The Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has appointed a former Executive Director of the Sun Newspaper, Mr. Bolaji Tunji as Special Adviser, Communication and Strategy.
He is taking over from Mr. Yomi Layinka, who has been redeployed to the new and strategic role of Special Adviser, Ibadan Media City Project.
A statement by the Secretary to the Oyo State Government, Mr. Olalekan Alli, conveyed the governor’s decision, on the new development on Thursday.
Until his new appointment, Tunji was the ED, Special Duties and a member of the board of the Sun Newspapers, where he took a leave of absence to assume his new role.
An alumnus of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, the new governor’s spokesman was the pioneer managing director/editor-in-chief of the New Telegraph newspaper.
He began his journalism career at the Guardian newspaper in March 1993, from where he joined the Daily Independent newspaper as pioneer deputy news editor in 2001 and had a meteoric rise to the position of an Editor.
Tunji also had a stint with the Daily Times before joining the defunct Comet newspaper, which later metamorphosed into The Nation Newspaper.
At the Nation, he was the pioneer editor of the Saturday title, before joining the repackaged National Mirror as pioneer Sunday Editor and later Editor of the National Mirror, the flagship of the Global Media Mirror Limited titles.
He left the National Mirror to assist in the setting up of the New Telegraph, where he served as the pioneer MD/EIC, before being appointed as the ED, special duties of the Sun Newspaper. Tunji is married and is blessed with male and female children.
