Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi Urges Women to Tell Their Story 

Summary: Former broadcaster and entrepreneur Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi urged women to document and own their stories on Friday, March 21, 2026, while speaking at the Creative Blueprint Masterclass 2.0 with Funke Akindele, held at Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Former broadcaster and entrepreneur Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi has urged women to document and tell their own stories. She made the call on Friday, March 21, 2026, while speaking at the Creative Blueprint Masterclass 2.0 with Funke Akindele, held at Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi, who spent 16 years in radio, including seven years as programme director of The Beat 99.9 FM, stated that she learned the importance of self-documentation after her former radio station erased her from a documentary marking its tenth anniversary.

“When they put this documentary on YouTube, I was not part of it,” she stated. “How can somebody be a programme director for seven years and you erase the person from the entire documentary?”

She stated that she raised the matter with management directly. “How could you approve this? Did you not think of me, who started the radio station and passed on the mantle after seven years?” she stated.

The experience, she stated, shaped how she now approaches her own story. When she left the radio in 2021, Olateru-Olagbegi stated that she documented her entire journey in a lengthy thread on X, formerly Twitter.

 “By God’s grace, we will all live long. But even when my daughter grows up, she is going to see those tweets and know what her mother did,” she stated. “Tell your story.”