Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja
One month after he was inaugurated, President Muhammadu Buhari has made his first appointments, He has appointed Sunday Aghaeze and Bayo Omoboriowo as personal assistants in charge of Photography.
The appointments were contained in letters signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha.
“I am pleased to inform you that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved your appointment as Personal Assistant to the President (State Photographer),” their appointment letters read.
Aghaeze and Omoboriowo were first appointed in 2016 by the president to the same post where they served till their reappointment.
Aghaeze, an award-winning photo-journalist, prior to his appointment, was a photo editor with ThisDay newspapers in Abuja.
He holds a post-graduate diploma in Business Administration of University of Abuja, Higher National Diploma and National Diploma in Mass Communications, Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra and Auchi in Edo, State respectively.
A widely travelled photo-journalist, Aghaeze had covered the UN, World Bank, IMF, African First Ladies’ activities in several countries in the America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
He was 2007 Best Photo Journalist of the year, and 2010 second runner up photo journalist at Wole Soyinka Award 2010, among others.
He is a member of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Photo-journalists Association of Nigeria (PJAN), among others.
Omoboriowo, a graduate of Pure and Applied Chemistry from University of Lagos is an indigene of Ekiti State. Before his appointment, he was a documentary photographer.