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QASIM AKINRETI's BIONOTE.

Qasim Olalere Akinreti, Ph.D is a Multimedia Journalist, trainer and Head, Audio Visual &Graphics ,Digital Media Voice of Nigeria ,VON. He is also an Adjunct faculty ,Nigerian Institute of Journalism ,NIJ Lagos, Nigeria. A seasoned international journalist whose media experience as a Reporter / Researcher and Assistant Director News Producer, Public Affairs Analysts has taken him across six continents to cover, ECOWAS Summits,(Togo, Benin Republic) EU-Africa Summit,(Portugal), UNCTAD Conference,(Ghana), Highway Africa Conferences(South Africa ) and Hajj (Saudi Arabia) for Voice of Nigeria, Oxfam and Democracy Radio ,Senegal and Muslim Television Ahmadiyya ,MTA in London. Presently, he is a volunteer Coordinator for MTA Africa Nigeria Studios.

Dr. Akinreti obtained a B.Ed. in Special Education from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and two Masters degrees (MA Online Journalism and MPhil in Mass Communication from the Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom Kingdom in 2003 and Babcock University in 2014 . He bagged his Ph.D in Mass Communication from Babcock University Ilishan Remo ,Ogun State in 2017.

Dr. Akinreti ’s expertise is in Broadcast Journalism, Media Studies, Multimedia and New Media Trends with over fifteen (15 ) publications in local and international journals. A media unionist, Dr Akinreti was a former Chairman Nigeria Union of Journalists, Member The Nigerian Guild of Editors ,NGE, International Press Institute ,IPI, and Commonwealth Journalists Association, CBA. Dr. Akinreti, the current Co- Coordinator of Sub Saharan Africa Research Regional Hub of the Journalism Education and Trauma Research Group (JETREG), a global research body based in the Lincoln University, United Kingdom.

He is also a member of the African Council on Communication Education (ACCE), Nigeria Chapter and the Association of Communication Scholars and Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN) including being a Fellow of the Poynter Institute of Media Studies, US.