Segun osoba biography
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Olusegun Osoba
Nigerian politician and journalist (born 1939)
ChiefOlusegun Osoba (born 15 July 1939) is a Nigerian journalist and politician who served twice as governor of Ogun State first from 1992 to 1993 during the Nigerian Third Republic and then from 1999 to 2003.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Olusegun Osoba was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Babatunde Osoba.[2] Osoba attended a series of professional courses after high school graduation from Methodist Boys' High School, Lagos. He obtained a diploma in journalism at the University of Lagos[3] and went for one-year course in the United Kingdom on the scholarship of the Commonwealth Press Union in 1967. In 1969, he was studying in Bloomington, USA at Indiana University's department of journalism. In 1974 he won the Nieman Fellowship award for journalism for years of postgraduate study at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is the first Nigerian to have won this presti
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Olusegun Osoba
Olusegun Osoba, is the journalist and politician who twice became the governor of Ogun state. Osoba was born in 1941 and educated at Methodist Boys’ High School, Lagos between 1956 and 1960. Osoba obtained a diploma on journalism from the University of Lagos in 1965 and also did journalism courses at Indiana University Bloomington. In his career as a reporter, he came to the public’s consciousness with the assassination of Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa in the first coup of 1966. Being his greatest scoop, Osoba had discovered the dead body of the prime minister who was dumped in the jungle through a tipoff by one of his contacts.
Osoba had endeared himself to his boss, Babatunde Jose, during the Murtala Mohammed coup of 1975. This would later lead to Jose appointing him as Editor of the Daily Times. He would later rise to become the managing director of the newspaper company, revamping and bringing it back to profitability through austere measures. Osoba was
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Dr Segun Osoba was a close friend and associate of Dr Bala Usman over many years. When both of them were appointed bygd Gen. Murtala Mohammed to be members of the Constitutional Drafting Committee in 1976, they objected to the direction of the discussions of the majority members, and together they wrote the Minority Report and Draft Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1976.
This was first published in 2019 and presented in Lagos to wide acclaim. Dr. Osoba was born in Ijebu-Ode, South-West Nigeria, on the 9th January 1935. He attended Ijebu-Ode Grammar School (1947-53); Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Ibadan (1954-56), University College Ibadan, (1956-1959), and Moscow State University (1963-67). He taught at Ijebu-Ode Grammar School (1959-63). He taught and conducted research in the Department of History, O.A.U., Ile- Ife (1967-91). His special area of research interest is the social and intellectual history of modern Nigeria. Dr. Osoba’s work at Ife i