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Mojeed, Al-Jazeera's Sami al-Hajj & NEXT's Yinka Oyegbile
Thank you very much for coming to the domain of a Nigerian journalist who started practicing journalism without realizing it. I was just a teenager who happened to fall in love with newspapers and writing early in life. But when my colleagues and I at the press club of our secondary school started publishing articles and cartoons on a wooden board, strategically fixed to a wall overlooking the assembly ground, we hadn’t the faintest idea that we were practising journalism of some sorts. We ruffled feathers, offended teachers and fellow students and were once tried by our school’s disciplinary committee after a teacher complained that we maligned him in an article.
That was 21 years ago and I have since gone on to acquire degrees in Communication and Journalism and a lot of great things have happened in my academic and professional life. I have worked for some of the best newspapers and magazines in Nigeria and done great stories that have highlighted the sufferings of the oppressed and impacted on probity and accountability in my country; won awards; served on the board of a top-flight continental-wide professional organization; participated in a transnational investigation that has earned commendation worldwide; won scholarships to study in Germany and the United States; served as resource person at local and international training programmes for journalists; travelled to some of the worst and best countries in the world; networked with some of the best and brightest journalists the world has to offer and admitted to some of the best professional bodies in our trade.
I remain committed to continuing to provide the Nigerian people with factual information that would assist them to make informed decisions and hold their leaders to account.
So, if there is any issue you believe I should investigate or write about, do contact me.
That was 21 years ago and I have since gone on to acquire degrees in Communication and Journalism and a lot of great things have happened in my academic and professional life. I have worked for some of the best newspapers and magazines in Nigeria and done great stories that have highlighted the sufferings of the oppressed and impacted on probity and accountability in my country; won awards; served on the board of a top-flight continental-wide professional organization; participated in a transnational investigation that has earned commendation worldwide; won scholarships to study in Germany and the United States; served as resource person at local and international training programmes for journalists; travelled to some of the worst and best countries in the world; networked with some of the best and brightest journalists the world has to offer and admitted to some of the best professional bodies in our trade.
I remain committed to continuing to provide the Nigerian people with factual information that would assist them to make informed decisions and hold their leaders to account.
So, if there is any issue you believe I should investigate or write about, do contact me.
