RCCG Pastor Laolu Akande resumes as Osinbajo’s spokesperson

Former North American Bureau Chief of The
Guardian, Laolu Akande, has resumed as the
spokesman of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi
Osinbajo.
Pastor Akande was in the Aso Villa on Monday as
President Muhammadu Buhari and his V.P officially
relocated to the seat of power.
As a journalist reporting for the leading Nigerian
newspapers including The Guardian, Pastor Akande
is regarded as the longest serving African
correspondent at the United Nations, and the only
Nigerian journalist so far to have interviewed a
sitting American president in the White House when
he interviewed former President George W. Bush. He
has also exclusively interviewed American folk hero,
General Colin Powell, billionaires like Microsoft
founder Bill Gates and Donald Trump and several
African leaders and presidents.
Pastor Akande started his journalism career as a
Reporter in 1989 writing for the Guardian titles and
later moved over to the founding team of The News
Magazine in 1993, where he became that
magazine’s Senior Writer. In 1995 he joined Nigerian
Tribune titled first as Special Projects Editor and
later became the Editor of Tribune on Saturday in
1997, before he relocated to the US in 1998.
In the US where he is also an adjunct college
professor, Pastor Akande is the founder of
Empowered Newswire, and has continuously
reported about Nigerians and Nigerian issues
especially in the US and Canada in the last 13
years.
He had earlier worked with leading American
newspapers including the Philadelphia Inquirer, and
New York Newsday. Also at the United Nations, he
worked briefly as a Press Officer and later as
Advocacy Consultant between 2002-2004.
He became a pastor in 2007 at the Redeemed
Christian Church of God, Jesus Friends Assembly
in Long Island, New York. Pastor Akande
is Christian Association of Nigerian-
Americans, CANAN’s Executive Director.