Nigeria, Nov. 8 -- The Yobe State House of Assembly on Thursday confirmed Governor Mai-Mala Buni's nomination of Abdullahi Bego as a commissioner in his would-be cabinet.

The former Northeast Bureau Chief of Daily Trust was screened alongside 19 other nominees, including a former senator, Alkali Jajere, also an ex-journalist with Yobe TV.

Mr Bego, a former Deputy Editor with Daily Trust, is the longest-serving Government House spokesperson in the state. He was until this week the Director-General of Press and Media Affairs to Governor Buni.

The veteran image-maker is the only journalist in the state to serve three different governors, back to back, as a press secretary or special adviser on media.

Since 2007 when late ex-Governor Mamm...