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O’seun Ogunseitan
Oluwaseun Ogunseitan is a Nigerian Science and Technology journalist and digital-age media archivist.[1] He was the first Nigerian to create the country’s first free e-learning software[2] and the first Nigerian to digitise and archive Nigerian newspapers on BluRay Discs and copy-protected USB Flash drives. [3] ,
Early Life
[edit]O'seun Ogunseitan was born in Nigeria, on the 31st of March 1960. He attended Alafia Nursery and Primary School, the first private nursery school in Nigeria, from 1964-1966. [1]For his Secondary School education, he attended Birch Freeman High School, Surulere, Lagos, from 1972-77 [1]. [2] There he obtained his West African Secondary School Certificate. He later proceeded for his A-levels at the Polytechnic Ibadan(77-78). [3] He got a B.Sc in Zoology from the University of Ibadan (79-84). [4] In 1986, He proceeded on a Postgraduate Diploma Course in Mass Communication at the University of Lagos in 1986. He won a UAC/Unilever [5] Scholarship for a post-graduate Journalism Course at the Thompson Advanced Journalism Foundation[6] then in the U.K. He graduated from Thomson Advanced Journalism Institute, Regents Park, London in September 1987. Seun Ogunseitan was a Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Award nominee [7] and a US government-sponsored International Visitor [8] in 1988.
Career
[edit]O'seun Ogunseitan was The Guardian (Nigeria) newspaper’s first Science Editor. He had handled the Agriculture, Science, Technology and Environment beats, between May1984 and December 1988 [4], an environmental issues journalist [5], 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”; [6] He also broke the story of the first Water Hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes) infestations in Nigeria in the early 1985. [7]
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 BluRay 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. [8]
Also while at The Nation Newspaper, O'seun Ogunseitan created Fashola.exe. (Nigeria’s first free e-learning software)[9]as reported by The Nation newspaper. It is an interactive Macromedia Flash-based Examination practice and tutorial software. It is an e-Learning tutorial software with thousand of Questions and Answers for Secondary School students in Nigeria. [10]
Contributions
[edit]O’seun Ogunseitan was a contributor to the London-based New Internationalist (Wednesday is an Odd day in Lagos)[11]and the Panos Institute [12]
He is a co-author of ''Denial and AIDS in the Worlds'' (PANOS) 1988 [1]. He has been quoted extensively on the state of Science in Africa [13] and by Elsevier in 1990 in the book, The Discipline of Curiosity: Science in the World. [14]
- ^ "Here comes The Nation Archive". Latest Nigeria News, Nigerian Newspapers, Politics. 2014-02-25. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
- ^ 2832369. "The Nation July 28, 2011". Issuu. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
{{cite web}}:|last=has numeric name (help) - ^ a b "Here comes The Nation Archive". Latest Nigeria News, Nigerian Newspapers, Politics. 2014-02-25. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Prospects, retrospection as The Guardian clocks 37". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. 2020-07-04. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
- ^ "Pest attack fears on farms in Lagos, Ogun". Latest Nigeria News, Nigerian Newspapers, Politics. 2016-06-19. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
- ^ "Here comes The Nation Archive". Latest Nigeria News, Nigerian Newspapers, Politics. 2014-02-25. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
- ^ 2832369. "The Nation July 28, 2011". Issuu. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
{{cite web}}:|last=has numeric name (help) - ^ 2832369. "The Nation June 15 2011". Issuu. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
{{cite web}}:|last=has numeric name (help) - ^ "Tanked Up On Sugar". New Internationalist. 1989-05-05. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
- ^ "Error: 404 Category not found". panosnetwork.org. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
- ^ 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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ 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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