Career & Expertise

Olatunji is a journalist by training, with interests in education and communication for development. She graduated from the University of Ibadan (UI) with a master’s degree in Communication Arts and has served in several capacities in the private and public sectors.

In more than 20 years of journalism practice, 10 of which was as Education Editor of This Day Newspapers, she traversed the world covering education and presenting papers, including six editions of the biennial General Conference of UNESCO in Paris, Commonwealth of Learning conferences in Edinburgh and the United Kingdom, International Conference on Education, Geneva, International Conference against Sexual Exploitation of Children in Japan, Conference of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), Washington DC, and several others across 15 countries in Africa.

She won the first ever African Education Journalist of the Year Award, organised by the Association for Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), in 2002 and won it for the second time in 2005, among other awards and commendations by her employers. 

She joined NUC in 2012 as a Chief Information Officer and has been the Communications Officer at NUC’s Project Implementation Unit (PIU) of the World Bank-supported Africa Centres of Excellence (ACE) Project since 2015. 

Skills Utilisation

She will be a good source in areas of government policies on education.