Izuchukwu Okosi
Nigerians on Sunday trooped out to welcome adventure biker Kunle Adeyanju at the Seme Border in Lagos after successfully riding from London to Nigeria on a bike.
The journey which lasted between 15th of April, 2022 to 29th of May, 2022 saw him drive across France, Spain, Morocco, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Benin Republic.
Adeyanju covered around a distance of 12,000 km.
The Nigerian thus set the record straight as the first man in modern history to travel from London to Nigeria on a bike.
Throughout the journey, the self-styled ‘Lionheart’ kept his fans updated with each stops and challenges whilst sojourning through dangerous parts.
Adeyanju’s mission is to raise funds in a bid to tackle polio in Africa as well as tackle primary healthcare issues, clean water and sanitation.
The brave bike enthusiast is a London-based Nigerian entrepreneur and an author. He joined the Rotary Club when he was still studying at the university.
From 2006 to 2009, he worked with Shell Petroleum, and then after completing his University education, he began to work as a management trainee at a British American Tobacco Company. Now, he has established his own private firm called the Pelicians DNO in which he is the CEO.
In April 2022, he began his motorbike trip from London to Lagos to raise funds for primary healthcare, Polio plus project, water, and sanitation.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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