Ace Punch Cameraman, Award Winner Is Dead

The winner of 1998 Nigeria’s version of the U.S. Prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Media Excellence, Adefunpe Ojeyemi is dead.

With ingenuity at pursuing trouble to its very foundation in his exclusive photo-coverage of events, Ojeyemi , popularly called : Baba Oje, was a senior Photographer of the Punch newspaper who won Diamond Award for Media Excellence DAME in the 1998 photo Journalism category.

His exclusive photo shots in Punch newspaper’s coverage of the largest demonstration ever held in the south western Nigeria, being the 1998 May Day crisis in Ibadan, earned him the prestigious DAME award.

He was a major co-contributor to the biography of former Civilian Governor Lam Adesina’s biography authored by Olalere Fagbola as his exclusive photographs numbering fifty punctuated the book which is in poetic verses.
Baba Oje retired from the Punch in 1999 after serving the newspaper company for fifteen years. He had earlier worked with the New Nigerian newspaper as the Oyo state photo editor of the newspaper.

Family sources confirmed that Adefunpe Ojeyemi, aged 80 , died on last Saturday, October,15, 2022 at his Ibadan residence . He hailed from Iwerele in Iwajowa local Government of Oyo state.