Oluremi Oyo
Felicia Oluwaremilekun Oyo | |
|---|---|
| Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria | |
| In office July 2007 – 2013 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 October 1952 Ilorin Kwara State, Nigeria |
| Died | 1 October 2014 (aged 61) United Kingdom |
Oluremi Oyoⓘ (12 October 1952 – 1 October 2014) was a Nigerian journalist.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Remi Oyo was born on 12 October 1952 in Ilorin, Kwara State, North Central Nigeria. She attended the University of Lagos earning a bachelor's degree in mass communication and journalism.[2] She got a postgraduate diploma in international relations from the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs. She further obtained a master's degree in international relations at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom.
Career
[edit]She was appointed Senior Special Assistant/Spokesperson of Media and Publicity to then Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2003, and was reinstated in 2007. Her career in journalism began as a reporter in 1973 with the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC). She then joined News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) as a desk editor in 1981, but eventually its principal editor.
From NAN, she joined the Inter Press Service (IPS) as the Nigerian Bureau Chief and later rose to become IPS West African Bureau Chief.
She first served as the Secretary to the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE). Later, she was elected by her professional colleagues as the first woman to be the President of the NGE.[3] She eventually served two consecutive terms from 1999 to 2003.
Shortly after her time with the former president, she was announced as the managing director of the News Agency of Nigeria.[4]
Military dictator Abdulsalami Abubakar appointed her to the 1999 Constitution Drafting Committee. In 2006 she was awarded a national OON by President Olusegun Obasanjo. She later received awards from the National Council of Catholic Women Organisation of Nigeria, the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) and the Nigerian Institute of Peace Administrators.[5]
Personal life and death
[edit]She was married to Vincent Oyo, a journalist, and they had two children.[6][1]
Oyo died on 1 October 2014 at 62 years of age[1] of cancer while receiving treatment in the United Kingdom,[7][8][9][10] and is buried at the Yaba Cemetery, Lagos.[11][12]
Awards
[edit]- Oyo was awarded the national award of Officer of the Order of Niger, OON, in 2006.[10]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Utebor, Simon (3 August 2019). "Mum was the force that held us together – Oluremi Oyo's son". The Punch. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ↑ "Jonathan, Obasanjo, Mark, others extol Remi Oyo's Virtues, Mourn her". This Day. Archived from the original on 11 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
- ↑ "First Female President of Nigerian Guild of Editors Remi Oyo Passes Away". 2 October 2014.
- ↑ "Nigeria: Remi Oyo Gets Second Term as News Agency MD". allafrica.com. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
- ↑ "Nigeria: Eke - Remi Oyo: Rare Gem of Our Time". allafrica.com. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
- ↑ "Remi Oyo, Biography". 21 February 2020. Archived from the original on 29 October 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ↑ "Ex- presidential aide Remi Oyo dies at 61". The Nation. Lagos, Nigeria. 3 October 2014.
- ↑ "Former Managing Director of NAN. Oyo Is Dead ‹International Centre for Investigative Reporting". 2 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ siteadmin (2 October 2014). "Former President Obasanjo's spokesperson, Oyo, Dies At 62 | Sahara Reporters". Sahara Reporters. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- 1 2 "Former President Obasanjo's spokesperson, Oyo, Dies At 62". Sahara Reporters. New York City, United States. 2 October 2014.
- ↑ "Remi Oyo buried". The Nation. Lagos, Nigeria. 24 October 2014.
- ↑ "Tears, tributes as Oyo is buried in Lagos". The Sun. Lagos, Nigeria. 25 October 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- 1952 births
- 2014 deaths
- Yoruba journalists
- Nigerian newspaper journalists
- People from Ilorin
- Deaths from cancer in the United Kingdom
- Officers of the Order of the Niger
- University of Lagos alumni
- Alumni of the University of Kent
- Burials at Yaba Cemetery
- Nigerian women journalists
- 20th-century journalists
- 21st-century Nigerian journalists