By Ayọ Arowojolu
Seun Oyedeji, aka Jewel, is a well known name in Nigeria’s broadcasting terrain. Her television face combined with her sweet voice is the toast of countless viewers of Silverbird TV where she is the National News Coordinator.
For real, Seun, a beautiful, graceful personality with panache and class, embodies very high values and wonderful qualities of the quintessential Nigerian broadcaster in the way she has carried herself in the almost three decades of her professional career.
Today, Saturday 24th May 2025 is her day of showing as she is pooling together the creme de la creme in the society in organizing a symposium tagged “The Encounter” in Lagos to draw concern about the wobbling and upsetting state of education in Nigeria.
The theme on the front burner of discourse is Deploying ICT Towards Educational Development with a strong poser: Is The Impact of ICT on Education Development Overrated?
Venue is the Eko FM Multipurpose Hall, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos, attracting three distinguished personalities as Panelists/Guest Speakers to steer the discourse and with ace broadcaster, Mallam Danladi Bako as Special Guest of Honour.
The Panelists are Dr Peter Ogudoro, Dr Abisogun K. Durosinmi-etti and Mrs Yinka Ogunde.
The symposium, The Encounter, aims to analyze the impact of the deployment of technology on examination administration in the country amidst the unresolved backlashes of the recent crisis trailing the examination conducted by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board(JAMB).
Also likely to draw attention is the planned introduction of Computer-based Tests for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination for candidates.
To add pep to the symposium, students from five secondary schools would mount the podium to debate key issues involved aftermath of which lunch would be served, closing with party and merriment commemorating Seun’s special day.
In an interview, Seun Oyedeji who started broadcasting as a teenager back those days at OGBC and later Star FM and MITV, expressed gratitude to God and appreciation to the several great broadcast personalities who have helped her to become better.
She said: “I am grateful for life, supportive and loving family, great friends and associates and especially for the opportunity to rewrite my story, all to the glory of God.
“Broadcasting caught my fancy since my childhood days. I remember drawing inspiration from watching the likes of late Tokunbo Àjàyí, Sienne Allwell-Brown and Ruth Benamesia Opia and Mallam Danladi Bako. I remember saying to myself that one day, Seun Oyedeji would be counted among them”.
