By Grace Oputa
Bolaji Okusaga who has been managing director of Quadrant MSL ,a leading Nigerian PR agency has quit his position.The erstwhile head of Quadrant MSL which is a part of the Troyka Holding/Publicis Group is starting up his own PR agency known as Precise .According to a public post made on Facebook by Okusaga himself earlier this month, ”after 10 years at Quadrant, it is time to move on” he says.
Okusaga has stayed longer than most of the PR agency’s heads before him .His tenure has also seen some turbulence especially several changes in the agency’s global affiliations, mostly due to turbulent too at its parent ,Troyka/Insight Comms parent.
Okusaga joined Quadrant as a lead consultant in April,2007.About 10 months later, he was named managing director of the agency following the abrupt departure of its then head consultant. Okusaga, a theatre arts graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University where he graduated in 1995.He later obtained a Master’s degree in communications arts from the University of Ibadan in 1998.
He started his media /PR career in the broadcast media in 2001 at Minaj TV where he was a producer/researcher until 2002.B 2005 ,he was Head of Investor relations at leading commercial bank, Access bank plc. But moved back to consulting the following at PR agency,NECCI. He left NECCI for Quadrant in 2007.
