By Dayo Johnson, Akure

By Dayo Johnson, Akure

Ondo state governor, Hon Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has appointed, Ebenezer Adeniyan as his Chief Press Secretary, CPS.

Other appointments announced in a statement by Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor, Omojuwa Olusegun, in Akure, include Smart Omodunbi Jnr.- Special Assistant to the Governor (Political Matters), Abire Sunday Olugbenga (New Media) Special Assistant to the Governor, Miss Motunrayo Oyedele (Photography) Special Assistant to the Governor and Dr. Temitayo Iperepolu (Domestic and Government House)
Special Assistant to the Governor.

Omojuwa said that the appointments take immediate effect.

The new CPS, Adeniyan, is a multiple-award-winning journalist, media consultant, author and unionist, is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of TRACE News Magazine.

He is a graduate of Mass Communication, he began his journalism career in 2000 when he joined The Hope Newspaper as a trainee reporter before having a one-year stint as Ondo/Ekiti State Correspondent for Treasure News Magazine, Lagos. He became a staff reporter of The Hope Newspaper on January 1, 2002.

Between 2002 and 2006, he was a member of the Press Crew to Governor Adebayo Adefarati and Governor Olusegun Agagu as Government House Correspondent for The Hope Newspaper.

In April 2009, he was appointed the Chief Sub Editor of The Hope Newspaper, a position he held until November of the same year when he resigned voluntarily from The Hope and joined Sunshine Daily Watch (now rested), the first daily newspaper published in Ondo State, as Managing Editor and later Editor.

Adeniyan was the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the immediate past Minister of State for Transportation, Prince Ademola Adegoroye.

He is a Prince of Akure land and as a community leader, he is currently the President of the Akure Reform Ambassadors, a social-cultural group in Akure, Ondo State.