BREAKING: Buhari Appoints Tolu Ogunlesi, Head New Media Team
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Thursday, February 18th, 2016
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday appointed Mr. Tolu Ogunlesi as his Special Assistant on Digital/New Media.
Ogunlesi, is a renowned blogger and journalist. He graduated from the University of Ibadan in 2004 and obtained MA in Creative Writing from University of East Anglia, UK, in 2011.
In a statement by his SA on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adeshina, 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.
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 will be assisted by Bashir Ahmad, who is a Personal Assistant to the President on New Media.
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