Education Profile of Henry Dele Alake

Henry Dele Alake born 6 October 1956 in Ekiti State, Nigeria. He is a Nigerian journalist, activist, politician and technocrat.

Alake had his primary education at Surulere Baptist Primary School, Surulere, in Lagos from 1961 to 1967. He later moved to Christ’s School Ado Ekiti, where he earned the West African School Certificate. He obtained the General Certificate of Education in 1974 while pursuing his Higher School Certificate course at the Igbobi College, Yaba, Lagos, between 1973 and 1975. Later in 1975, he enrolled in the Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree programme in Political Science at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos and graduated in 1978. He later returned to the same university and obtained a master’s degree in Mass Communications in 1981.

Alake began his journalism career during his Service year as a corper at Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation (OGBC). He later secured a job with the Lagos State Broadcasting Corporation (LSBC) as Senior Sub-Editor in which capacity he served till 1980. While working at LSBC, he served as Current Affairs Officer and Senior Current Affairs Officer, he was later promoted to the rank of a Principal Current Affairs Officer in 1983. He was among the pioneer founders of Lagos Television (L TV 8). After a successful engagement in broadcast journalism, Alake switched into print media joining the Concord Press publishers of the Concord Group of Newspapers . He was a writer and editor at the National Concord and Sunday Concord and later a columnist in the National Concord until 1989. Following his experience in journalism, he was appointed editor of Sunday Concord and editor of the National Concord untill 1999.

He was appointed minister of Solid Minerals Development by President Bola Tinubu on 16 August 2023.

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