PRINCE SEGUN AKANNI: Profile of New Chief Of Staff to Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba Land

Before his appointment, Prince Segun Akanni was the Personal Assistant to the Aare Ona Kakanfo. Born to a Royal family in Ileogbo, Ayedire Area of Osun and  had his both Primary and Secondary schools education in Ileogbo.

Akanni holds a  Diploma and Degree in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management (IRPM). from the  Lagos State University, LASU Ojo, Lagos .

He also holds a  Diploma in Tourism management from the  International School of Aviation in Ghana.
He  joined Oodua People’s Congress in the late 1998 in Ijeshatedo, and  later moved to Ojo area of Lagos state where he started his career in OPC as the zonal secretary of Tedi zone. In 1999, he was elevated to the position of Local Government Publicity Secretary in Ojo.

His  commitment to the emancipation of  the Yoruba race earned him an appointment in the office of the National Coordinator of the OPC in year2002
as the Protocol Officer II  and  media Assistant to Otunba Gani Adams.
In 2007,  Akanni became The Personal Assistant to Otunba Gani Adams, the position he maintained until his new appointment as The Chief of Staff to the New AARE Gani Adams.

Prince Akanni has been to over fifty countries in the course of propagating the gospel of Oodua Progressive Union (OPU) with Aare Onakakanfo, OPU, an organization formed by the Are Onakakanfo for the Yorubas in diaspora with Chapters in over seventy eight counties.

Akanni, an author and publisher of books and online media firm recently wrote a book in honor of Otunba Gani Adams which he titled: The Volunteer of Savanah in 2015. He is married to Mrs Folashade Akanni and the marriage is blessed with children.