Ex-NAN boss, Remi Oyo, dies

Former Managing Director of News Agency of Nigeria, Mrs Oluremi Oyo, has died.
Her husband, Vincent Oyo, confirmed her death.
Born in 1952 in Ilorin, Kwara state, Oyo began her formal education in St. James’ Catholic Primary School
Ilorin and then St. Louis Secondary School, Bompai, Kano.
She earned a Diploma in mass communication with distinction from the University of Lagos, a post
graduate Diploma in international relations at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs and a Master’s
degree in International relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K.
She began her career as a cub reporter in the then Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (now Federal Radio
Corporation of Nigeria) rising to the position of Principal Editor before moving to the News Agency of
Nigeria where she served as Editor and Pioneer Head of the quality control desk.
She worked for more than a decade as Nigeria Bureau chief, for the Inter Press Service Global News
Agency, ranked as one of the top 10 news agencies in the world.
Oluremi served from 2003 as the Senior Special Assistant to President Olusegun Obasanjo for media and
publicity, the first woman to be appointed to such a position.
After four years of distinguished service, she was appointed in 2007 as the Managing Director of the News
Agency of Nigeria where she has led a massive service delivery improvement initiative to bring the Agency
into the digital age.

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