GOVERNOR AMOSUN APPOINTS EX-TELL EDITOR AS MEDIA ADVISER

Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun on Tuesday announced and appointed a new Senior Special Assistant on Media.
He is Adejuwon Soyinka, publisher of Untold, a new investigative online publication.

A statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Taiwo Adeoluwa said the appointment of the multiple award-winning journalist takes immediate effect.
Before setting up Untold, Mr. Soyinka was deputy general editor and member of the editorial board of TELL Magazine, one of Nigeria’s most authoritative weekly.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in History and International Relations and Diploma in Law from the Lagos State University in 2005 and 2000 respectively.
He also bagged an Ordinary National Diploma in Journalism and Certificate in Basic News Writing and Reporting from the Nigeria Institute of Journalism in 1999.
Mr. Soyinka has won several awards, including Nigerian Media Merit Awards as Best Foreign News Reporter (2013), Human Rights Reporter (2012), Print Journalist and Human Rights Reporter of the Year (2011).
Other awards in his kitty are the Wole Soyinka Prize for Investigative Reporting (Climate Change Reporting Category) in 2010 and the Diamond Award for Media Excellence (DAME) Capital Market Reporting Award in 2009, among others.
The 38-year old indigene of Ogun State is a member of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE).