Olushola Olaniyan
Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc President
Lagos
Olaniyan Olushola Olushola is a financial management expert and former asset management consultant to the
First Bank of Nigeria, a bank founded in 1894 with a assets totaling NGN5.9 trillion (USD 153,908,000,000). Shola is the Chair,
Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc., and a member of the
WMF's Affiliations Committee. He has lead and managed over 50 Wikimedia programs/projects that focus on advocacy, community organising, capacity building, partnership-building and volunteers management. He is the producer of several Wikimedia advocacy radio show. The most prominent and longest running program is the
Wiki Women Radio Program produced as part of the
Wiki Loves Women project. He has featured in several notable national televisions to promote Wikimedia projects, notably;
BBC Channels TV,
TVC News &
PlusTV Africa. He has attended several Wikimedia conferences and chaired the
Wiki Indaba 2019. Olushola is a co-producer of the
New Readers Awareness Campaigns promotion videos. This advocacy work earned the team the 2018 African Excellence Awards, and the award ceremony took place in Dublin, Ireland. He's a co-coordinator of the
WPWP Campaign, and the project manager of the the
Visibility Project in which over 200 female journalists in East Africa were trained and mentored on how to contribute to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Olaniyan Olushola would be responsible for managing the entire project with the support of several volunteer members of the Wikimedia Nigeria Community.