President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Tolu Ogunlesi @toluogunlesi as his Special Assistant on Digital/New Media.
A statement by Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said Ogunlesi will be assisted by Bashir Ahamd who was recently named Personal Assistant to the President on 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.
He 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 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.
