BUHARI APPROVES APPOINTMENT OF AIDES TO VICE PRESIDENT.

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)