Buhari Felicitates With Foremost Journalist Akpandem James On 60th Birthday

 President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated foremost journalist, Akpandem James, on the occasion of his 60th birthday on June 29, 2022.

In a congratulatory message by his media aide, Mr Femi Adesina on Tuesday in Abuja, the president applauded James for the more than three decades of commitment to a profession that “informs, educates, entertains, and sets agenda for public discourse’’. 

The president lauded a career that had seen the journalist traversing the defunct Concord Press, The Punch, Daily Independent, where James was founding editor, and later, Managing Editor. 

He acknowledged the journalist’s contributions to national development, particularly through a recently released 633-page book, The National Conversation: Interests and Intrigues, that shaped the 2014 National Conference. 

He rejoiced with the media family, notably the Nigeria Guild of Editors, of which James is a Fellow, and the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ). 

Buhari wished the celebrator good health, long life, and more germane contributions to the profession he loved. 

GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that on the sidelines of the 60th birthday that Akpandem James presented his landmark book on the 2014 National Conference summoned by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Akpandem James was a secretariat staff at the conference and has used his book on the conference to open up on some of the intrigues that characterised the national conference.

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