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Seyi Oduyela
SEYI ODUYELA is a tested, award-winning investigative journalist, and is the
Managing Editor of AfricanaNews.COM and the Chief Executive/ManagingEditor of African Interest
Newspaper.
 He is the Coordinator/Project director of Investigative Reporters Association
of Nigeria. He is a member of several professional associations including the
Investigative Reporters and Editors, National Association of Black Journalists,
NABJ and the National Association of African Journalists, NAAJ. He just
completed a Graduate program in Communication at the Trinity University,
Washington, D.C.
He started journalism from Nigeria, at the Ibadan Grammar School where he was
the President of the Press Club. At the University of Ibadan, he was the deputy
Editor-In-Chief of Curious magazine.
He joined the services of Tempo Magazine, in 1998 as a reporter/researcher. The
magazine, a radical pro democracy publication was set up in the heady days of
Nigeria's battle with military tyranny.
He became the Defense Correspondent in 1999. In 2000 he became the first person
to win the Brig-Gen. Buba Marwa Prize for the Nigerian Media Merit Award as the
defense Reporter of the year 2000-2001. He left Tempo in 2001 for the Anchor on
Sunday, and later to Sunday Punch as Senior Correspondent in March 2002. He is
the Nigeria Editor of Vernacular media an online news provider.
He is also a contributing writer to Focus magazine (London), Eagle View Press
(Stamford, Connecticut, USA, African Abroad, New York, New York. He writes for a
Nigerian online news provider, (www.nigeriaworld.com/seyioduyela) and Dawodu.com.
He was in South Africa in August 2002 to present a paper at an international
journalism conference organized by Highway Africa(www.highwayafrica.org.za/2002/dayone/oluseyioduyela).
As an investigative reporter, his report that exposed the embezzlement of
Soldiers' transfer allowance by the military authorities won him an award. The
report forced the Chief of Defense Staff to refund the allowance.
It was also his interview with Lt. Gen. Victor Malu (Military Pact: We will
resist the Americans, Tempo March 8 2001) that led to Malu's forced retirement
in April 2001. General Malu was a former Chief of Army Staff in Nigeria from
1999-2001.
Religious Studies Scholar by training. He is a product of the prestigious
University of Ibadan, where he obtained B.A (Hon) in Religious Studies (1990)
and M.A in Old Testament (1992).
He worked as a lecturer at the Tai Solarin College of Education, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun
State from 1992-2000.
As a lecturer, he has many academic journal articles to his credit, conference
and seminar papers. He was also a contributor to a book written and published on
the Late Tai Solarin titled: Tai Solarin's views on Religion: A critique Tai
Solarin- The Making of a Humanist, Edited by A.B. Okanlawon & O.T. Fasanmi,
Ijebu- Ode: Admass Publishing Co. Ltd (2000).
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