ECOWAS Hails Tinubu For Seconding Media Aide To Commission President As Adviser

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, has expressed gratitude to Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu for the secondment of one of his newly appointed media aides, Mrs. Linda Nwabuwa Akhigbe, as Communication Adviser to him.

President Tinubu on Monday appointed Mrs Akhigbe as Senior Special Assistant to the President on Strategic Communications and seconded to the ECOWAS Commission President as Communication Adiver.

Reacting to the development, Dr Touray,
in a statement released by the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja on Monday, wished Mrs. Akhigbe success in her new role.

According to the statement, the secondment, which is for a renewable term of three months, takes immediate effect.

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It reads: “The ECOWAS Commission is pleased to announce that the Presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has deployed on secondment Nigerian television broadcaster and presidential aide, Mrs. Linda Nwabuwa Akhigbe, as the Communications Adviser to the President of the ECOWAS Commission.

“Mrs. Linda Nwabuwa Akhigbe is a broadcast veteran with 18 years of experience in the media industry, with most of that experience gathered at Nigeria’s award-winning television news network, Channels Television, where she has worked since 2008.

“Mrs. Akhigbe was educated at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, where she graduated with a Master’s degree in Media, Communications, and Public Relations, following her studies in Mass Communication at the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, in Edo State, Nigeria.

“ECOWAS looks forward to reaching the world with a new voice that is reflective of the diversity and talent of the many brilliant young people in the sub-region.

“The President of ECOWAS Commission expresses gratitude to H.E. President Tinubu for the secondment and wishes Mrs. Linda Nwabuwa Akhigbe success in her new role.”