User:Samuel Olomu/sandbox


Samuel Olomu is a multi professional young individual who has multiple years of experience working with various companies, nationally and internationally.

On one hand, Samuel Olomu is a final year law student. On the other hand he is a writer, a journalist and a Global Changemaker who is passionate about the Sustainable Development Goals.

Samuel works as a Business -Technology Journalist with ITWeb [1], a Business-Technology Media Company based in Johannesburg, South Africa where he has reported [2] issues ranging from Startups, to Agritech, clean energy, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, digital economy, amongst other areas.

Samuel write-ups and commentaries on critical national and global issues has been featured in National and International publications[3] including top media organizations in Nigeria like the Punch Newspaper[4], The Guardian (Nigeria), BusinessDay (Nigeria), Sahara Reporters, The Cable, Tribune Newspaper, Premium Times and a host of other ends).

Samuel is currently the Director of Communications and strategy for Drive Forward Initiative, an International NGO based in Nigeria and the Netherlands with the mission of translating sustainable development goals 1, 2, 4, and 13 into impactful local action in unserved, underserved and vulnerable rural communities in Africa.

Samuel Olomu served as a fellow/campus director for the Millennium Campus Network (MCN), a semester-long leadership development program for undergraduate students across the world and he is also the Campus Director for Hult Prize Foundation, a $1M Dollars competition for undergraduates all over the world.

He is the founder and editor-in-chief for LASU Conscience[5], a media organization in the Lagos State University created to serve students of Lagos State University with credible and verifiable news contents.