PerSecondNews Names Ex-NAN Editor, Akinsola Olakunle Managing Editor

Nigerian online newspaper, PerSecondNews.com, has announced the appointment of a former deputy editor-in-chief of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Akinsola Olakunle Ayodele, as its new managing editor.

A statement sent to THE WHISTLER on Thursday said the newspaper also elevated Stella Igwe-Adesoga to the position of deputy editor.

The statement said the medium named Opeyemi Abegunde as its weekend editor.

PerSecondNews Publisher/CEO, Femi Soneye, said the organization decided to rejig its team to better serve its readers and “strengthen its operations.”

Soneye said the appointments take immediate effect.

According to the company, the new managing editor brings to bear, “34 years experience in broadcast, print and wire journalism,” adding that he is, “an alumnus of School of Media and Communication of the Pan-Atlantic University, Lekki, Lagos, Akinsola also attended Nigeria’s premier monotechnic – the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Lagos, and studied English/ English Literature at the Lagos State University (LASU).”

According to the statement, Akinsola, “was a reporter at the defunct Concord Newspapers and Ondo Radio and Television before joining the state-run NAN in 1989 as well as a co-author of a biography on a one-time Ogun State Military Governor, Navy Capt. Oladeinde Joseph, entitled, “The Legacy’’.”

PSN said its new deputy editor, Igwe-Adesoga, started her career, “as a copygirl for the defunct Oklahoma Daily News. After about eight years’ stint at the newspaper, she joined the Herald as a Weekend Editor. She has been with Persecondnews since 2015 and currently lives in Vermont, USA.

“Opeyemi Abegunde is a graduate of Political Science from the University of Calabar and currently serves as a media consultant to Alliance Francaise. Abegunde takes charge as the Special Project Editor of Persecondnews.”