President Muhammadu Buhari has confirmed the appointments of Rahman Adeola Ipaye as Deputy Chief of Staff and Laolu Akande as the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
Ipaye, who is the immediate past Attorney General of Lagos State will also work in the office of the Vice President.
According
to a statement from the Presidency, 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).
As for the new
spokesman for Osinbajo, he 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.
The new appointees have been working with Vice President Osinbajo since the inception of the present Administration.
