Rolly Bello Oderinde

Award-winning Broadcast Journalist| Communications Strategist|
Climate Advocate| FGM Activist|
Media Girl| Upcycle Artist

[Rolly Bello Oderinde @rollybello]

Smelling Fresh Won't Kill You

[Wúràolágòkè |Your Stellar Host🎙️| @Wuraolagoke]

Hosting the red carpet for Ikoyi Club 1938’s 88th Anniversary Media Connect was one for the books! 🎤

From Kate Henshaw to Kunle Afolayan, Elizabeth Benson, Yemi Solade, Keppy Ekpeyong & more, I delivered the brief and facilitated memorable conversations.

~Your Stellar Host 🎤

[Rolly Bello Oderinde @rollybello]

It's Nigeria's 66th Independence week and Success Fm Live 1st Public Square Town Hall Meeting with Major 2027 Political Gubernatorial Candidates and Critical Stakeholders in Oyo state !!

Date: Thursday 1st October 2026

Venue : Otunba Subomi Balogun Conference centre,UI Hotels, University of Ibadan,Ibadan .

Time : 12noon !!

The Town Hall meeting will be aired live on Success 105.3fm, U can listen live terrestrially, U can watch on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and other social media Platforms.

[Dr. Richard Munang @RichardMunang]

Africa Is Permanently Discussed. Its Knowledge Must Now Decide.

After every flood, the researchers arrive.

They photograph the waterline, interview families, publish, get cited. The drain stays blocked. Next rains, water and researchers return to the same street.

I call it reactive research: after disaster, changing no decision.

Africa's knowledge systems have not evolved with the demands of now, so in decisions shaping millions of lives it is the topic, not the one holding the numbers.

Africa holds some 30 percent of world mineral reserves.
One analyst puts its critical minerals share below 5 percent.
Both are repeated. Neither is settled.
Yearly, 12 million young Africans seek work. About 3 million find it.

So let us be clear.

A continent that cannot settle its most quoted number is not poor. It is uncounted. When the buyer brings money and scale, the seller never names the price: the measurement monopoly.

With fees rising, jobs changing and AI rewriting learning, what is a university for?

AI summarises what is written. It cannot stand at a mine gate, market or drain to count what never was. That is research's new work.

Research is the turbocharger, decision intelligence (what, who, when) the engine, and policy, action, impact and jobs the road.

The researcher must be the doctor: diagnose, prescribe, never follow the patient to the pharmacy, always check again.

In 2023 an African country recorded USD 15.94 billion of copper and cobalt to China; China recorded USD 13.95 billion. Same cargo, two books, never compared.

Young Africans already count weekly what nobody counts: in Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire, the farmer's share of world cocoa prices.

Most of what Africa needs is already collected: sleeping data until tied to a decision.

The shift: projects that end to decisions that move, research after disaster to before it, sleeping data to a number a minister uses tomorrow.

Tomorrow's university must:
Take questions from decisions on the table.
Send students to count what is missing.
Validate before publishing.
Hand evidence to the decider.
Measure again; publish failures too.

That is what United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) exists for:
Bring universities the questions governments are deciding.
Name young researchers on evidence that moves them.
Carry every finding to the decider first.
Convene governments, the AU and universities around agreed numbers.
Show Africa's governance of minerals, food, fire, flood, land, water and energy in its own numbers.

What one country proves carries to 54 and to any university facing AI: what is knowledge for, if not to change what happens next?

Count it. Keep it. Convert it. Circulate it. Create the jobs it brings.

My grandmother used to say:
"Knowledge that never reaches the farm is only a story told by the fire."
She was right.

Research that moves no decision is unfinished work.

Africa is not poor. Africa is uncounted.

[Viral Gospel @viralgospelhq]

There are things you say to people and you scar them for life.. Be careful what you say to people, especially in marriage!

[Rolly Bello Oderinde @rollybello]

What ignorance will cause.. we are not ready for .

[Beri🌚 @beri_grizou]

Lady shares how she caused a scene at a supermarket after she was asked to pay an extra ₦300 for a nylon to pack the toothpaste and toilet tissue she bought🙆‍♂️🤦

[Rolly Bello Oderinde @rollybello]

@tchapmanonline For My Lover

[Rolly Bello Oderinde @rollybello]

Finally ooo. The Confab is happening in Oct. I called this and I was right.

