{"id":204504,"date":"2025-08-12T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-data-is-new-oil-if-properly-managed-olagunju\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:55:56","slug":"nigeria-data-is-new-oil-if-properly-managed-olagunju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-data-is-new-oil-if-properly-managed-olagunju\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Data Is New Oil If Properly Managed &#8211; Olagunju"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>Dr. Jummy Adetoyese Olagunju is a man of many parts: an Earth Scientist,<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\"><em>Transformational Speaker, Life Coach, Diversity Consultant, and Leadership Expert. He recently added another feather to his cap after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award in Data and Information Management at the Institute of Information Management (IIM) Africa&#8217;s 2025 Annual Convention held in Lagos. In this interview, he speaks about the evolution of Nigeria&#8217;s data landscape, the challenges ahead, and why building a&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508110552.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jummy Adetoyese Olagunju is a man of many parts: an Earth Scientist, Transformational Speaker, Life Coach, Diversity Consultant, and Leadership Expert. He recently added another feather to his cap after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award in Data and Information Management at the Institute of Information Management (IIM) Africa&#8217;s 2025 Annual Convention held in Lagos. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9880,18309,257,4687,393,4221,52084,29358,254],"class_list":["post-204504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-data","tag-managed","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-oil","tag-olagunju","tag-properly","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}