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Ovie 0mo-Agege, deputy senate president, has approved the appointments of Otive Igbuzor and Yomi Odunuga as his chief of staff and special adviser on media and publicity respectively.

In a statement he issued on Thursday, Omo-Agege also announced the appointment of Lara Owoeye-Wise (pictured) as his senior special assistant on electronic and new media.

He said he appointments takes immediate effect.

Igbuzor is the founding executive director of the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD), and was once the international head of campaigns of ActionAid International as well as country director of ActionAid Nigeria.

He was also a programme co-ordinator at the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), and a former lecturer at the Delta State University.

Until his appointment, Odunuga was the Abuja bureau chief of The Nation newspapers.

The 53-year-old started his journalism career at the PUNCH, where he worked for over two decades, including as the newspaper’s bureau chief in Abuja, and its group political editor.

Owoeye-Wise, a media aide to the immediate past deputy speaker of the house of representatives, is also a journalist whose experience spreads across both the print and electronic media.

Among the organisations she had worked are PUNCH, The News Magazine, Silverbird TV and Africa Independent Television (AIT).