Nigeria vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has choosen ex-North American Bureau Chief of The Guardian, Laolu Akande, as his spokesperson.
Pastor Akande resumed office on Monday in the Aso Villa as President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice officially relocated to the Presidential Villa.
As a journalist reporting for the leading Nigerian newspapers including The Guardian, Pastor Akande is regarded as the longest serving African correspondent at the United Nations, and the only Nigerian journalist so far to have interviewed a sitting American president in the White House when he
interviewed former President George W. Bush. He has also exclusively interviewed American folk hero, General Colin Powell, billionaires like Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Donald Trump and several African leaders and presidents.
His journalism career began as a Reporter in 1989 writing for the Guardian titles and later moved over to the founding team of The News Magazine in 1993, where he became that magazine's Senior Writer. In 1995 Laolu joined Nigerian Tribune titled first as Special Projects Editor and became the Editor of Tribune on Saturday in 1997, before he relocated to the U.S in 1998.
while in the U.S, Pastor Akande is adjunct college professor and he is the founder of Empowered Newswire, and has continuously reported about Nigerians and Nigerian issues especially in the U.S and Canada in the last 13 years.
Pastor Akande had worked with leading American newspapers including the Philadelphia Inquirer, and New York Newsday. He also worked briefly as a Press Officer and later as Advocacy Consultant between 2002-2004 at the United Nations.
He became a pastor in 2007 at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Jesus Friends Assembly in Long Island, New York. Pastor Akande is Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans, CANAN's Executive Director.
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