QED has it on the highest authority within government circle that the appointment of Tolu Ogunlesi as Special Assistant on New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari has been approved.
While Nigerians wait for official announcement, here are 10 quick facts about the man many expect to do better than Reno Omokri did for immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan
1. Born on March 3, 1982, Tolu is from Sagamu, Ogun State.
2. He spent the first nine years of his life in Abeokuta, the capital of his home state.
3. Played ‘monkey post football’ as a child but is now proudly indifferent about the game.
4. He is a 2004 Bachelor of Pharmacy (B. Pharm) graduate of the prestigious University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
5. Traded the lab coat for the pen, and bagged a Masters (MA) in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, UK in 2011.
6. Currently employed as West Africa Editor at The Africa Report, he at different times in the past worked with Accenture, Visafone, NEXT Newspaper and British Council.
7. He has written for NEXT, CNN.com, guardian.co.uk, Africa Confidential, Huffington Post, The Economist (Baobab Blog), Arise, The Guardian (Nigeria), Think Africa Press, 3 Quarks Daily, London Independent, Harvard Africa Policy Journal, Wasafiri, Farafina, Daily Independent and Punch among many others.
8. Won the CNN Multichoice African Journalism Prize for Arts & Culture (2009) and for Economics & Business (2013).
9. Escaped death after he ran into armed robbers in Lekki in the wee hours of Sunday November 12, 2012, but spent over an hour locked in the boot of his car.
10. Got married to Kemi Agboola on November 29, 2014 at a ceremony held in Ibadan, Oyo State.
