Lamide Akintobi is an award winning broadcast journalist and television personality with over a decade of experience in TV, in front of and behind the camera. She is currently a Features/Multi-platform Producer for CNN International, as well as an event host and moderator.

Through her production company - Something Special Media Productions Ltd, she provides various services, including event hosting and moderating, media consulting, voiceover services and pitch, presentation and interview coaching.

She was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and was educated there until her third year of secondary school. She moved to London to complete her secondary education after which she moved to the U.S.

She attended Volunteer State Community College in Tennessee, where she served as a Student Leader, was a founding member and Vice President of the school's International Student Association, a Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society member and a Dean's List Student every semester. Outside of school, she was a volunteer tutor and mentor at ‘Children are People,’ an after-school program for young black students. She graduated Summa cum Laude with an A.A Degree in Broadcast Journalism & Spanish. After this, she accepted an academic scholarship to Texas A&M University - Commerce, where she was a member of the Pi of Texas Honors Society and pledged Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, a community service organization. She graduated from TAMU-C with a B.A Degree in Broadcast Journalism and Spanish (Magna cum laude), and in 2011 , received an M.A (with Merit) in International Journalism from City University, London, where she was a British Council Chevening Scholar.

She has worked as a news anchor, producer and reporter at Channels Television and Television Continental, and as a presenter/producer at Ebonylife TV, a Pan-African Entertainment Network. She co-created, co-presented and produced “The Spot,” one of the channel's most popular shows until it wrapped in mid-2017. She produced and presented several other programs on the channel, including Classic Moments: True Stories, EL Now, The Calabar Jazz Festival, The Calabar Carnival, With Mikel - a special docu-reality program on Chelsea F.C player Mikel Obi, VVIP, and Travel/Documentary Specials in Rwanda. She also hosted/moderated panels in which she interviewed President Goodluck Jonathan, President Muhammad Buhari, and other top government officials. She also was the Season 2 host for the TV show “Church Culture“ produced by Red Media/YNaija TV, and freelance produced for CNN’s Africa Features, producing various shows including Innovate Africa, African Voices and Inside Africa.

In addition to this, she has worked on independent programs & documentaries and content acquisition for TV channels.

She won a Future Award for "On Air Personality of the Year" in 2009, as well as a “Women in Media” award and the Ogun State Young Achiever award. In December 2013, she was honoured as one of the 100 “Guardians of the Future” by The Future Africa Project in a ceremony at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. She was also named "One of 50 Women Changing Journalism in Nigeria" by the Women in Journalism Nigeria Organization in 2015.

She has also served as the editor of Diaspora Quarterly, a quarterly magazine focused on telling the stories of Nigerians in the Diaspora, and returnees making a difference in Nigeria. As a believer in community service, Lamide helped establish a presence for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated in West Africa in 2021. She is a charter member of the West Africa Alumnae Chapter of the sorority, and served as Corresponding Secretary from 2021 until 2023.

In addition to this, she loves adventure, good food, travel, music, movies, learning new languages (currently Hindi & Portuguese), sewing and reading.