About the Initiator/Lead Facilitator

Bosede Olusola-Obasa is a seasoned journalist, who cut her teeth in journalism in 1997 as a student reporter with now defunct, Today’s Choice Magazine, Oregun, Lagos State. That was her opportunity to garner field experience while studying Journalism at the prestigious Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, Nigeria.

At different times while running this course, she worked at the Lagos State Ministry of Information, Alive Evening Newspaper and at PUNCH Newspaper in 2000, where she had the mandatory one-year Industrial Attachments as part of requirement for the award of the NIJ certificate.

Her intention was to go back to school after IT, but her senior colleagues, who found her to be conscientious at her duty, urged her to take up an employment opportunity with PUNCH, while running a part-time university programme. The offer seemed good to her and that started what became a 14-year beautiful career as a journalist at PUNCH Newspapers ((One of Nigeria’s leading newspapers between Jan. 10, 2000-March 11, 2014).

Working for PUNCH was actually a dream come true for her as she had always dreamt of it happening. Bosede’s exposure to various assignment within the journalism sphere, built her into a one-stop-shop of a blend of competence and character.

From being a newsroom liaison officer, facilitating seamless communication and copy flow between the head office and over 30 outstation correspondents across Nigeria, Bosede transited into being a full-fledge reporter in 2003.

Her life is, no doubt, a proof of how character and resilience can take a person from one career prospect ladder. Her virtue of hard work saw her through the Lagos State University, where she bagged a Degree in Public Relations and Advertising (Second Class Upper Division).

It is noteworthy to mention among other feats that in 2010, Bosede conceptualized, pioneered and nurtured to maturity, the first electricity consumer column in Nigeria – Power Talkback, published weekly in Saturday PUNCH.

Thanks to her then Editor, Mr. Obafemi Obadare, who invested trust in her capacity to bring ideas to fruition, as the column, soon became the toast of advertisers, operators, regulators and consumers of electricity in Nigeria.

Bosede has been exposed to the dignity of labour since her pre-university days so paving way for her to fit easily into the series of redeployments she got at PUNCH. A rounded and very bold journalist, she covered and left her marks on beats such as The Nigerian Capital Market, Special Interviews with Captains of industry, Heads of Professional Bodies and The Media bigwigs; and writing daunting Investigative, Human-Interest Features; Developmental Issue-based Features and Analysis.

It may interest you to know that she also wrote soft stuffs like: Marriage and Sex-related features, Agony Aunt Page (Pain in my Heart) and so on.

Bosede is well exposed to value-adding professional trainings among which are: Institute of Financial Planning, (Financial Investment and Planning Strategies 2005); Lagos Business School Pan-African University, (Sly Alakwe Economic and Business Programme 2006); BBC World Service Trust, (Budget Monitoring Project 2007); The Nigerian Stock Exchange (Opportunities, Threats of New Reporting Environment 2007); World Editors Forum (New Century Newsroom 2009); CNN Multichoice African Journalist of the Year Training 2012.

Apart from impact through her writings, her contributions to the media industry includes being an active member, Coalition for the Freedom of Information Bill (now an Act); three-time Panelist, IREX Washington DC, Media Sustainability Index for 2010, 2012 and 2014.

Currently, Bosede is the Initiator and Lead Facilitator of Royal Character Academy Limited, in following her passion and vision to develop and manage character of individuals, corporate bodies and nations.

She is married to Olusola A. Obasa and blessed with four lovely children.