O'seun Ogunseitan
Born (1960-03-31) March 31, 1960
Nigeria
NationalityNigerian
Citizenship Nigeria
OccupationJournalist

O’seun Ogunseitan (born 31 March 1960) is a Nigerian science and technology journalist, digital age media archivist and the pioneer of free e-learning software in Nigeria.[1] He co-authored the book tagged "The Making of the Nigerian Flagship: A Story of the Guardian, Lagos".[2] O'seun is the first Nigerian to digitise and archive Nigerian newspapers on Blu-ray Discs and copy-protected USB flash drives.[3]

Career

O'seun Ogunseitan who is a Zoology graduate from the University of Ibadan. He started his journalism career in 1984 when he joined The Guardian newspaper as a reporter.[4] He later became the first Science Editor. Between May 1984 and December 1988, he had handled the agriculture, science, technology and environment beats.[5] He is also an environmental issues journalist,[2] digital-age media archivist and publisher.[3]

While at The Guardian, he broke the story on "Gas leakage: Onne faces air pollution threat’ and ‘ Koko Toxic waste dump in Koko town";[6] He also broke the story of the first Water Hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes) infestations in Nigeria in early 1985.[7]

According to The Guardian, "Both Ogunseitan and Adinoyi-Ojo were among the 'stars that made The Guardian worth N1' published the following day (4 July 1988)"[6]

Years later, O'seun Ogunseitan became The Nation's Science and Technology Editor. At The Nation, he created the first Nigerian newspaper on the world's largest digital-age media disc, the Blu-ray disc, by digitizing and archiving two years of the hard (physical) copies of the newspaper, on a single digital disc as well as on the universally available USB flash drives and SD cards.[3]

Also while at The Nation, O'seun Ogunseitan created Fashola.exe. (Nigeria's first free e-learning software)[1] as reported by The Nation. Fashola.exe is an interactive Macromedia Flash-based Examination practice and tutorial software. It is an e-Learning tutorial software, with thousands of Questions and Answers for Secondary School students in Nigeria.[8]

Contributions

O’seun Ogunseitan was a contributor to the London-based New Internationalist (Wednesday is an Odd day in Lagos)[9] and the Panos Institute[10]

He is a co-author of "Blaming Others: Prejudice, Race and Worldwide AIDS" (PANOS) 1988.[11] [1]. He has been quoted extensively on the state of Science in Africa[12] and by Elsevier in 1990 in the book, The Discipline of Curiosity: Science in the World.[13]

Award

His story "Gas Leakage: Onne faces air pollution threat", earned him the first prize of the first-ever Nigerian Journalist of the Year Award in 1988. The award was called the UAC Merit Award for Journalists[4] The award was sponsored by the UAC of Nigeria and Unilever of UK.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "The Nation July 28, 2011". Issuu. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Epochal book on The Guardian for public presentation April 7". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 "Here comes The Nation Archive". Latest Nigeria News, Nigerian Newspapers, Politics. 25 February 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 The Guardian Newspaper. Nigeria (published 1987). 16 June 1987. pp. 1–2. ISSN 0189-5125.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ↑ Ogunseitan, O'seun. The Making of the Nigerian Flagship; A Story of the Guardian. Lagos, Nigeria. pp. 593 (Back Cover page). ISBN 978-978-990-210-1.
  6. 1 2 "Prospects, retrospection as The Guardian clocks 37". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 4 July 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  7. ↑ "Pest attack fears on farms in Lagos, Ogun". Latest Nigeria News, Nigerian Newspapers, Politics. 19 June 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  8. ↑ "The Nation June 15 2011". Issuu. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  9. ↑ "Tanked Up On Sugar". New Internationalist. 5 May 1989. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  10. ↑ Walgate, Robert (1990). Biotechnology and the third world: Miracle or Menace. London, UK.: Panos Institute. pp. 142–156. ISBN 1870670183.
  11. ↑ Sabatier, Renee (1988). Blaming Others: Race, Prejudice and Worldwide AIDS. Washington: Panos Institute. pp. 65–79. ISBN 0865711453.
  12. ↑ Subbiah, Arunachalam (April–May 1999). "Information Technology: What Does It Mean for Scientists and Scholars in the Developing World?". Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science. 25 (4): 21–24. doi:10.1002/bult.121.
  13. ↑ Groen, Janny (1990). Smit, E.; Eijswoogel, J. (eds.). The Discipline of Curiosity: Science in the World. Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 19–25. ISBN 0-444-88861-6.


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