O'seun Ogunseitan

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Background[]

O'seun Ogunseitan
Born
Nigeria
NationalityNigeria
Citizenship Nigeria
OccupationJournalist

O’seun Ogunseitan 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 was The Guardian (Nigeria) newspaper's first Science Editor. Between May1984 and December 1988, he had handled the Agriculture, Science, Technology and Environment beats,.[4] He's also an environmental issues journalist,[2] digital-age media archivist and publisher.[3]

While at The Guardian (Nigeria), he broke the story on "Gas leakage: Onne faces air pollution threat’ and ‘ Koko Toxic waste dump in Koko town";[5] He also broke the story of the first Water Hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes) infestations in Nigeria in early 1985.[6]

According to The Guardian (Nigeria) newspaper, "Both Ogunseitan and Adinoyi-Ojo were among the 'stars that made The Guardian worth N1' published the following day (July 4, 1988)"[5]

Years later, Seun Ogunseitan became the The Nation newspaper's Science and Technology Editor. At The Nation Newspaper, 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 and the universally available USB flash drives and SD cards.[3]

Also while at The Nation Newspaper, O'seun Ogunseitan created Fashola.exe. (Nigeria's first free e-learning software)[1] as reported by The Nation newspaper. 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.[7]

Contributions[]

O’seun Ogunseitan was a contributor to the London-based New Internationalist (Wednesday is an Odd day in Lagos)[8] and the Panos Institute[9]

He is a co-author of "Blaming Others: Prejudice, Race and Worldwide AIDS" (PANOS) 1988.[10] [1]. He has been quoted extensively on the state of Science in Africa[11] and by Elsevier in 1990 in the book, The Discipline of Curiosity: Science in the World.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ a b 2832369. "The Nation July 28, 2011". Issuu. Retrieved 2021-06-13.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b "Epochal book on The Guardian for public presentation April 7". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 2020-12-17. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  3. ^ a b c "Here comes The Nation Archive". Latest Nigeria News, Nigerian Newspapers, Politics. 2014-02-25. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ a b "Prospects, retrospection as The Guardian clocks 37". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 2020-07-04. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  6. ^ "Pest attack fears on farms in Lagos, Ogun". Latest Nigeria News, Nigerian Newspapers, Politics. 2016-06-19. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  7. ^ 2832369. "The Nation June 15 2011". Issuu. Retrieved 2021-06-13.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "Tanked Up On Sugar". New Internationalist. 1989-05-05. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  9. ^ Walgate, Robert (1990). Biotechnology and the third world: Miracle or Menace. London, UK.: Panos Institute. pp. 142–156. ISBN 1870670183.
  10. ^ Sabatier, Renee (1988). Blaming Others: Race, Prejudice and Worldwide AIDS. Washington: Panos Institute. pp. 65–79. ISBN 0865711453.
  11. ^ 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: 21–24.
  12. ^ Groen, Janny (Smit, E. and Eijswoogel, J. (eds)) (1990). The Discipline of Curiosity: Science in the World. Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 19–25. ISBN 0-444-88861-6.


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