Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s Media aide has finally resumed in his office in the Aso Villa, the seat of power in Nigeria.
He is a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), former North American Bureau Chief of The Guardian and founding staff of TheNEWS magazine, Laolu Akande.
Believed to be the longest serving African correspondent at the United Nations, and the only Nigerian journalist so far to have interviewed a sitting American President in the White House when he interviewed former President George W. Bush, interviewed American folk hero, General Colin Powell, billionaires like Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Donald Trump and several African leaders and presidents, he is seen as one of the best hands in the profession across the world.
The new spokesman to Osinbajo started his journalism career as a reporter in 1989 with the Guardian titles and later moved over to the founding team of TheNEWS Magazine in 1993.
From there, he became that magazine’s Senior Writer.
In 1995 he joined Nigerian Tribune as Special Projects Editor and later became the Editor of Tribune on Saturday in 1997.
He relocated to the US in 1998.In the US, he worked with leading American newspapers including the Philadelphia Inquirer, and New York Newsday. Also at the United Nations, he worked briefly as a Press Officer and later as Advocacy Consultant between 2002-2004.
He later grew to become an adjunct college professor and founder of Empowered Newswire through which he published Nigerian stories.
He became a pastor in 2007 at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Jesus Friends Assembly in Long Island, New York.
