The Board of Directors of Daily Telegraph Publishing Company Limited has approved the appointment of Juliet Bumah as the Editor New Telegraph and Geoffrey Ekenna as Sunday Editor.
The former Editor, Ayodele Ojo has proceeded on sabbatical leave.
Before their new appointment, Bumah was Sunday Editor, while Ekenna was Deputy Editor of the daily paper.
the Eagle Online reports that The new Daily Editor, who has spent over 20 years in the print media in Nigeria, graduated from the University of Lagos with a BA (Hons) English in 1995.
In 2000, she obtained a Masters of Art in Literature in English (MA Litt) from the same institution.
A copy editor, literary critic and creative writer, Bumah had her first stint in journalism in 1995 at the Kaduna State Media Corporation, where she was a news programme producer and presenter during her National Youths Service.
From there, she moved to Hybrid Publications, an international publishing house in 2005, as Literary Editor.
Her foray into mainstream journalism started at the Daily Times as a Senior Staff Writer in 2001 from where she rose to the position of Art Editor six months later.
From Daily Times, she moved to the National Interest newspapers and was recalled by Daily Times three months later.
Over the years, Bumah has worked with several newspapers and magazines in Nigeria.
As Head of Desk, she established the Trends, Arts and Lifestyle section of the National Daily Newspapers in 2007.
In 2008, she moved to True Tales Publications as Editor of Hints, a popular romance magazine.
From Hints, Bumah took her trade to The Punch as Assistant Editor in charge of Feature and Living Desk in 2008.
She was Feature Editor of Saturday Punch in 2011 and was moved to the Copy Desk, later to General News Desk (The Punch) and back to Saturday Punch as Feature Editor
She held that position until December 2013 when she took up an appointment as the Deputy Editor of Sunday Telegraph.
In December 2015, she became the Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, a post she has held till this new appointment.
A 1998 graduate of Mass Communication from the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, Ekenna also attended Pan Atlantic University, Lagos, where he studied Community Relations.
He brings a vast experience that spans Politics, business, Back of the Book, Sports and other areas.
He worked in Newswatch, Tell, National Interest, Punch and Compass newspapers.
He was Group Politics Editor of Compass.
He has been the News Editor of the New Telegraph since 2014 and also the Deputy Editor, Group Head, Newsroom since 2016.