Senate President Bukola Saraki approved the appointment of Mr. Chuks Okocha, Thisday Politics Editor in Abuja and Environs and a former Regional Editor in the Niger Delta as his Special Assistant on Print Media.
Okocha holds a Masters Degree in Sustainable Environmental Management from Middlesex University in London.
Okocha comes to the job with a rich pedigree in journalism having covered the State House during the administrations of former military administrations of President Ibrahim Babangida, late Sani Abacha, Abdulsalami Abubakar and during the interim government of Chief Ernest Shonekan. He also covered the National Assembly at inception of the Fourth Republic in 1999.
In a statement released by the Deputy Clerk to the National Assembly, Mr. Ben Efeturi announcing the appointments, the Senate President has also appointed former Nation Senate Correspondent, Mr. Sanni Onogu as his Chief Press Secretary.
Mr. Bankole Omisore is Saraki’s Special Assistant on New Media.
The appointments, said Efeturi, take immediate effect.
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