Adesina re-elected NGE president

Femi Adesina, managing director of The Sun Newspaper, has been re-elected as the president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE).

Adeshina, along with some executive members of the association were returned unopposed during the 2015 biennial convention of the NGE, which held in Lagos on Saturday.

The other executive members re-elected were Garbadeen Mohammed,  (deputy president),  Suleiman Gaya, (vice president north); Victor Agusiobo, (vice-president  east) and Steve Ayorinde (vice president  west).

Others are Mary Atolagbe (asst general secretary); Ogbang Akwaji, (treasurer) and Funke Egbemode, (social and publicity secretary).

However, Victoria Ibanga and Mustapha Isah contested for the post of national secretary and Ibanga won the position with 115 votes against Isah’s 103 votes.

Sani Adamu, deputy editor-in-chief of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), was among the seven persons who won membership of the guild’s standing committee.