GOVERNOR ORTOM APPOINTS CHIEF PRESS SECRETARY

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has directed the elevation of Mr. Terver Akase, from the position of Senior Special Assistant on Media to Chief Press Secretary. A letter signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Targema Takema, stated that the change of status be effected from 22nd September, 2015. Mr. Akase, 38, who hails from Agbeede, Konshisha local government area of Benue State, is a graduate of Mass Communication from Benue State University, Makurdi. He received professional training in journalism at the Universities of Columbia and Missouri in the United States of America. Before his appointment, he was a principal editor at the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, headquarters, Abuja. Mr. Akase also served as FRCN Correspondent in Rivers State during which he was also Chairman, Federated Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists after which he was the corporation’s Senior Editor in Enugu.