MY CV

MY CV
AGBROKO, RUONA JENNIFER

Tel: +27 8355221627
E-mail: r.agbroko@yahoo.com
Gender: Female
State of Origin: Delta State, Nigeria
Date of Birth: February 19, 1982

INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED
University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (Journalism and Media Studies [In view])

University of Lagos, Nigeria (Bsc Microbiology 2009)

Federal Government Girls' College, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria (WASSCE 1998)

WORK EXPERIENCE/JOB DESCRIPTION

May 2009 till date

Senior Reporter, Nation Desk
NEXT Newspapers
235, Igbosere Road, Lagos Island
Generation and coverage of current affairs articles, news and feature stories, rewriting functions as well.

December 2008-April 2009
Freelance Speechwriter, Consultant and Media Officer, Guaranty Trust Bank

Commissioned for the writing of official speeches, remarks, press releases, business letters and general correspondence

March 2008-November 2008
Sub-Editor, Writer/Reporter
Thisday Newspapers
Thisday, The Saturday Newspaper
35, Creek Road, Apapa, Lagos-Nigeria

Weekly feature articles, topical cover stories and personality interviews. Weekly editing/proof-reading of the news pages

March 2007-February 2008
Columnist/Reporter
MADE Magazine

A steamy column tailored for a men’s magazine, examining the perennial battle of the sexes; personality interviews also.

April 2006-March 2007
Freelance Writer
ARRIVAL Magazine

Reporter in charge of Lifestyle pages for a travel magazine. Tourism-based feature interviews and articles, album reviews.


December 2006-March 2007
Contributing Writer
WHAT’S NEW: A Lagos City-Guide
(www.whatsnew.com.ng)
Towry Close, Off Idejo Street, VI, Lagos.

Articles reviewing bars/clubs and books; personality interviews and feature articles.

June 2004-February 2008
Thisday Newspapers
Columnist
35, Creek Road, Apapa, Lagos-Nigeria

Weekly columns on issues of national interest; politics, youth, education and the media industry, all with a humorous bent.

ALSO

Winner, Thomson Reuters/FitzGerald Prize for Young African Journalists (January 2010)

Winner, ‘Nigeria’s Young Journalist of the Year at ‘The Future Awards’ 2010 (February 2010)

Select-participant Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI) Future Leaders residential seminar (October 2009)

Select-participant at the Fidelity Bank Creative Writing Workshop facilitated by Chimamanda Adichie and Binyavanga Wainana (August 2007).

Select-participant at the BBC Radiophonics Workshop facilitated by Biyi Bandele (March 2008)


SELECTED LINKS
http://www.thefuturenigeria.com/nominees-list/
www.ruonah.blogspot.com

Please google “Ruona Agbroko” to view full content of most recent work.


Hobbies
Writing, reading and lip-synching to music from the 80s.

Strengths
An innate propensity to always effect or drive change; a fervent dislike of glass ceilings, the penchant to always break them and the tenacity required to adapt to one's peculiar environment whilst never losing sight of the goal.

Weaknesses
Chocolate.

REFEREES:

Mrs. Kadaria Ahmed
Managing Editor,
NEXT Newspapers
Plot 44, Oregun Road, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
+234 (0) 7034086022, kadaria.ahmed@234next.com


Mr. Paul Ibe

Editor, The Saturday Newspaper,
THISDAY Newspapers, Abuja
08037002899, 08055069570