Akinyemi Named DG Of Ekiti State Communication Bureau

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Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti has appointed Mr Kayode Akinyemi as the Director General of the newly-created Bureau of Strategic Communications.

This was contained in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Monday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Yinka Oyebode. The Bureau, according to the release, was created to conceptualise and coordinate the communication initiatives of government and promote its eight-point agenda. Akinyemi, whose appointment takes immediate effect, is a journalist, broadcaster and Advertising/Public Relations Practitioner with experience in marketing communications. He was until his appointment the official representative of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in Nigeria.

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Akinyemi had also served as Head of Corporate Communications at Skye Bank Plc where he was in charge of the bank’s internal and external communications. He was born on March 1, 1966, in Afao- Ekiti, Ifelodun/Irepodun Local Government Area of Ekiti.

Akinyemi read Mass Communication and started his career as a Reporter with Radio Nigeria in 1988 before he ventured into Public Relations and Advertising in 1989.

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