Buhari appoints Ogunlesi, as Special Assistant Digital and New Media.

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr Tolu Ogunlesi, as his Special Assistant on Digital and New Media.

Mr Ogunlesi’s appointment was announced on Thursday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina.


Ogunlesi, 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 in the United Kingdom 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).

He would be assisted by Bashir Ahmad, who is a Personal Assistant to the President on New Media.