[Rolly Bello Oderinde @rollybello]

I wonder what happened to the FGs plans for a youth confab. The News article said Q1 2O25. In Q2 they released a statement saying registration portal was open.. Now Q4 still no News.
Just watch out for youth confab announcement before campaign kicks off next year.

[Rolly Bello Oderinde @rollybello]

@RooseveltEkpolo @success1053fm Thank you

[Rolly Bello Oderinde @rollybello]

@famuyiwakaydy @success1053fm 😂

[Famuyiwa Olukayode @famuyiwakaydy]

@success1053fm; @rollybello: Mama, you're still talkin' about Ozone layer?! Àwọn Amerikans tii sún! They are building thousands of data centres, that are consuming thousands of litres of diesel per day! Agenda tii change tipẹ́-tipẹ́!

[Donae'O 🇬🇧🇬🇾🇬🇭 @donaeo]

You can see me and my Mum skanking to UK Funky at my “Evening With Donae’O” show in October. For tickets click this link: https://t.co/mC5GZ7PWwp

[LAFUP @lafup]

Honoured to have brought my voice to the 007 universe! 🕵️‍♂️🎤 Recorded the West African voice work over at Monilare Studios in London. Always a blessing to represent our sounds and accent on international projects. 🚀✨

#VoiceActor #007 #MonilareStudios #LondonVO #WestAfricanVoice

[Tracka @TrackaNG]

Dear @jidesanwoolu and @followlasg,

A child’s access to emergency healthcare should never depend on having cash in hand.

This disturbing account alleges that this woman had to leave her sick child and struggle to find cash because a Lagos General Hospital would not accept bank transfer or POS payment, forcing her to negotiate with a designated POS operator at an inflated charge (N600 to collect N13,000) before her child could receive attention.

She was fortunate to eventually get the cash elsewhere at a better price. What happens to the next parent who cannot?

In an emergency, every second matters. Lagos State’s Patient Bill of Rights guarantees patients urgent and immediate care during emergencies.

We call on the @followlasg, @LagHealthScheme, and relevant health authorities to investigate this allegation, review payment systems across public hospitals, and ensure that payment challenges never become a barrier to care.

Healthcare first. Payment should never cost a life.

@Fmohnigeria Prof. @muhammadpate

Video Credit - Kayafat.Oshodi - TikTok

[Rolly Bello Oderinde @rollybello]

@joph007_ Too true..

[Rolly Bello Oderinde @rollybello]

We had a very interesting conversation with Mogaji Olusegun Abiodun Agboola the
Oyo SDP Guber Candidate on the show on Saturday. #OyoDecides #PublicSquare

[OkinBiscuitsLimited @OkinBiscuits]

Our founder, Emmanuel O. Adesoye (CON, OON), built Okin Biscuits to do more than make biscuits. He created jobs, empowered families, and helped put Offa on Nigeria’s industrial map. As we prepare for our relaunch, we remain committed to his vision of excellence and integrity.

[Rolly Bello Oderinde @rollybello]

@_Nop_kins It's real gold

[Niniola #QOAH @OfficialNiniola]

Three months without you, Michael.

Hmmmm.... Where do I begin?

Some dates are impossible to simply pass.

Today, I remember you not only for the space you left behind, but for the love, memories, music, and the life we shared together.

"Without You" is a tribute born out of that love and the loss. Music created from the hardest place, carrying stories that words alone could never fully tell.

Today, I remember.

On Friday the 21st of August I share "Without You" the EP with the world.

For Michael, For Niniola. For everyone who has ever had to find a way to keep going.

WITHOUT YOU
Friday 21.08.2026 🕊️

[𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐱 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 | 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 @mfclothingceo]

Rolake Bello said Manx your dinner today is on me from Top Kitchen. Thank you Captain Rolly ❣️ @rollybello
Remain lunch cc @abenasports

[Rolly Bello Oderinde @rollybello]

@Arugboboisi_Sam Agenda is allowed. Why are cameras recording? Also did he stop to buy corn like this in 2024 and 2025? 😅