Dapo is currently the publisher of Nigeria’s leading investigative news platform, Premium Times.[www.premiumtimesng.com] Previous to this, he served as policy director and chief of staff at Nigeria’s leading anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.  His work as editor during the years of military dictatorship in Nigeria earned him the 1995 International Editor of the Year Award of the World Press Review; the 1996 PEN Center (West) Freedom to Write Award; and the Press Freedom Award (1996) of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) New York.  In 2017, the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) awarded him its Press Freedom award; that same year, the Nigeria Institute of Journalists [NIJ] conferred him a fellowship award; and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence, DAME, announced him as recipient of its Lifetime Award.   Back in 1991 he was founding editor of the now defunct Nigeria Journalism Quarterly (NJQ), published by the Nigerian Union of Journalists. He is currently the Vice President of the transnational investigative body for West Africa headquartered in Burkina Faso, CENOZO. In 1995, he founded the well regarded Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism [www.wscij.org] to help construct a civic mechanism, through the media, to hold political and economic power accountable in the country. Ten years after, he co-founded the first Investigative journalism newsroom in Nigeria which is perhaps the most influential and most trusted fact-based news platform in the country today, [premiumtimesng.com]. In 2014 he also co-founded West Africa’s first journalism innovation and development centre, [www.ptcij.org]. He was educated at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, the Washington College of Law of the American University in Washington DC, and the University of Oxford, in the UK.