Bimbo Oloyede

Bimbo Oloyede is a veteran Nigerian journalist and producer.[1] As a newscaster, she was a mainstay on NTA Network News from 1976 to 1980.[2]

Oloyede's father was M.E.K. Roberts, a former deputy inspector general of police, she spent much of her adolescent life in England where she studied drama and theatre arts. When she returned to Nigeria, she began as a production staff of the drama department at Lagos Television Station owned by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC). When NBC was reorganized into the Nigerian Television Authority, Oloyede was nominated as a newscaster for the Nigerian Television Authority's 9 pm Network News, her first broadcast was in April 1976. In 1980, she left NTA and co-founded a media company with her husband.[3]

Oloyede is in the initiator of the Women Optimum Development Foundation, an NGO that raises awareness about issues concerning young girls and women.

References
  1. "Bimbo Oloyede, others welcome Labule to Lekki". The Punch. November 17, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
  2. Deregulation of Broadcasting in Africa. Nigeria: National Broadcasting Commission. 1997. p. 207.
  3. "filexawards". filexawards.
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