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Former North American Bureau Chief of The Guardian, Laolu Akande is set to be named spokesperson for Nigeria's Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo.
According to PREMIUM TIMES, sources close to President Muhammadu Buhari said Mr. Akande’s appointment would be among several others to be announced Monday or Tuesday.
Akande's bio on the website of the CANUSA, a Christian organization for which he works as executive director, reads, Akande is ''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. He has also exclusively interviewed American folk hero, General Colin Powell, as well as billionaires like Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Donald Trump and several African leaders and presidents''.
According to PREMIUM TIMES, sources close to President Muhammadu Buhari said Mr. Akande’s appointment would be among several others to be announced Monday or Tuesday.
Akande's bio on the website of the CANUSA, a Christian organization for which he works as executive director, reads, Akande is ''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. He has also exclusively interviewed American folk hero, General Colin Powell, as well as billionaires like Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Donald Trump and several African leaders and presidents''.
