President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday appointed Mr. Tolu Ogunlesi as his
Special Assistant on Digital/New Media.
Ogunlesi, who is a renowned blogger and journalist, graduated from the
University of Ibadan in 2004, and obtained an MA in Creative Writing from
University of East Anglia, UK, in 2011.
Before his appointment, Ogunlesi had worked as a Features Editor and
Editorial Board member of NEXT Newspaper. He also worked as a West Africa
Editor for The Africa Report magazine from 2014 to 2015.
Ogunlesi is a two-time winner of the CNN Multichoice African Journalism
Awards, and a 2015 New Media Fellow of the U.S. State Department’s
International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP).
Ogunlesi will be assisted by Bashir Ahmad, who is a Personal Assistant to
the President on New Media