Leadership
Kayode Akintemi, Managing Director & Editor-in-Chief
Kayode Akintemi is a veteran Media Personality, Broadcast Journalist, TV Presenter, ICT Consultant and Senior Media Executive. With about 40 years of experience in broadcast journalism and consulting for publicand private media corporations, Kayode is an award-winning journalist who has inspired numerous journalists of the younger generation. Previously, he served as the ICT and Project Management Consultant to the London Borough of Hillingdon, and held leadership of several television stations.
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With a career spanning over 4 decades in Nigeria, Africa and Europe, Mr Akintemi is regarded as one of the most influential media personalities in Africa.
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Akintemi is a member of several professional organisations, including the Royal Television Society (RTS), the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) and the Radio Academy. He is also a member of the Society of Information Tech and Management (SOCITM) UK and a member of the Institute of Directors (IOD).
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In December 2023, Kayode Akintemi was announced as the Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of News Central Television. In this role, he continues to expand the frontiers of Nigerian journalism through a renewed focus on investigative and development journalism.