While sports journalists are a dime a dozen these days, especially on broadcast media, Max FM Lagos sports journalist Bolarinwa Olajide remains one of the select few regarded as the best on Nigerian radio.
The journalist whose career has been defined by many landmark achievements, including winning the #FlyLufthansaToRussia contest during the last world cup, has to his credit the merit award of Best Sports Journalist (Electronic) by Nigeria Radio Award, among others.
His standing as an important social media influencer in the sports space in Nigeria is reinforced by his recent unveiling as the official brand ambassador for fanfootball.app, an online fantasy league website.
Trained at the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, Bolarinwa was for eight years, a sports journalist at Nigeria Info FM, where he hosted a Formula One show, the only motorsports show on Nigerian radio.
Presently the host of Max Sports on Sun, from 3 pm to 7 pm, commands a large audience on his sports show which treats the audience to comprehensive and in-depth analysis of sporting events from both local and foreign scenes.
The versatile journalist who is also popular on social media as @iambolar also hosts Twitter Space sessions to facilitate discussion among football lovers, especially fans of the English Premier League.
As far as sports journalists go, he has an unassailable track forged from a career that has seen him travelling regularly to Europe to cover the English Premier League, FA Cup and the Champions League matches. He has also covered the season-ending Abu Dhabi MotoGP, as well as interviewed popular sports figures around the world including Carles Puyol, Hernan Crespo, Rio Ferdinand and Jose Mourinho. Iambolar, as he is popularly known on social media, has been described as one of the social media sports influencers in Nigeria. However, has a modest way of describing himself―“sports fan, broadcaster, journalist, media consultant and everything in between.”