Staff Reporter
Gulf Times
Total years of experience :21 years, 10 Months
- Reporting and writing news about local events and issues in Qatar.
- Sourcing for news and covering press conferences for publication.
- Re-writing press releases into news articles
- Conducting personality interviews and compiling articles for different columns in the Gulf Times
Administrative Work:
- In charge of finances and expenditure of the office.
- Over-seeing payment of workmen and sundry.
Supervisory Role:
- Supervising and coordinating the overall work output of all members of staff.
- Organising and coordinating capacity building workshops/trainings and empowerment programmes for women groups and Traders Organisations (TOs) and Producers Organisations (POs) in major markets in Nigeria.
Intellectual Work:
- Preparation and Writing of Proposals to International Funders on IFAnet’s ICT for Development Work in Nigeria and West Africa.
Editorial/IT Work:
- Editing of materials for publication in IFAnet Edition (ICT News Digest) using Microsoft Office Package such as: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Corel Draw, Adobe PageMaker, Photoshop and Internet Surfing and Browsing.
- Coverage of a regular beat on Nigerian National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), for publication in Daily Sketch newspaper throughout 1997.
- Representing Sketch newspaper in occasions for daily news coverage.
- Higher National Diploma - Upper Credit. - Research Associate on book titled “Afrobeat, Fela and the Imagined Continent”, Nigeria. - (1997).