Nigerian journalist and government official Femi Adesina who is currently the special adviser on media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Femi is a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun state. He also attended Lagos Business School. He bagan his career as a writer in charge of various programmes at Radio Lagos and there he discovered his talent thereby becoming a journalist.
He first worked with Vanguard Newspaper and then National Concord Newspaper as an editor. Femi was also the editor of the Nigerian Tribune and Daily Sun.
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In 2007, he was named Editor of the Year by the Nigeria Media Merit Awards. He also served a two-year term as president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors. Although re-elected for a second term as Guild president, Adesina relinquished his position after receiving his government appointment.
On August 31, 2015 he was sworn-in as special adviser on media and publicity to Buhari alongside with Babachi Lawal, the incumbent Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
