Keep in touch with meI'm using Intch to connect with new people. Use this link to open chat with me via Intch app
Work Background
MineTradeFractional CMO
Jun. 2025
WimbartSenior Account Manager
Feb. 2022 - Dec. 2024
VFD Group PlcPublic Relations and Communication Manager
Oct. 2020 - Jul. 2021Lagos, NigeriaI worked with the Marketing and Management teams to ensure communication with internal and external stakeholders were professional, succinct, adequate and effective for all seven (7) businesses in my portfolio. I managed press relations and events ensuring the businesses and their spokespersons were strategically exposed and positively positioned in their industries and in the media. I also consistently tracked brand reputation via sentiment analysis in the media and monitored policy changes to communicate brand position per industry per time while developing a Reputation Management and Crisis Communication policy for the Group of companies.
africapracticePublic Affairs & Corporate Communications Consultant
Apr. 2020 - Sep. 2020As a consultant on Strategic Communications, Advocacy and Public Affairs, I led an advocacy project on the digital financial inclusion of Nigeria's poorest for a leading global foundation that engineered a public policy of inclusion at the height of the Covid pandemic. I worked with the media, NGO founders, thought leaders, for firsthand knowledge of the issues and designed communications and events to achieve programme objectives. My role also included providing intelligence and analysis of West Africa's political and digital economy for a global tech company.
Guardian Newspaper NigeriaHead Of Operations, Digital
Jan. 2018 - Mar. 2020Lagos, NigeriaI led a team of 30+ full-time staff to manage and curate the digital footprints of The Guardian (newspaper) Nigeria. The newsroom churned out content for the website, social, Youtube and TV growing average monthly pageviews and unique visitors by 100% and 150% respectively. On business development, I initiated and serviced high-profile clients and partners including Facebook, Google, AFP, and Reuters, securing a $250,000 grant from YouTube for Innovation. I was responsible for editorial, operational, commercial and product innovations at Guardian Digital with an ultimate objective to position The Guardian Nigeria brand as the go-to most credible and innovative Nigerian news brand in Africa. As a senior management staff, I was responsible for securing the continued goodwill of the executives to invest and support a digital repositioning for the legacy national newspaper.
Ventra Media GroupDigital Editorial Manager
Jan. 2017 - Dec. 2017As DEM at Ventra, I managed The Guardian Nigeria newspapers - Ventra’s biggest account. This meant that I provided oversight for the digital content team and provided content development services for The Guardian website - www.guardian.ng - as well as coordinated social media representation. My job involved converting client content briefs into actionable plans and leading the content team to deliver same for TV, social, website and print. I developed and executed promotion strategies across all of our media channels using tech tools, leveraging relationships and working with a team of graphic artists, growth experts, social media experts, media buying and selling specialists, video editors and copy writers. I also shopped for value-adding projects to partner/collaborate with. Via digital marketing, we sought brands and created exclusive content which we disseminated across The Guardian platforms. We ensured that The Guardian in print was successfully integrated into the digital channels, making the website and social media channels a richer extension of the parent print.
SBM MediaManaging Editor
Sep. 2016 - Jan. 2018Lagos, NigeriaAt SBM Media, I manage the inflow and control quality of projects delivered. I write documentary scripts, ghostwrite columns, rewrite and proofread blogs and edit manuscripts as the final gatekeeper of books and everything text.
LN MediaFreelance Writer, Editor and Communication consultant
Sep. 2015 - Sep. 2016Lagos, NigeriaI provided editorial advice and direction for blogs, websites and magazines. I also used to ghostwrite speeches and columns.
Enough Is Enough NigeriaMedia Manager
Jan. 2014 - Jan. 2014I generated media content as well as co-ordinated and planned media placement.
Audio Visual FirstClient Service Executive
Oct. 2012 - Aug. 2015Opebi, Ikeja, Lagos. NigeriaAVF is a production company involved in live, line and recorded TV productions. Here I contribute to production, handle Client Service, as well as act as Personal Assistant to the M.D
Self-employedPolicy Consultant, Marketing Communication & Media
Mar. 2012 - Apr. 2022I bring my sixteen years of combined cross-functional work experience in media, communications, marketing, B2B consulting, policy development and advocacy, to bear in: * Media training & Newsroom operations consultancy * Program design and implementation for businesses * Project management including public relations * Manuscript development & refinement and * Multimedia production of global stories.
Nigerian Entertainment TodayContributor
Jan. 2010 - Nov. 2015Ikeja, Lagos, NigeriaI contribute via Features, occasional reports and Opinion articles published on this foremost entertainment site in Nigeria which also has a print copy.
AlphaBeta Business MagazineWriter
Jan. 2010 - Jan. 2010Wrote Features and edited articles for the magazine
Hugo MagazineSub-Editor/Writer
Jan. 2008 - Jan. 2008Ikeja, LagosA periodic lifestyle Glossary published by Huldah Lynns in the year stated.
Callivision NetworkAssistant Producer
Dec. 2007 - May. 2008Ikeja, Lagos, NigeriaAn Independent Tv content provider who double as organisers of Nigeria's pioneer Music Video Awards - NMVA. I helped produce LiveBeats - Callivision's TV programme shown on 25 local stations around the country. My daily duties included script voice-over, programme scripting, reportage and coverage of red-carpet events and occasional filming. For the annual NMVA, I'm a part of the organising family.
Vanguard newspaperReporter/Columnist
Jun. 2006 - Feb. 2011Vanguard Avenue, Kirikiri Road, Lagos, NigeriaI reported events, interviewed personalities, investigated claims, wrote features, critiqued music, celebrities and government and also filled out my weekly full-page column.
Intch is a Professional Networking App for the Future of WorkSee more people like Lolade on Intch
300k+ people
130+ countries
AI matching
Get Intch if you'd like to
1791323 people
16
Virtual Assistant & Events Manager @ Self Employed
22
1:2:1 LSA
16
Executive Assistant
76513 people
15
Business Founder and Creative @ Life by the Blonde
15
COO
15
Incoming consultant @ L.E.K. Consulting