RCCG Pastor Laolu Akande resumes as
Osinbajo’s spokesperson



Vice Presidential Spokesman, Mr. Laolu Akande in a
warm embrace with Mr. Bayo Obisesan (r) at a
parley with State House Correspondents at the
Presidential Villa, Abuja. Photo by Abayomi
Adeshida
By Abiodun Alade
Former North American Bureau Chief of The
Guardian, Laolu Akande, has resumed as the
spokesman of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi
Osinbajo.
Pastor Akande was in the Aso Villa on Monday as
President Muhammadu Buhari and his V.P officially
relocated to the seat of power.
As a journalist reporting for the leading Nigerian
newspapers including The Guardian, Pastor Akande
is regarded as the longest serving African
correspondent at the United Nations, and the only
Nigerian journalist so far to have interviewed a
sitting American president in the White House when
he interviewed former President George W. Bush.
He has also exclusively interviewed American folk
hero, General Colin Powell, billionaires like
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Donald Trump and
several African leaders and presidents.
Pastor Akande started his journalism career as a
Reporter in 1989 writing for the Guardian titles
and later moved over to the founding team of The
News Magazine in 1993, where he became that
magazine’s Senior Writer. In 1995 he joined
Nigerian Tribune titled first as Special Projects
Editor and later became the Editor of Tribune on
Saturday in 1997, before he relocated to the US in
1998.
In the US where he is also an adjunct college
professor, Pastor Akande is the founder of
Empowered Newswire, and has continuously
reported about Nigerians and Nigerian issues
especially in the US and Canada in the last 13
years.
He had earlier worked with leading American
newspapers including the Philadelphia Inquirer, and
New York Newsday. Also at the United Nations, he
worked briefly as a Press Officer and later as
Advocacy Consultant between 2002-2004.
He became a pastor in 2007 at the Redeemed
Christian Church of God, Jesus Friends Assembly in
Long Island, New York. Pastor Akande is Christian
Association of Nigerian-Americans, CANAN’s
Executive Director.

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Good one

Pastor Osibanjo working for Imam Buhari, what sort of arrangement is this, recipe for disaster?

[quote author=ShineuEye post=35051567]Pastor Osibanjo working for Imam Buhari, what sort of arrangement is this, recipe for disaster? [/quote

Is it compulsory to comment... especially since you have nothing sensible to say

ShineuEye:
Pastor Osibanjo working for Imam Buhari, what sort of arrangement is this, recipe for disaster?

I'll be happy if this eediocy only starts and ends with you and not a family heritage.