Profile

Olatunji Ololade
Category: Environmental Reporting
Media House: The Nations Newspaper
Country: Nigeria

Olatunji Ololade, Associate Editor of The Nation newspaper, Lagos, Nigeria, is a multiple-award winning journalist, newspaper columnist and newsroom/media manager with extensive local and international experience. He has reported war, emergency/crisis situations across Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia. He is a recipient of 26 awards for journalism excellence including the 2018 Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) Prize for Nutrition Reporting, 2017 DAME Prize for Best Judicial Reporting and DAME/UNICEF Prize for Best Child friendly Reporting among others .He is a seasoned Investigative/Features Journalist, and Media/Communications Manager whose work attracts positive interventions to child health challenges, ravages of war, policy failure, child trafficking, environmental pollution, drug, organ and sex trafficking, and the tragic fate of Nigeria’s child brides to mention a few.