The
Board of Directors of The Sun Publishing Limited and Daily Telegraph Publishing
Company Limited have announced management changes at New Telegraph newspapers.
Mr.Eric Osagie becomes the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief, while
Messrs Gabriel Akinadewo and Felix Abugu would serve as Deputy Managing
Directors. The appointments take effect September 1, 2014.
Other appointments which have since been effected
include that of Mallam Suleiman Uba Gaya and Mr. Yemi Ajayi, Managing Editor
and Editor, New Telegraph, respectively.
Under the strategic restructuring, Mr Osagie,
Deputy Managing Director/Deputy Editor-in-Chief of The Sun, is proceeding on
sabbatical to New Telegraph.
A consummate professional, Mr Osagie, is expected
to bring to bear on the newspaper his wealth of experience and contacts in the
political and corporate worlds.
With a robust journalism career spanning over two
decades, Osagie rose steadily through the ranks from staff writer, to chief
correspondent, deputy features editor and was appointed features editor of
National Concord in 1998. He was also Saturday editor of National Interest, and
had a stint at ThisDay newspaper in 1995.
He was pioneer editor of the Abuja bureau of
The Sun newspapers in 2002, from where he rose to the position of Editor,
Northern Operations, and later Managing Editor. He had earlier served as
Special Adviser, Public Affairs and Strategy to Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo
State.
In January 2010, Osagie was appointed to the Board
of The Sun Publishing Limited, and served as Executive Director, Special
Services, supervising the editorial and business interests of the newspaper
group in the nation's capital and the Northern region. In December 2013,
he was re-designated Executive Director (Publications) supervising editorial,
sales& operations and the commercial printing departments of the newspaper
company, and subsequently named Deputy Managing Director/Deputy Editor-in-Chief
in May 2014. He is a member of the Nigerian Guild of Editors and the Nigerian
Union of Journalists.
Mr.
Gabriel Akinadewo, Deputy Managing Director, was Daily Editor
and acting Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of New Telegraph, before the
restructuring.