admin Your highly valued Crude Reports Magazine is pleased to announce the commencement of a new column that will feature discussions on contemporary issues that can move Nigeria forward.
The columnist, a seasoned and veteran journalist, 
Yemi Oyeyemi will begin to write on these issues as from the January 2025 edition of the magazine.
Below is his profile:
Chief Oluremi O. Oyeyemi a.k.a. Remi Oyeyemi was born to late Mrs. Maria Sabiola Oyeyemi and late Pa Ezekiel Oyeyemi Fatunagun.
He began his elementary education at the United Anglican Primary School, Iwara, Osun State in 1966 and ended it at St. Michael’s Primary School, Ibadan. Oyo State. He attended Cherubim & Seraphim High School, Ilesa, and Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan before proceeding to the great University of Ife for his tertiary education.
Oyeyemi received a combined honours Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science from this great University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, Master’s of Education Counseling from Wilmington University, Delaware, Post-Masters Diploma in Applied Behavioural Analysis from Florida Devereux University, Florida, USA. He also has a Diploma in Journalism from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos.
A consummate journalist, Chief Remi Oyeyemi has been involved in writing in many capacities for more than three decades as a reporter, senior reporter, correspondent, senior correspondent, Bureau Chief, Editor, Columnist and Guest Columnist.
He was the founding Assistant Editor of the P.M. News, Lagos while he wrote for The News and TEMPO magazines in Lagos. He also wrote for; AM News, Lagos, Nigerian Tribune and Daily Sketch, both in Ibadan; Triumph, Kano; Bencorps, Makurdi and has contributed OP-ED materials to The Guardian, The Punch, The Vanguard, The Sun, The Daily Times and The Premium Times, Nigeria and several online news web sites including Nigeria village square, Saharareporters, Nigeria world, Modern Ghana, Nigerian voice, newspotng, ikengachronicles and many more. In the US he has written for the Southeast Missourian as a Guest Columnist and the California based Desert Post Weekly as well as a string of African publications in the American North-East. He was the founding member and Editor of the New York based pro-democracy medium Democrat-In-Exile and a founding member of African Abroad weekly in New York.
Oyeyemi was the Assistant National Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (1992-1993); Founding Secretary, League of Democratic Journalists (1995) and Chairman, Oyo State Sports Writers Association’s Disciplinary Committee (1995). He is member of League of Veteran Journalists, Nigeria and National Association of African Journalists, USA.
Oyeyemi has maintained some columns during his career: Politics Nigeriana in PM News, which was a thorn in the flesh of the Sani Abacha dictatorship. Echoes of Freedom in the Saturday Tribune in Nigeria and Remi Oyeyemi’s Open Mind on Nigeriaworld.com.
Oyeyemi was a media resource consultant to many advertising and public relation companies between 1990 and 1995. In 1990 he was Special Assistant and Press Secretary to the Hon. Commissioner, Oyo State Ministry of Commerce and Industry and in 1991 in the same position to the Hon. Commissioner, Oyo State Ministry of Information and Culture. Between 1991 and 1993, Oyeyemi was the Director of Media Affairs (West) for the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Presidential Campaign and later Personal Press Assistant to then Presidential Aspirant for the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Nigerian Vice President.
He was declared wanted by the Abacha regime that was desperate to host the World Cup Soccer competition in 1995 following his Exclusive Report on the outbreak of Typhoid in Ibadan in TEMPO magazine. He fled Nigeria few days after the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995 to the United States. He became the foreign correspondent to the Nigerian Tribune reporting from the North-East America and the United Nations. His exclusive political stories from New York made the Nigerian Tribune best-selling newspaper in Nigeria between 1995 and 1998.
Oyeyemi testified against the Abacha dictatorship at the New York City Council hearing on human rights abuse late in 1995 and in May 1996, in the US Senate at the Senator Kassenbaum inspired hearings in Washington D.C. on the need for sanctions on the Abacha Regime. He later served as the Media Affairs Director of the New York based United Committee to Save Nigeria.
In 1989, Oyeyemi was commended for professionalism by UAC of Nigeria PLC, Gani Fawehinmi’s Legal Chambers and The May Consultants Limited. He was named the Best Investigative Journalist by Oyo State Council of NUJ, 1990, and in 1991 was presented the Group Study Exchange Award to the USA by the Rotary International. He was listed in “WHO IS WHO” of the NIGERIA MEDIA WORLD in 1993. He is also listed among WHO IS WHO IN NIGERIA byBlerf’s Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation.In 1998, he was honoured as one of the Outstanding Poets of the Year by the US National Library of Poetry and was named WRITER OF THE YEAR in 2003 by the New York based US-AFRICAN EYE magazine.
Oyeyemi who writes poems as a hobby, has been published in several anthologies including Amidst the Splendor, Tranquil Rains of Summer and America at the Millennium. He is the author of Songs from Exile, a poetic commentary on the Nigerian political events of the 1990s. Oyeyemi is a member of several professional organizations.
As a part-time businessman, Oyeyemi who was the first Secretary of Council for Economic Development of African Descent (USA),has been the Chief Consultant of Mount Zion Mental and Behavioral Health Services, a Director of Mount Zion Properties, and Vice-President of Zion Wheels all based in Delaware in the USA. He founded ROC Communications Nigeria Limited and is a director of the newly founded Peerless Group Nigeria Limited. Oyeyemi who is the Managing Partner of SA&B Global Resources, USA Inc, Chairman of REMBOD Global Resources USA Inc. is also the Executive Vice Chairman of the Namibian based SA&B Global Resource (PTY) Limited.
Oyeyemi has been conferred with a couple of traditional chieftaincy titles. He is the Bobagunwa of Imobi-Ijesa and the Aare Jagunmolu of Omo Kingdom.
He is married to Chief (Mrs.) Ajike Oluwatoyin Oyeyemi, the Yeye Bobagunwa of Imobi – Ijesa and Yere Aare Jagunmolu of Omo Kingdom.
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