About the Author
Dayo Oketola is a multiple award-winning journalist and an accomplished newspaper editor. He became Editor of The PUNCH, Nigeria’s most widely read newspaper, in 2022. He also served as the Editor of PUNCH Weekend Titles (Saturday PUNCH and Sunday PUNCH) for three years. That was the first time the 51-year-old media giant merged two titles under one editor. He was at some point the News Editor and Group Business Editor of The PUNCH.
With about two decades of dedicated service in the Nigerian media space, his distinguished reporting career left footprints in business and economy, ICT, energy, labour, general news, climate change, agriculture, and social inclusion.
His outstanding performance earned him several local and international awards, fellowships, and recognition. He is a five-time winner of the Nigeria Media Merit Award, including the MTN Prize for Telecoms Reporter of the Year in 2012 and Editor of the Year in 2023. Under him, the PUNCH also won Newspaper of the Year. He has also won the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence and the Continental Zimeo Excellence in Media Awards in South Africa and Kenya. He was a finalist at the CNN Multichoice African Journalist Awards in Johannesburg in 2016.
He is an alumnus of the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists -Research and Investigation under the US Government-sponsored International Visitors Leadership Programme and the Media in Conflict Seminar in Herzliya, Israel. In 2019, he attended the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C. He has attended several international conferences in the US, UK, France, The Netherlands, Taiwan, Brazil, Rwanda, Morocco and South Africa.
He is a member of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered), and the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations. He is currently the President of the International Visitors Leadership Programme Alumni Association of the United States Consulate.
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