After serving for nearly three years as spokesman to late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and one year in the United States as a Research Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi has been appointed the Chairman of the editorial board.
Adeniyi, who returned to the country from the US at the weekend, replaces Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu, who is currently on a sabbatical.
Adeniyi, who was until May 2007 the editor of THISDAY, will also resume his very popular weekly column, The Verdict According to Olusegun Adeniyi, which was last published exactly four years ago this week.
A 1989 graduate of International Relations from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife with a Master’s in International Law and Diplomacy from the University of Lagos, Adeniyi began his journalism career as a Staff Reporter at The Guardian in December 1990 and moved to the now rested African Concord magazine in April 1992 as a Senior Staff Writer.
In September of the same year, he became the magazine’s Abuja Bureau Chief and State House Correspondent. In 1995, he joined Sunday Concord as Assistant Editor.
He joined THISDAY in January 1999 as Deputy Editor of the Sunday Newspaper. A year later, he became the editor of the Saturday newspaper. In 2001, he became the Editor of the Sunday newspaper and in 2005, he was appointed THISDAY editor, a position he occupied until he left to join the Yar’Adua government as Special Adviser on Communications.
A founding member of the National Stakeholder Working Group of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Adeniyi is married with three children.
At Harvard where he just completed a Fellow’s programme, he conducted his research on the factors that shape incumbent presidential elections in Africa.
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