Buhari names deputy chief of staff, media aide for Osinbajo

Abuja - President Muhammadu Buhari has
approved the appointment of Rahman Adeola Ipaye
as Deputy Chief of Staff and Laolu Akande as Senior
Special Assistant (Media & Publicity) in the
Presidency.
The two new appointees will work in the Office
of
the Vice President, a statement by the Special
Adviser to the President, Femi Adesina, said.
Ipaye is the immediate past Attorney General of
Lagos State.
He studied at the University of Lagos where he
graduated with B.A. (Hons) Degree (History) in
1984; LL.B. Hons (1988) and LL.M. (1991). He is a
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of
Nigeria and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
respectively.
Before his appointment as Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice, Ipaye was employed as a
lecturer in the Department of Commercial and
Industrial Law, University of Lagos (1992 to 2001);
Special Assistant (Legal Matters) to the Governor of
Lagos State (2001 to 2007); and Special Adviser
(Taxation and Revenue) to the Governor of Lagos
State and member of the State Executive Council
(2007 to 2011).
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Laolu Akande graduated from the University of
Ibadan in 1990 with an honours degree in History
and a Masters degree in Communication &
Language Arts in 1992.
He became a Staff Reporter of the Guardian
newspaper in 1990 while still serving under the
National Youth Service Corps. He left The Guardian
to join the foundation team of The News Magazine
in 1993, where he became Senior Writer. In 1997,
he was appointed by Nigerian Tribune as editor of
the Tribune on Saturday, a position he held until he
moved to the United States of America in 1998.
In the United States, he worked as a journalist with
the Philadelphia Inquirer and New York Newsday.
He also served at the United Nations as a Press
Officer and later as an Advocacy and
Communication Consultant. He was also the Bureau
Chief of The Guardian in North America and the
Executive Director of the Christian Association of
Nigerian-Americans, CANAN.
Akande taught at the State University of New York
at Stonybrook and also Suffolk County Community
College in Long Island, New York between 2002 and
2015.
Ipaye and Akande have been working with Vice
President Osinbajo since the inception of the
present Administration.?
- News 24