ICONS: Nyaknnoabasi Osso 

• Nyaknno Osso is a librarian, journalist and founder of the Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation (BLERF) www.blerf.org.

• He graduated from the University of Ibadan (Library School) in 1975.

• Osso’s professional career encompasses library work at the University of Ibadan from 1971 to 1975 and a tenure in public service as the principal librarian and researcher at the Cross River State Newspapers Corporation from 1975 to 1984. Transitioning to Newswatch Magazine in 1984, he assumed the role of the inaugural senior management staff member along with the late Dele Giwa and Ray Ekpu.

• Between 1999 and 2007, Osso served as the Special Assistant to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Library, Research, and Documentation. In 2007, at the end of the administration of his principal, he assumed the role of the Executive Secretary and Project Coordinator of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Foundation (OOPLF).

• Dr Nyaknnoabasi Osso conceived a collaborative initiative with the former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, to introduce the first presidential library in Africa, the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library.

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