The Publisher of Realnews, Maureen Chigbo, has emerged as the new President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers for the next two years.
Chigbo takes over from the Publisher of The Eagle Online, Dotun Oladipo, after he served out two terms of two years each.
Chigbo was elected the third president of GOCOP alongside 14 others as the new set of Executive Committee at the Annual General Meeting of the Guild on Wednesday at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.
Also elected were Danlami Nmodu (mni) as the Deputy President; Ken Ugbechie as Vice President, South; Tom Chaiheman, Vice President, North; Collins Edomaruse as General Secretary; Olumide Iyanda, Deputy General Secretary; Remmy Nweke, Publicity Secretary; Azu Arinze as Financial Secretary; and Yemisi Izuora emerged the Treasurer.
Equally at the AGM, Max Amuchie, Horatius Egua, James Ume, Akeem Oyetunji, Raymond Ukaegbu and Tony Edike were elected Zonal Coordinators for the North Central, North East, North West, South West, South South and South East respectively.
In her acceptance speech on behalf of her new executive council team, Chigbo pledged to do her best in uplifting the ideals of GOCOP and credibility of members with the support and cooperation of the group.
The 2021 GOCOP Election Committee was chaired by Yusuf Ozi-Usman, Publisher of Greenberg Reporters, while Afolabi Odeyemi of YouNews was the Secretary.
Other members of the committee were Dr. Monday Ashibogwu, Wole Tokede and Kazeem Akintunde.
GOCOP is a registered non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit organisation comprising owners of online publications, who previously worked as professional journalists in major mainstream media organisations.
The newly elected executive committee will be inaugurated on Thursday at the same venue.