Buhari help Osinbajo to names deputy chief of staff, media aide

Press statement from presidency
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the
appointment of Mr. Rahman Adeola Ipaye as Deputy Chief
of Staff and Mr. Laolu Akande as Senior Special Assistant
(Media & Publicity) in the Presidency.
The two new appointees will work in the Office of the Vice
President.
Mr. 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, Mr. 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).
Mr. 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.
Mr. 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.
Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)