Happy Cheers For Dream Daily Newspaper Publisher, Osigbesan @ 50
It is indeed 50 happy cheers for the Publisher and Editor-In-Chief, The Dream Daily Group of Newspapers, Dr. Osigbesan Sultan Luqman Osinowo, who clocked the Golden jubilee age on Sunday, 25th June, 2023.
The Management of The Dream Daily Newspaper celebrated their publisher in a press statement titled; “Osigbesan, Publisher, The Dream Daily Newspaper, Turns 50”, and described him as a serial entrepreneur.
Osigbesan, who bagged his doctorate degree on Wednesday, 10 May, 2023 following a successful oral defence of his thesis titled; “Canon Formation, Marginalisation and Resistance: A Study of Kolawole Ogungbesan at ABU, Zaria (1969-1979)”, hails from Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State and was born in Gombe, old Bauchi State where he attended Kamara Primary School, Gombe.
He later attended Saint Matthew’s Anglican Primary School, Ojowo, Ijebu Igbo Ogun State and thereafter proceeded to Molusi College, in the same town.
After completing his studies in Mass Communication at the then Ogun State Polytechnic (now Moshood Abiola University of Technology, Abeokuta, Ogun State), Dr Osigbesan proceeded to the University of Lagos (UNILAG) where he studied Russian in the Department of Modern European Languages.
From his compulsory National service year in Jos, the Plateau State capital, Osigbesan returned to UNILAG to bag a Master’s degree in Literature.
Differently acknowledged as an avid reader, writer, polemicist and researcher, Dr Osigbesan earned his Ph.D in Literature at the Department of English and Literary Studies, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria Kaduna State.
Osigbesan, who began his journalism career at The Guardian Newspapers, Lagos as a Sub-Editor, also worked at the Peoples Daily Newspaper and LEADERSHIP Newspaper where he was Deputy Editor, LEADERSHIP Weekend and a Member of the LEADERSHIP Editorial Board.
After his years of sojourning at LEADERSHIP Newspaper, he left the Abuja-based media outfit to make further forays into the journalism industry with the establishment of The Dream Daily Group of Newspapers.
Alongside his journalism career, Dr. Osigbesan founded M. Cicero & Co Limited, a think-tank, public communications, image construction, reputation management and media consultancy firm, based on a town-and-gown model with academics spread across universities in Nigeria and abroad.
He is happily married with children.
