SUB-ASSISTANT EDITOR - Premium Times Services Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
(2025-04)
- Edits reporters' copies for clarity, accuracy, depth, appeal, contextualisation, coherence and analytical rigour.
- Fact-checks figures and claims to avert inaccuracy and fake news.
- Provides editorial assistance to the business editor and feedback on reporters' work.
- Analyses earnings reports and corporate releases of companies listed on the Nigerian Exchange Limited.
- Tracks deals in mergers & acquisitions to bring investors and readers up to speed with developments in the investment banking space.
- Reports capital raise programmes through fixed income instruments including bonds and commercial papers.
- Writes agenda-setting deep dives on the Nigerian financial sector, some of which have inspired national macroeconomic reforms.
- Conducts investigative reporting that follows the money and other wrongdoings in corporate Nigeria.
- Plays a leading role and performs sub-editing tasks that have helped deliver five editions of PREMIUM TIMES Banking Report.
- Prepares weekly stock recommendation with a view to providing guidance for informed decisions by investors.
- Tracks the Eurobond market to track market reactions of Nigeria's sovereign debts to macroeconomic variables like monetary policy rate, inflation, exchange rate volatility, etc.
- Reports credit rating agencies' assessment of Nigeria's creditworthiness and the default risk some of its notes carry.
FINANCIAL JOURNALIST - Premium Times Services Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
(2021-01 - 2025-04)
- Wrote daily stock market reports, helping draw new readers to a news outlet with 1.9 million Twitter followers and nearly 2 million subscribers.
- Tracked and anatomised funding round activities of start-ups.
- Wrote content that helped fintechs and start-ups penetrate new markets and drive customer retention.
- Wrote enterprise stories and deep dives on the inclusive economy and the financial services sector.
- Developed contacts with analysts and industry experts.
- Conducted investigative reporting that followed the money and other wrongdoings in corporate Nigeria.
- Edited copies of junior reporters to achieve clarity, conciseness, grammatical accuracy, balance and appropriate contextualisation.
FINANCIAL NEWS CONTRIBUTOR - Allen Dreyfus
(2025-01)
- Writes breaking news on Nigerian treasury bill and bond auctions.
- Tracks activities in the Nigerian energy sector including the oil market and the award of refinery licences to bring investors up to speed with latest developments.
- Analyses macro-economic data like inflation, purchasing manager index and business confidence reports, focusing on their implications for the fixed-income market.
BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT - Ripples Nigeria Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
(2019-11 - 2021-01)
- Curated topical business news with a nuanced style and analytical rigor that gave the resulting reports a competitive edge over the outlets they were sourced from.
- Anatomised statistical economic reports including GDP, purchasing manager index, consumer price index and consumer expectations survey reports in a way that audiences' interest formed the crux of the stories.
- Wrote articles of macroeconomic significance including inflation, monetary policies and the political economy with a "bottom line upfront" approach so as to gain readers' interest at first glance.
FINANCIAL ANALYST/CONTENT WRITER - Nairametrics Financial Advocates Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
(2019-05 - 2019-08)
- Tailored business news copies to SEO specifications and in-house style.
- Reported live corporate events at the Nigerian Exchange to feed readers with the latest trends and dynamics of the stick market.
- Wrote features centring on crisis points in the political economy.
- Analysed companies' quarterly, half-year and annual financial reports.
SENIOR COPYWRITER - Culture Communications Limited - Lagos, Nigeria
(2017-09 - 2018-06)
- Generated ideas and innovative marketing communication strategies for clients via advertising and experiential platforms.
- Edited, revised and proofread the weekly sports betting publication of Culture Communications Limited.
CUSTOMER SERVICE OFFICER/RELATIONSHIP MANAGER - First Bank of Nigeria Plc - Lagos, Nigeria
(2009-09 - 2013-08)
- Played a key role in the team that helped grow branch's credit portfolio by more than twofold past the N1 billion mark in less than four years.
- Processed and set up the bulk of the credit desk's loans on banking software and helped in restructuring problem loans when the credit quality of its portfolio was at one of its worst record levels.
- Prepared business reports comprising credit approval memorandum, desk's weekly credit and deposit mobilisation reports as well as intra-organisational correspondence.
