionists agitation
Insecurity
Human rights violation
and alot more…from the sharp lens of Hon. Diran Odeyemi, a seasoned journalist and political analyst.
Date: July 18th
Time: 5:30PM
Link to join: http://bit.ly/governmendvol5
Brief profile of Diran Odeyemi, culled from Diran Odeyemi Forum:
Prince Diran Odeyemi as an investigative journalist exposed the massive corruption in the system especially when the military took over the Administration of Osun State from the then civilian Governor, Alhaji Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke, Diran Odeyemi was banned from the State and was declared a security risk.
Apparently, destiny was at work for Diran Odeyemi who on resumption as a correspondent in Oyo State in 1993 and in the course of performing his duties met Otunba Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala (then an Assistant Commissioner of police) who later in December 2006 invited him from London and appointed him, first as Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy and later as Special Adviser on Special Duties, a position he holds till date.
It is pertinent to say that, Diran Odeyemi left Nigeria and relocated to UK with his family in the middle of General Sanni Abacha’s autocracy in 1997 where he continued to do what he love best; writing for various magazines and newspapers including websites. He was the Political Editor of the London-based “Focus Magazine” and a columnist with Nigeriaworld.com.
Diran Odeyemi also wrote a popular weekly column (“England Confidential”) for Ibadan-based “Sunday Tribune” He signed off the column on the 4th of September 2005, precisely six years after he took up the part-time job of Tribune Correspondent in UK.
Diran, in pursuit of knowledge also attended Lambert College, Brixton Hill SW2 London, where he studied Information Technology and Housing Management. He worked as Housing Officer for many Boroughs, the last of which was Richmond Churches Housing Trust in Hampton Surrey, United Kingdom.
Diran has won various awards based on his interesting articles and accurate reports and interviews with the low and mighty both in Nigeria and the UK. He was adjudged the ‘Best Reporter of the Year’ in 1994 by the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Oyo State chapter.
Again, in 1995 he won the “NUJ Award of Excellence and in 1996, because of his immense contribution to the progress of NUJ, his professional body, he was bestowed with “Oyo State NUJ Chairman’s Award”.