A
popular Nigerian blogger who is always vocal on social media, has today
bagged an appointment from the presidency as he has been announced as
the Special Assistant on Digital/New Media to President Buhari.
In a statement released this evening by the presidential Senior
Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Shehu Garba, President
Muhammadu Buhari has today, February 18th, appointed popular journalist,
social media commenter and blogger, Tolu Ogunlesi, as his Special
Assistant on Digital/New Media.
Below is the official statement below;
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday appointed Mr. Tolu Ogunlesi as
his Special Assistant on Digital/New Media. Ogunlesi, who is a renowned
blogger and journalist, graduated from the University of Ibadan in 2004,
and obtained an MA in Creative Writing from University of East Anglia,
UK, in 2011. 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.
Femi Adesina,
Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity)
18th February, 2016.
