Fade Ogunro Explained

Fade Ogunro is an on-air-personality, radio and TV presenter, film producer, and fashion designer. She is the founder and CEO of Bookings Africa, an online talent service provider in Africa. She is a native of Ekiti State in South West Nigeria. She speaks English, French and Spanish. [1] [2]

Education and career

Fade Ogunro left Nigeria to the United Kingdom with her parents when she was 7 years old.[3] She studied journalism and creative writing in Roehampton University, UK.[4] After her university education, she worked for Google in the UK. She came back to Nigeria in 2010 and started working for Radio Continental the same year. She has worked for PM News, Guardian Newspaper, 234 Next and Beat 99.9 FM radio.[1] She hosts radio shows on weekends in the Beat 99.9FM. She is also a co-host of a TV show called Glam Report.[2] She resigned from Beat 99.9 FM radio in 2016.[5]

In April 2019, she launched a new app called Bookings Africa. The app enables participants to search for individuals with different talents, reaches these people, get the prices for their services and compare such prices with other service providers. The app has over 14 talent categories and is available in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa[6] [7] [8] [9] She is the co-owner and head of production in FilmFactoryNG a video production company. She also runs her own fashion show called Fashion Friday with Fade.[1] [2] She is the first African woman to sit on the Global Campaign Board of Cherie Blair Foundation For Women, a foundation that helps discover women entrepreneurs in low and middle income countries.[10]

Ogunro is a former ballerina. She is sponsoring Anthony Mmesoma Madu, an 11 year old ballerina whose video went viral in 2020.[11]

Personal life

Ogunro is the daughter of Sesan Ogunro Snr, one of the pioneer Advertising practitioners in Nigeria who was murdered in 2013.[12] She is sister to video director Sesan Ogunro and they run production company, Film Factory together.[13]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site:
    1. SCHICKWOMAN: FADE OGUNRO IS THE MEDIAPRENEUR TAKING OVER AFRICA
    . December 26, 2017.
  2. Web site: AML's Nigerian Women in Entertainment: (Video) Fade Ogunro Shares Insight on her Video Production Company, Film Factory. December 9, 2013.
  3. Web site: ICYMI: E-banking faces threat as customers lose huge savings to fraudsters – Punch Newspapers . Punch Newspapers – The most widely read newspaper in Nigeria . 2020-08-14.
  4. Web site: "I Have Turned 30...It’s Time For Me To Focus More On My Company!" - Fade Ogunro On The Real Reason She Left Radio. January 20, 2016. May 24, 2020. November 19, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211119140650/https://woman.ng/2016/01/i-have-turned-30-its-time-for-me-to-focus-more-on-my-company-fade-ogunro-on-the-real-reason-she-left-radio/. dead.
  5. Web site: Ex OAP explains why she left radio. January 12, 2016. Pulse Nigeria.
  6. Web site: Awodipe . Tobi . Fade Ogunro to revolutionise young entrepreneurs, pan-african marketplace with Bookings Africa - Nigeria and World News . The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News . 2019-11-16 . 2020-08-14 . 2020-10-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201001012906/https://guardian.ng/guardian-woman/fade-ogunro-to-revolutionise-young-entrepreneurs-pan-african-marketplace-with-bookings-africa-2/ . dead .
  7. Web site: Fade Ogunro Launches ‘Bookings Africa ’ for Talents Sourcing. October 25, 2019.
  8. Web site: Dayo Adeyelure And Fade Ogunro To Share Insights At NECLive 7. April 21, 2019. May 24, 2020. November 19, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211119132119/https://idafrica.ng/dayo-adeyelure-and-fade-ogunro-to-share-insights-at-neclive-7/. dead.
  9. Web site: Fade Ogunro Biography - Age. April 19, 2016.
  10. Web site: 2021-02-18. Cherie Blair Foundation appoints Ogunro on its global campaign board. 2021-11-25. The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. en-US.
  11. News: Brara. Noor. 2020-08-19. In Lagos, a Homegrown Ballet Academy Leaps Into the Spotlight. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-11-25. 0362-4331.
  12. Web site: 2013-12-23. Ekiti Broadcasting Service boss, Ogunro killed in Lagos Premium Times Nigeria. 2021-11-25. en-GB.
  13. News: Eze . Mary Jane . Ex-Beat FM OAP, Fade Ogunro Speaks On How She Managed 'Two Husbands' At A Time . 14 September 2020 . The Nigerian Voice . 12 January 2016.

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