JULIET BUMAH,OTHERS ELEVATED AT NEW TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER

BOARD of Directors of Daily Telegraph Publishing Company Limited has con­stituted its board and effected changes in the management of the New Telegraph news­papers.

The board, in a state­ment on Sunday, approved the appointment of Alhaji Idi Farouk, a former Direc­tor General, National Ori­entation Agency (NOA), as Chairman of New Telegraph Board.

Other board members in­clude a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Solo Akuma; Rev. Emeka Abone; Mr. Olakunle Gidado, Man­aging Director, BP West Africa, and Managing Direc­tor/Editor-in-Chief of New Telegraph, Mrs. Funke Eg­bemode.

Also, as part of efforts to reposition the newspaper, new appointments have been made to the executive man­agement of the paper.

Daily Editor, Mr. Yemi Ajayi is now the Managing Editor, Business and Strategy while Deputy Editor, Daily, Mr. Emeka Obasi becomes the Managing Editor, Publi­cation and Operations.

Sunday Editor, Mr. Emeka Madunagu, has been ap­pointed Managing Editor (South) while Saturday Edi­tor, Mr. Lawrence Ani, is the Managing Editor, North and Abuja.

Also, the board approved appointments of new editors for New Telegraph titles.

Mr. Ayodele Ojo is Daily Editor while Mr. Geoffrey Ekenna is Deputy Editor, Daily/Group Head of News­room.

Mrs. Juliet Bumah is new Sunday Editor while Mr. Waheed Bakare takes charge of Saturday Telegraph.

Mr. Felix Nwaneri is the new Group Political Editor.

All the appointments take effect from December 1, 2015.

Farouk is a former Direc­tor General, National Orien­tation Agency.

He has wide experience in private and public sectors. He was local government chair­man and Commissioner for Information, Kaduna State. In 1999, he was appointed as Chief of Staff to Governor Ahmed Makarfi

He had served on the board of governing council of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado- Ekiti and Peugeot Automo­bile Nigeria Limited.

Rev. Abone, a graduate of Business Administration from the University of Nige­ria, is the Vice Chairman of SLOK Group and First Inter­national Bank, Gambia.

The board member is an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Ac­countants of Nigeria (ICAN) and Institute of Directors, Nigeria.

He began his working ca­reer with Oladeji Olagunji & Co., a Lagos-based firm of Chartered Accountants as Trainee Accountant in 1988. Thereafter, he worked with Seven-Up Bottling Company Plc., Ikeja as Assistant Cost Accountant and Universal Trust Bank of Nigeria Limit­ed (UTB) and Fund Tech Fi­nance and Investment Plc. as Head, Finance and Adminis­tration, a post he held until his appointment at SLOK Nigeria Ltd in November 1995 as Financial Controller. Abone has attended numer­ous trade fairs in Indonesia, Malaysia and China.

Akuma (SAN), a former Attorney General and Com­missioner for Justice in Abia State, is the Managing Solici­tor, Soloakuma and Associ­ates.

He is a 1985 graduate of Law from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He has held several positions in the Body of Benchers, Council of Le­gal Education and Judicial Panels of Inquiry.

Akuma is the author of “Traversing the Path of Jus­tice.” He is a recipient of the Member of the Order of the Niger (MON).

Gidado is the Managing Director and Regional Lead for British Petroleum (BP) Global West Africa. He is re­sponsible for overall leader­ship of BP IST West African presence and the delivery of BP supply and trading West Africa strategy.

Gidado joined BP’s Natu­ral Gas trading business in Houston Texas in 2006 be­fore moving to London to serve as Chief of Staff to BP Global Gas Chief Operating Officer. Before he joined BP, he held senior commercial fi­nance and accounting roles in Texaco Oil International and Cinergy Corp. He also serves on the board of Nigermed, a BP/NNPC Joint venture in Nigeria.

Egbemode, a 1988 gradu­ate of English Studies from Obafemi Awolowo Univer­sity, joined The Sun in 2007 as Editor-at-Large and was appointed Editor, Sunday Sun in March 2008. Before coming to The Sun, Egbe­mode had worked in various capacities in the newsrooms of The Punch, THISDAY, The Post Express and Inde­pendent Newspapers, where she was the pioneer Saturday Editor.

Outside the newsroom, she also served in the pub­lic sector as Assistant Chief Press Secretary at the Nige­rian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) and Special Adviser (Media) to former Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Patri­cia Etteh.

She is the author of Inti­mate Affairs and Conversa­tions With My Country. She is the Vice President (West) of the Nigerian Guild of Edi­tors (NGE).

Obasi is a 1985 graduate of History from the University of Benin. He was Diplomatic Correspondent/Sports Editor, Champion between 1988 and 2004.

Obasi is a board member of the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) and Media Adviser to a former state governor.

Ayodele, who until his ap­pointment as Daily Editor, was the Deputy Editor, Daily and Head of Politics of the newspaper.

The new Daily Editor, a graduate of Mass Com­munication and a versatile political reporter, began his career in 1998 with The Inde­pendent newspaper in Accra, Ghana.

Over the years, Ayodele has worked with several newspapers and magazines in Nigeria functioning as Assistant Editor, Group Po­litical Editor/Deputy Editor (Politics) and Editor.

In 2013, he joined New Telegraph from National Mirror where he was the Deputy Editor (Politics). In April 2014, he was the Act­ing Editor of New Telegraph. Between 2007 and 2015, Ayodele was Head of Politics of the defunct New Star, Na­tional Mirror and New Tele­graph.

Bakare, the new Satur­day Editor, joined the de­funct The Comet newspaper in 2000 and moved to The Punch in 2001 where he was Head of Punch Metro (2011), News Editor, Sunday Punch (2013), Feature Edi­tor, Sunday Punch. (2013).

He is a 1997 graduate of English Language, Univer­sity of Ilorin (1997). In 2014, he obtained a Master of Art in English Language from the University of Lagos.

The new Sunday Editor, Bumah, is a journalist, copy editor, literary critic and creative writer with over 19 years in the industry. She graduated from the Universi­ty of Lagos with a BA (Hons) English in 1995 and also got her MA Litt from the same institution in 2000. In 2002, she became the Art Editor of Daily Times and later ed­ited Hints, a popular romance magazine, in 2008.

From Hints, Bumah took her trade to The Punch, as Assistant Editor in charge of Feature and Living Desk in 2008. She was Feature Edi­tor, Saturday Punch in 2011 and was moved to the Copy Desk; later to General News Desk (The Punch) and back to Saturday Punch as Feature Editor. She held that position until 2013 when she took up appointment as the Deputy Editor, Sunday Telegraph.