Friday 12 July 2013

MEET OUR FACILITATORS



Our Facilitators









Murphy Ajibade Alabi is a dynamic writer who has had years and wealth of experience in journalism. He has been a columnist and senior staff writer for the Complete Sports Magazine (before it became a daily paper). He as well has been a columnist for Today’s Romance Magazine, Weekly Link Magazine, the defunct Westerner Magazine, a correspondent for Daily Sun Newspaper, a correspondent for Leadership Newspaper and also a senior entertainment correspondent for Nigerian Compass.
Murphy will be bringing his wealth of experience to the table during this writers’ course

Alabi Olamide Victor is a prolific writer who has featured in different forms of writing with prominent newspapers like The Guardian Newspapers, The Compass Newspapers, Today’s Romance, to mention a few.
He is presently the Administrative Secretary of The Renewal Team, International, an organisation designed to mentor, teach, inspire and motivate.
He equally serves as the Editor in Chief of the Publishing Arm of the Organisation. An office he has occupied for more than 7 years.
A journalist by profession; a poet, innately and creatively, a speaker, an author and a life coach.
Presently, he works with Infrastructure Quarterly as a Columnist and Research Analyst, a specialized magazine for the construction industry, which equally also serves as the Magazine Arm of Nile Support Services, the official consultancy firm for the Federation of Construction Industry.

Alabi Olamide Victor, who is fondly called, ‘Asirvo’, has developed his writing career over the years in poetry, script writing, novels to name a few, this was while he was in the tertiary institution, Osun State Polytechnic, Iree with the group, ‘Soft Mega Bugs’, a group that was well known for its objectivity. This earned him a reputation and brought him to the enviable office of the Feature Editor of the school’s Student Union Government Editorial Board (SUGEB).

Of recent, he published one of his numerous yet-to-be published books, ‘Defining Sex and You’ a book distributed for free in schools and juvenile homes across Nigeria. Coupled with this, ‘Asirvo’ equally speaks in conferences, seminars and workshops.
He equally has a teaching experience that spans over 7 years in secondary schools 

Olaniyi Opeyemi Success is the Project Manager of The Writers’ Community Course, a journalist by profession, a Life Coach, Writer, Media practitioner, a Prolific Speaker and Entrepreneur of International repute. He is equally the Chief Executive Officer of The Renewal Team International, an organisation designed to mentor, teach, inspire and motivate. He also writes for the Magazine arm of the organisation.
A graduate of Mass Communication from the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, he has had media experience with media houses like Lagos Television, LTV, The Guardian Newspapers, The Pillar (a publication of The Renewal Team International). He is equally an Associate Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management.
Success developed is flair for writing while he was in the tertiary institution, Osun State Polytechnic, Iree with the group, ‘Soft Mega Bugs’, a group that was well known for its objectivity. It was on this note that he became the Associate Editor of the school’s Student Union Government Editorial Board (SUGEB).
Success is also into professional photography for corporate organisations, events and models.

Adeleke Toye, one of the lecturers in The Writers’ Community Course is prolific writer and editor with vast experience in the print and broadcast industry. He is a TV writer, scriptwriter and advert producer as worked with cable TV stations like DCLM etc.
Toye is a graduate of Mass Communication from the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree and Lagos State University respectively. He is equally a certified Public Relations Practitioner and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR). Also, he has to his credentials an Honors Certificate in Community Development from Global Health University USA.
He is equally a member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).
Toye has equally had a stint in lecturing with Adeniran College of Education Oto Ijanikin AOCOED (Satellite Campus) as an English Language lecturer.

Jegede Semilore Mordecai  has developed his writing career over the years in poetry, script writing, novels to name a few, this was while he was in the tertiary institution, Osun State Polytechnic, Iree with the group, ‘Soft Mega Bugs’, a group that was well known for its objectivity.
A graduate of Mass Communication from the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree and the Nigerian Institute of Journalism. He has had major stints with media houses like, ‘Eko FM and The Guardian Newspapers.
Semilore will be bringing his wealth of experience to the table during this writers’ course

Michael Ayotunde Osowe is a graduate of Mass Communication from the Osun State Polytechnic Iree. A journalist who has built vast experience with his stints with newspaper-houses like the African Newspapers of Nigeria, Publishers of Tribune title, Vintage Press Limited, Publishers of Nation Newspaper, Western Publishing Company, Publishers of Nigerian Compass Newspaper, where he rose through the ranks to become Correspondent. He has also worked with Sudan Media Limited, Publishers of Total Education Newspaper (A weekly tabloid).
He has participated in several workshops and seminars among which is the CNN-MultiChoice Media Workshop and a lot host of others.

