Ore Oduba

Ore Oduba (born 17 November 1986 in London, England) is a British newsreader, who has presented the BBC's children's news programme Newsround since August 2008. Oduba also reports for BBC Sport.

Early life and education

Oduba was born in London. He was educated at Canford School, a co-educational independent school for both boarding and day pupils, in the village of Canford Magna, near to the market town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, in South West England, followed by Loughborough University, where he studied Sports Science and Social Science.

Career

Oduba had always aimed for a career in sports broadcasting,^[2] and initially joined The Network, an Edinburgh television festival scheme.

Newsround

Oduba joined Newsround in August 2008, following the departure of Lizo Mzimba and Laura Jones. His first role on the programme was as a reporter and breakfast bulletin presenter. He was quickly promoted to deputy presenter in 2009, filling in for main presenter Sonali Shah in her absence. In 2010 he joined Shah to begin presenting the main Newsround bulletin double-headed. This continued until Shah's departure in November 2011. He has since be joined by reporters Leah Gooding and Hayley Cutts.

As part of his role he also presented spin-off show Sportsround. He became the main presenter in October 2008 when the show relaunched. He presented until its cancellation in 2010. The show was replaced by Match of the Day Kickabout which Oduba also presents.

BBC Sport

Oduba has presented sport bulletins for BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio 5 Live on a number of occasions. He has also presented and reported on British Olympic Dreams along with former Newsround co-presenter Sonali Shah.

Other work

Oduba regularly appears on CBBC studio presentation following his Newsround shift as a guest. He has also been a guest on CBBC shows Sam & Mark's TMi Friday, Hacker Time and All Over the Place.

In the lead up to the 2012 Summer Olympics Oduba is presenting a new programme called Ultimate Sports Day for CBBC.

On 2nd March 2013 Oduba and Sonali Shah appeared on the BBC's Let's Dance for Comic Relief, dancing to Hey Ya by Outkast. They were eliminated, and did not get through to the final.^[3]

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