Ex-Editor-In-Chief Of Tribune, Olamiti, 20 Others Join GOCOP
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A one-time Editor-In-Chief of the Nigerian Tribune newspaper, Folu Olamiti and 20 other super Editors as well as renowned media managers have joined the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP). Olamiti was also until recently, Resident Media Consultant to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
They were inducted into the 65-member Guild at its 5th Annual General Meeting/National Conference held at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja Lagos middle of last week.
Others who were formally admitted into the Guild are Dr. Ise-Oluwa Ige, a 2016 PhD holder in Journalism from the prestigious University of Ibadan who is former Editor of Authority on Saturday newspaper and former Editorial Board Chairman and Managing Editor of Daily Times; former Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of the Sun Publishing Ghana Limited, and CNN African Journalist of the Year 2006, Shola Oshunkeye; a serial Award winner and one of Nigeria’s top investigative journalists, Dipo Kehinde and former Editor at Leadership newspaper and one-time spokesman for the Nigerian Minister of Science and Technology, Hassan Gimba
Also inducted were former Daily Editor of Newswatch newspaper and Communication teacher, Dele Fashomi as well as the following:
Ignatius Chukwu
Victoria Ibanga
Olumide Bajulaiye
Celestine Okafor
Ayo Olesin
Joan Chioma Obinagwam
Biodun Durojaiye
Tajudeen Abdulkareem
Sakibu Olokojobi
Dumebi IfeanyiChukwu
Oluwadare Mayowa
Francis Chukwudi
Danjuma Katsina.
Rose Moses, a gender advocate and editor who started her journalism career in 1990 as Staff Writer with the defunct Satellite Newspapers Limited before she joined Champion Newspapers in 1993 till 2011, having also served as Managing Editor and member, Editorial Board was also on the list.
GOCOP, which now boasts of 86 members, was incorporated in 2015 by 11 professional journalists with the mission to sanitise online media industry in the country.
GOCOP is highly recognised as an assemblage of professional online journalists in Nigeria by government at all levels and private corporate organisations.
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on Oct 12 2021. Filed under National.
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