{"id":23480,"date":"2018-12-11T04:22:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T03:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=23480"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:53:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T09:53:24","slug":"adesina-femi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/adesina-femi\/","title":{"rendered":"ADESINA, Femi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Femi Adesina is a Nigerian journalist and government official, serving as the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari.<br \/>\nFemi Adeshina started his career in journalism as a writer for Radio Lagos, he then later joined Vanguard Newspapers. Adesina wrote for Vanguard Newspapers and National Concord Newspapers before joining The Sun Newspaper, where he rose to editor-in-chief. He also served a two-year term as president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors. Although re-elected for a second term as Guild president, Adesina stepped down after receiving his government appointment. He also stepped down as editor-in-chief of The Sun. Adesina was sworn-in as special adviser on media and publicity to Buhari on August 31, 2015 alongside Babachi Lawal, who was appointed Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria.<br \/>\nHe was named Editor of the Year for 2007 by the Nigeria Media Merit Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24951,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2449,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-23480","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journalist","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/23480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/23480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23500,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/23480\/revisions\/23500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23480"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=23480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}