The Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege has made his first appointments. On Thursday, he approved the appointment of top Special Advisers.
In a statement he personally signed, the Senator announced the appointment of Dr. Otive Igbuzor as his Chief of Staff and Yomi Odunuga as Special Adviser, Media and Publicity. He also approved the appointment of Lara Owoeye-Wise as Senior Special Assistant on Electronic and New Media. He explained that the appointments which take immediate effect were based on merit.
Dailypost reports that Igbuzor is Founding Executive Director of the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD). He was once the International Head of campaigns of ActionAid International and Country Director of ActionAid Nigeria. He was also an honourable Commissioner in the Police Service Commission (PSC).
He had also served as a lecturer at the Delta State University, Lagos Centre and has published many scholarly articles on democracy, gender, politics and development. He is a versatile writer, researcher and author of several publications.
Odunuga, on the other hand, is an Abuja Bureau Chief and Deputy Editor of The Nation newspapers. He was born on June 2, 1966. Odunuga, a poet, lyricist, reporter and columnist, started his journalism career with the PUNCH newspaper over two decades ago. He was, for several years, the State House Correspondent of the paper.
