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Sulola Bilikisu Remi

BACKGROUND

'Remi Sulola is a seasoned sport journalist with many years of experience in reporting youth and sports development in and out of Nigeria. Born in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial hub, she attended Obalende primary school and Girls secondary Grammar school. She is also a product of the prestigous University of Lagos, Lagos where she holds a Diploma and Bachelor's degree in Mass Communication. Born to Alhaji S.B. Sulola,an astute Policeman and Alhaja S.O.Sulola,a business woman,both backgrounds shaped her childhood.

CAREER

Remi Sulola, 'Kisu' as she is fondly called has over the years carved a niche for herself with her write-ups. Remi has worked at leading national newspapers, including Sports Focus, SportsDay, The Nation Newspaper and most recently leads the sports desk at Nigeria’s Independent Online Newspaper, TheCable. At the 2018 FIFA world cup, her question to FIFA President, Gianni Infantino about Nigeria's football federation (NFF) power tussle at the time went viral and became the subject for discuss for weeks.

Through her career, she has covered three editions of the world's most prestigious football tournament, The FIFA World Cup - S'Africa 2010, Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018.She was also at the World Athletic championship in London in 2017. Remi has also covered Women's world cup in Canada, Two Nations Cup (SA & Egypt), Two U17 world cups (UAE & Chile), and other competitions in Cameroon, Swaziland, Lesotho, S'Africa, Senegal, Egypt, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, UAE, Chile, India, France, Canada, UK, and USA.Soft spoken and altruistic, she was the media officer of the Super Falcons to the women's cup of Nations in Cameroon in 2016.

She is the media coordinator on the board of the Nigeria Karate Federation (NKF). Other national assignments have followed and most recently, she was appointed by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)as a member of the committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding the unfortunate demise of Martins Chineme in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).

HOBBIES

Her hobbies include jogging,traveling and singing. Writing tops the list though.