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O’seun Ogunseitan

Oluwaseun Ogunseitan  is a Nigerian Science and Technology journalist and digital-age media archivist. He was the first Nigerian to create the country’s first free e-learning software and the first Nigerian to digitise and archive Nigerian newspapers on BluRay Discs and copy-protected USB Flash drives. ,

Early Life
O'seun Ogunseitan was born in Nigeria, on the 31st of March 1960. He attended Alafia Nursery and Primary School, the first private nursery school in Nigeria, from 1964-1966. For his Secondary School education, he attended Birch Freeman High School, Surulere, Lagos, from 1972-77 [1]. There he obtained his West African Secondary School Certificate. He later proceeded for his A-levels at the Polytechnic Ibadan(77-78). He got a B.Sc in Zoology from the University of Ibadan (79-84). In 1986, He proceeded on a Postgraduate Diploma Course in Mass Communication at the University of Lagos in 1986. He won a UAC/Unilever Scholarship for a post-graduate Journalism Course at the Thompson Advanced Journalism Foundation then in the U.K. He graduated from Thomson Advanced Journalism Institute, Regents Park, London in September 1987. Seun Ogunseitan was a Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Award nominee  and a US government-sponsored International Visitor  in 1988.

Career
O'seun Ogunseitan was The Guardian (Nigeria) newspaper’s first Science Editor. He had handled the Agriculture, Science, Technology and Environment beats, between May1984 and December 1988, an environmental issues journalist , digital-age media archivist and publisher.

While at The Guardian (Nigeria), h e broke the story on “Gas leakage: Onne faces air pollution threat’ and ‘ Koko Toxic waste dump in Koko town”;  He also broke the story of the first Water Hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes) infestations in Nigeria in the early 1985.

Years later, Seun Ogunseitan became the The Nation newspaper's Science and Technology Editor. At The Nation Newspaper he created the first Nigerian newspaper on the world's largest digital-age media disc, the BluRay disc by digitizing and archiving two years of the hard (physical) copies of the newspaper on a single digital disc and the universally available USB flash drives and SD cards.

Also while at The Nation Newspaper, O'seun Ogunseitan created Fashola.exe. (Nigeria’s first free e-learning software) as reported by The Nation newspaper. It is an interactive Macromedia Flash-based Examination practice and tutorial software. It is an e-Learning tutorial software with thousand of Questions and Answers for Secondary School students in Nigeria.

Contributions
O’seun Ogunseitan was a contributor to the London-based New Internationalist (Wednesday is an Odd day in Lagos) and the Panos Institute

He is a co-author of  Denial and AIDS in the Worlds  (PANOS) 1988 [1]. He has been quoted extensively on the state of Science in Africa and by Elsevier in 1990 in the book, The Discipline of Curiosity: Science in the World.