PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has named an
award-winning journalists and blogger, Mr. Tolu
Ogunlesi as his special assistant on digital and new
media.
Ogunlesi graduated from the University of Ibadan in
2004 obtained an Masters of Arts in Creative
Writing from University of East Anglia, UK, in 2011.
A statement from the Presidential spokesman, Femi
Adesina, said Ogunlesi is a two-time winner of the
CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards, and a
2015 New Media Fellow of the U.S. State
Department’s International Visitor Leadership
Programme (IVLP).
Ogunlesi, according to the statement, would be
assisted by Bashir Ahmad, who is a Personal
Assistant to the President on New Media.
Before his appointment, Ogunlesi had worked as a
Features Editor and Editorial Board member of
NEXT Newspaper. He also worked as a West Africa
Editor for The Africa Report Magazine from 2014 to
2015.
Source : Guardian
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