 

Thursday 11 July 2013

ONE OF OUR FACILITATORS


Alabi Olamide Victor is a prolific writer who has featured in different forms of writing with prominent newspapers like The Guardian Newspapers, The Compass Newspapers, Today’s Romance, to mention a few.
He is presently the Administrative Secretary of The Renewal Team, International, an organisation designed to mentor, teach, inspire and motivate.
He equally serves as the Editor in Chief of the Publishing Arm of the Organisation. An office he has occupied for more than 7 years.
A journalist by profession; a poet, innately and creatively, a speaker, an author and a life coach.
Presently, he works with Infrastructure Quarterly as a Columnist and Research Analyst, a specialized magazine for the construction industry, which equally is also the Magazine Arm of Nile Support Services, the official consultancy firm for the Federation of Construction Industry.

Alabi Olamide Victor, who is fondly called, ‘Asirvo’, has developed his writing career over the years in poetry, script writing, novels to name a few, this was while he was in the tertiary institution, Osun State Polytechnic, Iree with the group, ‘Soft Mega Bugs’, a group that was well known for its objectivity. This earned him a reputation and brought him to the enviable office of the Feature Editor of the school’s Student Union Government Editorial Board (SUGEB).

Of recent, he published one of his numerous yet-to-be published books, ‘Defining Sex and You’ a book distributed for free in schools and juvenile homes across Nigeria. Coupled with this, ‘Asirvo’ equally speaks in conferences, seminars and workshops.
He equally has a teaching experience that spans over 7 years in secondary schools.

Wednesday 10 July 2013

ONE OF OUR MANY FACILITATORS


Michael Ayotunde Osowe is a graduate of Mass Communication from the Osun State Polytechnic Iree. A journalist who has built vast experience with his stints with newspaper-houses like the African Newspapers of Nigeria, Publishers of Tribune title, Vintage Press Limited, Publishers of Nation Newspaper, Western Publishing Company, Publishers of Nigerian Compass Newspaper, where he rose through the ranks to become Correspondent. He has also worked with Sudan Media Limited, Publishers of Total Education Newspaper (A weekly tabloid).

He has participated in several workshops and seminars among which is the CNN-MultiChoice Media Workshop and a lot host of others.

 

ONE OF OUR MANY FACILITATORS


Jegede Semilore Mordecai  has developed his writing career over the years in poetry, script writing, novels to name a few, this was while he was in the tertiary institution, Osun State Polytechnic, Iree with the group, ‘Soft Mega Bugs’, a group that was well known for its objectivity.

A graduate of Mass Communication from the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree and the Nigerian Institute of Journalism. He has had major stints with media houses like, Eko FM' and The Guardian Newspapers.

Semilore will be bringing his wealth of experience to the table during this writers’ course

 

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Writing this piece does not just excite me, it arouses bubbles both in my heart and belly that I just cannot but express my exhilaration. It is like remembering my favourite songs and having goose pimples lavished all over my skin. This piece affords me the opportunity to go through a momentary déjàvu of my days in secondary school and I can still re-create and re-paint this scene-it is so funny that the expressions of people into our lives, (the words they speak) often times do go a long way in forming our lives, save we are able to live beyond the indelible impressions of their words in our minds.

‘Like a replayed scene of an episodic film, it was one of the week days during school hours, that I had approached class-mate in my noble Arts Department. I was in SS2 then-this young class-mate of mine was reputed to be the best Literature in Student and I had written a poem waiting for this young boy to affirm me-I staggered towards his desk that day, hoping that I can find a positive affirmation from the reputed ‘Literature in English Legend’. It was like my life, my confidence, and the essence of who I was depended on whatever he ‘says’. I got to his desk, shuddering, stammering and lisping some few words: ‘…this is my poem, will you please rate me?’ my heart raced faster like I had just finished running some miles. I kept praying that he will affirm me-did he? He paused for a moment and gave a sneer. Sincerely, I had actually written the ‘best of me’. Sweats dropped profusely from my armpits, soaking my white shirt as I anticipated my fate from his words. (I had concluded that he had the final say on all of my academic life).

