EX-CONCORD WORKERS TO HONOUR BELLO, ADESINA, ODUSILE, OTHERS

Former workers of Concord Press have concluded arrangements to honour their colleagues, Tunji Bello, Femi Adesina, Waheed Odusile, Ohi Alegbe, Eric Osagie, Sani Zoro and Jide Orintunsin, who were recently appointed into various positions of authority at the federal, state and private sectors. The event, to be attended by both editorial and non-editorial personnel of the defunct Concord Press, will hold at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja on Friday (September 11), by 7p.m.
Bello is the current Secretary to the Lagos State Government, Adesina is the Special Adviser Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Waheed Odusile, was recently elected as the new National President of the Nigerian Union Journalists (NUJ), Ohi Alegbe the Group General Manager, Public Affairs, NNPC, Eric Osagie, took over from Adesina as the MD/Editor-In-Chief) Sun Newspaper; Sani Zoro, a one-time National President of the NUJ, was elected in the April polls as representative in the lower chamber of the National Assembly representing one of the consistuencies in Jigawa State and  Jide Orintunsin was last week appointed the SSA Media and Publicity to the Niger State Governor.
Goke Odeyinka, the co-ordinator of the programme, stated that “the event is not just a reception but a reunion of all those who have one-time or other served and worked in Concord Press in editorial, advert, accounts, security, canteen or any department to meet, interact and network after a long while they were compulsorily separated in 2001”