The 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 issued on Sunday approved the appointment of Alhaji Idi Farouk, a former Director General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), as the Chairman of the Board of New Telegraph. Other board members include a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Solo Akuma; Mr. 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.
The Daily Editor, Mr. Yemi Ajayi is now the Managing Editor, Business and Strategy while the Deputy Editor, Daily, Mr. Emeka Obasi becomes the Managing Editor, Publication and Operations.
The Sunday Editor, Mr. Emeka Madunagu, has been appointed the Managing Editor (South) while the Saturday Editor, Mr. Lawrence Ani, is the Managing Editor, North and Abuja.
Also, the board approved the appointments of new editors for New Telegraph titles.Mr. Ayodele Ojo is the Daily Editor while Mr. Geoffrey Ekenna is the Deputy Editor, Daily/Group Head of Newsroom. Mrs. Juliet Bumah is the new Sunday Editor while Mr. Waheed Bakare takes charge of the Saturday
Telegraph. Mr. Felix Nwaneri is the new Group Political Editor.
All the appointments take effect from December 1, 2015.
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), Features 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, copyeditor, 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.
