Olayinka Oyegbile is a deputy editor at The Nation (Nigeria).
He is an award-winning journalist who has won many international fellowships among which are the prestigious Knight Fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is also a 2003 winner of the World Health Organization (WHO) fellowship in Public Health and the Steve Biko (2001) Scholars’ Award of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has a first degree in Mass Communications and a Masters in Theatre Arts and is presently pursuing a PhD in Communication Studies.
Oyegbile has reported extensively on the evils of tobacco consumption in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.
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