The management of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has approved the appointment of Mufutau Ojo as Editor-in-Chief.
He succeeds Ephraims Sheyin, who retired on Dec. 11 after 35 years of service to the agency.
Ojo is a 1988 graduate of the English Department at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he was awarded the highly coveted Ogungbesan Prize for the best graduating student in the department.
The new Editor-in-Chief also holds a Postgraduate Diploma and an M.Sc. Degree in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos and Lagos State University, respectively, as well as a Master of Business Administration (MBA).
Ojo, a Fellow of the prestigious Thomson Reuters Foundation in London, has over two decades of experience across various newsrooms.
In his new role, Ojo will lead an editorial team of more than 500 editors and reporters spread across the agency’s headquarters in Abuja, the Lagos Directorate, 35 state offices, and 18 district offices.
The agency also has news exchange partnerships with major news organizations such as Reuters (United Kingdom), Agence France Presse (France), Xinhua (China), the Asian News Agency, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Germany), Anadolu (Turkey), and Maghreb Arabe Presse (Morocco). (NAN)
