Lamide Akintobi


Lamide Akintobi is a Nigerian journalist and media personality. She worked as a news anchor on Channels TV. She worked as co-host and co-creator on a show called The Spot on EbonyLife TV with Zainab Balogun and Ebuka Obi-Uchendu until the show wrapped in mid-2017

Early life and education

Akintobi is from Abeokuta, Ogun State. She earned an associate of arts degree in Broadcast Journalism and Spanish from Volunteer State Community College in Tennessee, as well as a bachelor's degree in the aforementioned fields of study from Texas A&M University–Commerce. Moreover, she earned a master's degree in International Journalism from City University in London. Lamide became a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 2004.
She lived for a period in Tennessee and Texas.

Career

Akintobi worked as a news anchor on Channels TV. She co-hosted a show called The Spot on EbonyLife TV with Zainab Balogun and Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, and also produced and presented a series El Now. EbonyLife TV is Africa's first globally-oriented black news television network, broadcast in over 40 countries.

Personal life

Akintobi is the daughter of Nigerian musician and producer Laolu Akins.