Olaotan Fawehinmi

Olaotan ‘Onigegeara’ Fawehinmi lives in a world where hearts beat like the wings of birds and souls sing like a chime that flies on a breeze from the lake to the trees.

A nifty writer, author, and public speaker in the Relationship & Marriage, Home & Family, Self-improvement, Youth Development & Leadership niches, whose write-ups have been published by preeminent national dailies such as The Guardian, Nigerian Tribune, The Nation and Sun Newspaper, and also on popular online news portals such as SaharaReporters, Ekekeee.com and flameville.

Starting out his professional career as a Copywriter at the reputable Konga.com, Olaotan, due to his meritorious contributions was made the Content Production Manager just after 7 months in the company. Apart from effectively leading the Fashion Content Team, he also worked conscientiously with the I.T. team to successfully customize the portal after migrating from Spree Commerce to Magento.

He is currently the Executive Editor of GHEmedia.com, a frontline online news portal and media arm of Glass House Entertainment Limited. A position he earned after 9 months of being engaged as the Associate Editor, following several commendations for impressive performance on his job functions.

Olaotan attended a professional training course in digital marketing organized by the School of Media & Communications, Pan-Atlantic University in collaboration with the Wide Fusion Digital Centre. Prior to this, he obtained a B.Tech in Quantity Surveying at the Federal University of Technology Akure, graduating with a Second Class Honours, Upper Division and had earlier on obtained a National Diploma from the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, again with an Upper Credit. His secondary school education was at the prestigious St. Joseph’s College, Ondo – an incontestable history of high-caliber intellectual training.

After working briefly as a Quantity Surveyor in a reputable consulting firm, Olaotan quitted the upwardly-mobile profession to fully pursue his passion – WRITING & CONTENT DEVELOPMENT. Today, his family, friends and fans call him “onigegeara” meaning “owner of a wonder pen,” and he has lived up to that appellation by authoring “If I were a Girl, I would not…!” in 2012 and “The Soldier Within” in 2015 – two masterpieces from his quintessentially sublime mind, both published online and distributed by Lulu.com.

Olaotan Onigegeara FawehinmiOlaotan combines a great scientific and philosophical mind, with a deep heart of character and an articulate skill both in writing and in speaking. When he is not writing or speaking, you can find him designing and developing brand identity through graphics, websites, digital and content marketing.

Olaotan is the resourceful, attentive to details and creative content provider that packages ideas into powerful messages by stringing the right words (and media) into the right form and length to capture attention and motivate minds. He writes: • Web Content • Press Releases • Articles • Advertising Copy • Brochures (collateral material, used in Direct Mail, Point of Sale, etc.) • Titles • Slogans • Speeches • Marketing/Sales Letters • Business and Marketing Plans • Scripts (for radio and tv ads, and advertorials, etc.)

With vast skill set, Olaotan is proficient in the use of content management systems such as WordPress, Spree Commerce, Magento, Prestashop etc, and his greatest expertise revolve in the world of technology, especially computers, effectively using its applications to achieve remarkable results.

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when Olaotan is feeling sad, he simply remembers 3 favourite things – writing, speaking, designing – and then he doesn’t feel so bad.