Laolu Akande

Laolu Akande is a Nigerian journalist, editor, writer scholar and lecturer. He is the current spokesperson of the Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. Before he was named Vice Presidential Spokesperson, Akande was reporting for Empowered Newswire, a US-based news agency and was also a former North America Bureau Chief for The Guardian (Nigeria) in New York City, United States. Akande's career in Journalism started in 1989 when he joined the Guardian Newspapers as a reporter, where he covered education. Akande's incisive coverage of the 1992 ASUU strike exposed the impasse between the Federal Government of Nigeria led by former head of state, General Ibrahim Babangida, and the striking lecturers.