New Telegraph, The SUN get new MDs

Egbemode and Osagie

The Board of Directors of Daily Telegraph Publishing Company Limited has approved the appointment of Mrs. Funke Egbemode as the new Managing Director/ Editor-in-Chief for the newspapers. Until her appointment, she was the General Editor of The Sun, a sister company.

Egbemode succeeds Mr. Eric Osagie, who is returning to The Sun Publishing Limited as Managing Director/Editor- in-Chief. Osagie had been on secondment to New Telegraph since September. The board of directors yesterday approved the appointment of Osagie to succeed Mr. Femi Adesina whose appointment as Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari was announced on Sunday evening. Osagie was the Deputy Managing Director/Deputy Editor-in-Chief before his secondment to New Telegraph as Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief. Also, a new Deputy Managing Director/ Deputy Editor-in-Chief has been appointed for The Sun.
He is Mr. Steve Nwosu, who, until now, was the Executive Director, Corporate Services. All the appointments take immediate effect. 
Egbemode, a 1988 graduate of English Studies from Obafemi Awolowo University, joined The Sun in 2007 as Editor-at-Large and was appointed Editor, Sunday Sun in March 2008. After a five-year tenure, she was promoted General Editor, a position she held until yesterday. Before coming to The Sun, Egbemode had worked in various capacities in the newsrooms of The Punch, THISDAY, The Post Express and Independent Newspapers, where she was the pioneer Saturday Editor.
Outside the newsroom, she also served in the public sector as Assistant Chief Press Secretary at the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) and Special Adviser (Media) to former Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Patricia Etteh. She is the author of INTIMATE AFFAIRS and CONVERSATIONS WITH MY COUNTRY. She is the Social and Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) and currently a member of the Board of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN). Osagie, whose journalism career spans over 25 years, joined The Sun in 2002 as pioneer Editor of Abuja Bureau and was later promoted Editor, Northern Operations. In 2008, he was appointed Special Adviser, Public Affairs and Strategy to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State. He returned to The Sun the following year as Managing Editor.
In 2010, Osagie became Executive Director, Special Services, in charge of the editorial and business interests of the newspaper in the nation’s capital and the northern region. 
In December 2013, he was made Executive Director, Publications, and placed in charge of editorial, commercial and sales departments of the company. 
A prose stylist, public affairs analyst and one of Nigeria’s most engaging interviewers, Osagie rose through the ranks as staff writer, chief correspondent, deputy features editor of the award winning defunct Weekend Concord, and was later appointed features editor of National Concord in 1998.
He had earlier had a brief stint with THISDAY newspapers and the National Interest, where he served as one of the pioneer editors. 
He is expected to deploy his wealth of professional experience and wide contacts in the political and corporate worlds, in taking the foremost newspaper establishment to the next level. 
Nwosu, a 1991 graduate of Mass Communication from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and an alumnus of Lagos Business School, started his journalism practice with The Guardian in 1992 as a reporter.
He left The Guardian to join THISDAY in 1997. 
At THISDAY, he rose rapidly from correspondent to hold other positions such as Features Editor, Political Editor, Deputy Editor/Editor, THISDAY Style. He eventually became Editor of THISDAY on Saturday and later member of the newspaper Editorial Board. He joined The Sun at its inception as Editor of the Saturday Sun. He moved on to become the Editor of Daily Sun and later General Editor, Magazines.
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