By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has appointed Mr Bolaji Tunji an Executive Director with the Sun Newspapers as his new Special Adviser, Communication and Strategy as he named Mr Yomi Layinka as the Special Adviser, Ibadan Media City Project.
The new appointments were contained in a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Olalekan Alli made available to newsmen in Ibadan on Thursday.
According to the SSG, the redeployment of Mr Layinka to the new project ” is further proof of the government’s commitment to reclaiming the state’s pioneer status as Nigeria’s leading centre of media, entertainment and culture.”
The SSG stressed in the statement that as the Special Adviser Ibadan Media City Project, Mr Layinka is ” to oversee the proposed transformation of the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State into a massive and formidable media, entertainment and cultural hub for South-West Nigeria.
The new responsibility of transforming BCOS into a hub is expected to include television and radio broadcasting production studios, theme parks/resorts, hospitality centre, a media academy and hosting venue for major live events in the sub-region.
The new Special Adviser, Communication and Strategy. Mr. Bolaji Tunji 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.
He 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.
