View from the Gallery, by Mahmud Jega
Mahmud Jega, currently Editor-in-Chief of 21st CENTURY CHRONICLE, is a former Editor of New Nigerian and a former Editor and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Daily Trust. He has been writing regular and irregular columns in various magazines and newspapers for 3 decades.
People, Politics & Policy, by Oladeinde Olawoyin
Oladeinde Olawoyin is a multiple award-winning journalist, critic and culture curator. He’s a First-Class graduate of the University of Ilorin where he studied Mass Communication.
He has been nominated for and won awards like the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Awards, Wole Soyinka Awards for Investigative Reporting, The Future Awards Africa, West Africa Media Excellence Award, Nigerian Breweries Awards, Sanlam Awards for Financial Journalism, PwC Awards for Business Reporting, among others.
In 2018, for his reporting of the global goal, he was also named ‘Global Goalkeeper’ by the Gates Foundation at an elaborate ceremony in South Africa.
Olawoyin writes about people at the intersection of politics and public policy.
The way I see it, by Catherine Agbo
Catherine Agbo was born in Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Journalism, two master degrees in International Relations and Strategic Studies, and Development Communication. She is a PhD student in Development Communication.
Agbo started her journalism career in 2007 as a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member at LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group Ltd, and rose to become an editor – editing all the four newspaper’s titles: LEADERSHIP Friday, LEADERSHIP Weekend, LEADERSHIP Sunday and LEADERSHIP.
She was promoted Editorial Director, a position she held till she voluntarily resigned from the organisation in 2017.
She joined Daily Asset Newspaper in 2018 as Executive Editor and was later promoted Deputy Editor-in-Chief.
Agbo is Deputy Editor at 21st CENTURY CHRONICLE.
This is your Business, by Emmanuel Otori
Emmanuel Otori is a corporate trainer, SME consultant and data analyst, with over eight years’ experience with 50-100 MSMEs and startups across the agric, FMCG, health, tech, manufacturing, fashion and creative sectors.
He, alongside, the business development team worked on the Growth and Employment (GEM) project of the World Bank and developed pitch decks for 30 businesses to secure grants for their respective projects being monitored by PwC and KPMG.
His capacity building training and consulting experience has cut across projects with organizations such as the World Bank, NNPC, Abuja Enterprise Agency, as a business development consultant, FCT Service Commission, Elizade Motors, Honda Motors and the Nigerian Navy.
He is an Innovate for Africa (IFA) fellow where his recent work helped to build a predictive model for Splitspot; a Boston- based apartment rental service.
He is the author of two books: ‘What Every Entrepreneur Should Know’ and ‘Achieving Peak Performance on Your Job.’
He is the CEO at Market Advantage Consulting and Abuja Data School.
Fragments, by Safiya I. Dantiye
Safiya I. Dantiye was born in Kano on December 2, 1965, Hajiya Dantiye hails from Kano Municipal Local Government Area, Kano State. She was educated at Budum Primary School, Maiduguri, Borno State from 1973-1975; Gidan Makama Primary School Kano from 1976-1977; Shekara Girls’ Boarding Primary School from 1977- 1979, and Women Teachers’ College Kano (WTC) from 1979-1984.
She obtained a National Diploma (OND) in Art and Design at the School of Technology, Kano State Polytechnic from 1986- 1988. After many years, she went to Bayero University Kano (BUK) and got a Bachelor of Arts in History/English from 1998-2003; and certificate on online course in Newsroom Management, DeepSouth Media U.K. January 29, 2011.
Hajiya Dantiye has done a lot of creative writing over the years. Her articles and poems were published in Triumph Newspaper, Kano; and in a book called ‘Pregnant Skies: anthology of 50 Nigerian poets’ edited by Professor Yusuf Adamu, published in 2003.
She was a member of Association of Nigerian Authors, (ANA) Kano.
She was a contributor in New Nigeria Newspaper as a columnist (Fragments) from 2002-2003.
In October 2003, Dantiye joined Daily Trust Newspaper as a Woman Editor, where she continued her Fragments column. She rose to become an Assistant Editor (Daily Trust), Deputy Editor (Sunday Trust), General Editor, and member of the Editorial Board before leaving in 2018.
She attended many workshops and conferences. Have passion on women and children’s issues and the family as a whole. She is married and has four children.
