The General Manager/Editor-in-Chief of Vanguard Newspapers, Mr Gbenga Adefaye, has been appointed as Provost of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ, Ogba, Ikeja.
A statement signed in Lagos on Monday by former governor of Ogun State, and chairman of the Governing Council of the NIJ, Chief Olusegun Osoba, said Adefaye would serve as Provost of the institution with effect from September 1, 2020 pending the appointment of a new Provost.
He succeeds the former Provost, Mr Gbemiga Ogunleye, who has served out his term meritoriously.
Adefaye was a two-term president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors.
The NIJ is a Nigerian monotechnic institute located at Ogba in Ikeja, Lagos State.
It is a diploma-awarding monotechnic established in 1963 by the International Press Institute.
Source: NAN