He muttered some few words, sighing incessantly as he read the last lines of my poem. His words: ‘you really don’t have the potential to write poems (re-phrased though), this is not a poem, and you really need to learn a lot, your writings are so weak’. God! I shrunk, I melted, I died inside… a death of failure… it was the death of my own esteem of myself. I believed him, taking his words hook line-sinker and I almost concluded that I cannot become the poet I wanted to be. I was wrapped in that smallness for years until…

Thank God I did not believe him forever, because that same poem I wrote in the year 2002 that he wrote off was published in a Sunday Guardian in the year 2008, and many other writings of mine have found their way into many other papers- 6 years after he uttered those words, my poem still had relevance to find a place in a major newspaper in Nigeria-today I have written a book that stands close in comparison with Bishop TD Jakes books(pastor of the Potter’s House, teacher, life-coach, in Dallas, Texas, USA), with four other books ready to be published.

My point?

What people say to you does not matter much like what you say to yourself. The most successful people on earth today are mostly from the other side of the rope, the other side of the river-bank. They are the ones people believe to be the least-likely to succeed, but somehow they make it though and become reputed for greatness, excellence and distinction.

Oh! You say, ‘Asirvo! I don’t believe you!’ no quagmire, do you know that noble laureate, prof. Wole Soyinka finished with a pass, same as late Gani Fawehinmi (SAN)? That Barack  Obama was raised by a single parent with the help of his grandpa? Farah Gray from a poor slum in the city of Chicago became a millionaire at the age of 14 and found his way to having an office in Wall Street as the youngest black?

Ask the legendary Albert Einstein if I lie.

Do not let me finish my life story just join us 2nd of August and learn how myself and other speakers built our writing skills.

Great, successful and brilliant people are not born, they are made-a genius is a product of consistent hard work and faith in one-self.

Have fun!

 

 

 

 

 

Murphy Ajibade Alabi is a dynamic writer who has had years and wealth of experience in journalism. He has been a columnist and senior staff writer for the Complete Sports Magazine (before it became a daily paper). He as well has been a columnist for Today’s Romance Magazine, Weekly Link Magazine, the defunct Westerner Magazine, a correspondent for Daily Sun Newspaper, a correspondent for Leadership Newspaper and also a senior entertainment correspondent for Nigerian Compass.

Murphy will be bringing his wealth of experience to the table during this writers’ course


Adeleke Toye, one of the lecturers in The Writers’ Community Course is prolific writer and editor with vast experience in the print and broadcast industry. He is a TV writer, scriptwriter and advert producer as worked with cable TV stations like DCLM etc.
Toye is a graduate of Mass Communication from the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree and Lagos State University respectively. He is equally a certified Public Relations Practitioner and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR). Also, he has to his credentials an Honors Certificate in Community Development from Global Health University USA.
He is equally a member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA).
oye has equally had a stint in lecturing with Adeniran College of Education Oto Ijanikin AOCOED (Satellite Campus) as an English Language lecturer

ONE OF OUR MANY FACILITATORS

Olaniyi Opeyemi Success is the Project Manager of The Writers’ Community Course, a journalist by profession, a Life Coach, Writer, Media practitioner, a Prolific Speaker and Entrepreneur of International repute. He is equally the Chief Executive Officer of The Renewal Team International, an organisation designed to mentor, teach, inspire and motivate. He also writes for the Magazine arm of the organisation.

A graduate of Mass Communication from the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, he has had media experience with media houses like Lagos Television, LTV, The Guardian Newspapers, The Pillar (a publication of The Renewal Team International). He is equally an Associate Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management.

Success developed is flair for writing while he was in the tertiary institution, Osun State Polytechnic, Iree with the group, ‘Soft Mega Bugs’, a group that was well known for its objectivity. It was on this note that he became the Associate Editor of the school’s Student Union Government Editorial Board (SUGEB).

Success is also into professional photography for corporate organisations, events and models.