Omo-Agege appoints Igbuzor, Odunuga and Owoeye-Wise as top aides

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie 0mo-Agege, has
approved the appointments of Dr. Otive Igbuzor as his Chief of
Staff and Mr. Yomi Odunuga as Special Adviser, Media and
Publicity.

He also announced the appointment of Ms. Lara Owoeye-Wise as
Senior Special Assistant on Electronic and New Media.

Omo-Agege, in a statement personally signed by him and released
by his office Thursday, explains that the appointments which take
immediate effect are based on merit.

Igbuzor is Founding Executive Director of the African Centre for
Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD). He was once the
International Head of campaigns of ActionAid International and
Country Director of ActionAid Nigeria. He was also an honourable
Commissioner in the Police Service Commission (PSC).

He was a Programme Co-ordinator of Centre for Democracy and
Development (CDD), an independent research, information and
training institution dedicated to policy oriented scholarship on
questions of democratic development and peace building in the West
African sub-region. Previously, he was a lecturer at the Delta
State University, Lagos Centre and has published many scholarly
articles on democracy, gender, politics and development. He is a
versatile writer, researcher and author of several
publications.

His specialties include but not limited to Strategy Formulation,
Programme design, implementation and evaluation, Policy Analysis,
Leadership Training and Research.

Odunuga is the Abuja Bureau Chief and Deputy Editor (Nation’s
Capital) of THE NATION newspapers.

Born on June 2, 1966, Odunuga a poet, lyricist, reporter and
columnist, started his journalism career with the PUNCH newspaper
over two decades ago. He was, for several years, the State House
Correspondent of the paper where he maintained two columns–Life in
Abuja and the popular weekend treat called Inside Aso Rock.

His insightful and critical analysis of the intriguing politics
of that period earned him accolades and recognition which later saw
him being promoted to the position of Abuja Bureau Chief at PUNCH
newspaper.

In 2006, he was elevated to the position of Group Political
Editor of The PUNCH. He later joined THE NATION newspaper as an
Assistant Editor and Bureau Chief in Abuja. At THE NATION, his
rested PUNCH newspaper column Knuckles transformed into Knucklehead
which offers him the opportunity to continue his weekly
interrogation and critique of the socio-political developments in
the polity.

The 1990 best graduating student of the then Olabisi Onabanjo
State University has attended several journalism courses in Nigeria
and outside the country.

The widely-travelled journalist is married to Toyosi Odunuga and
the couple is blessed with children.

A graduate of Religion and philosophy from the University of
Jos, Plateau State, Owoeye-Wise is a multiple award winning
journalist whose experience has spanned over two decades and has
spread between the print and the electronic media.

She has worked at The Punch Newspapers, The News Magazine, AM
News and Tempo tabloids. She crossed over to the electronic media
as a pioneer staff for Silverbird TV, a pioneer staff of the
resuscitated Minaj Broadcast International, MBI, and was Deputy
Head of Presentation, Senior News Editor, news anchor and chief
correspondent at Africa Independent Television, AIT before her
appointment as Senior Assistant, Media to the immediate past Deputy
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Lara has had a working stint with the Voice of American,
Washington DC and KSTP Channel 5, Minnesota.

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