Career & Expertise

Prior to joining DAAR Communications Limited in 1996, Oluwatosin Dokpesi was at Clapper Board Television as a presenter.

Mrs. Dokpesi, who started her media career in the early 1990s with Clapper Board TV in Lagos, joined DAAR Communications PLC as a youth corps member and grew to make a name for herself with her incisive interviews as one of the pioneer anchors of the flagship breakfast show Kakaaki, and the evening News Hour. 

She was listed among the top 25 powerful women journalists in Nigeria by the Women in Journalism Africa.

She had her first degree at the University of Lagos, where she studied Zoology and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree (BSc.) and later studied Mass Communication as a post-graduate degree.

Skills Utilisation

Mrs Dokpesi is a manager of people and has the capacity of bringing out the best in a journalist. She is also a television host. She can comfortably talk about how female journalists can excel in their places of work and how they can be good television hosts.