Toluse Olorunnipa: 1st Nigerian to cover White House as reporter
- Toluse Olorunnipa is the first Nigerian reporter for Washington Post to cover White House
- Olorunnipa has also worked with international organisations like Bloomberg and CNN, among others
- The Nigerian-born international journalist got his degree from Stanford University in America
Nigerians abroad keep flying the flag high and making the nation proud at a period when the country really needs its image laundered.
Toluse Olorunnipa has broken a new ground in journalism as he is the first Nigerian journalist to cover the White House for the Washington Post.
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A Twitter user with the name Olufemi Awoyemi made the news known on the micro-messaging platform on Sunday, June 28, where he also added that he is a graduate of Stanford University.
It should be noted also that Olorunnipa is an analyst for the CNN and has formerly had a stint with international media organisations like Bloomberg, Miami Herald and Stanford.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that Leslie Irby has become the first known African American female with a disability to get pilot license.
Her inspiring story captures the fact that no matter what happens, a deferred dream can still become reality.
Irby flew her first plane at age 16 and said then that she would become a pilot like Bessie Coleman, her idol, Because Of Them We Can reports. She said she flew the plane at that early age through a programme called Aviation Career Enrichment (ACE).
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“I started flying when I was 16 at my local airport here in Atlanta. There is a program operated through OBAP, called ACE (Aviation Career Enrichment), whose purpose is to introduce aviation to young African American children.
“In ACE, I flew a Cessna 172. Through that program, I was selected to participate in an elite group of aviators to be a part of a summer flight line program at Falcon Field, in Peachtree city.
“Through that experience I was able to fly a more streamline aircraft (Diamond 20) and gain more flight hours," she said.
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