President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of 26 individuals to the boards and management of 10 federal government agencies and commissions.
The appointments, which take immediate effect, were announced on Monday in a statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
Among those appointed is former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, who will serve as chairman of the board of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).
Fayose will lead the REA board alongside Ahmadu Abubakar and Ilyasu Makinta, who were appointed as members and non-executive directors. The agency’s Director-General, Abba Aliyu, and three previously appointed executive directors will also serve on the board.
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President Tinubu also named retired Major General Junaid Bindawa as chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), while former member of the House of Representatives, Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas, was appointed secretary of the commission.
Lists of Other Commission Members
Other members of the commission include Ogbole Lilian (Benue), Oladele Olatubosun (Oyo), Yakubu Barde (Kaduna), Mai Adamu Yau (Borno), Ginika Tor (Enugu), Lawrence Okoh (Edo) and Bello Iyabode (Kogi).
In another appointment, Tosin Adeyanju, who previously served as Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), was redeployed as Secretary of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).
The President also approved the appointment of Abuh Mohammed as Director-General of the National Population Commission (NPC), Akinola Odeyemi as Managing Director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) Plc, and Anthony Godwin as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC).
Julius Oloro was named Chief Executive Officer of the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), replacing A.R. Kamal, who died in January.
Tinubu also inaugurated the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC), appointing Abdullahi Saidu as chairman.
Other members of the board are Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Makama, Suleiman Gidado, Louis Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Onikola.
Shuni Dahiru was appointed Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (NMEC), replacing Shu’aibu Shehu Aliyu, who was reassigned to the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) in April.
Also appointed was Gisaor Iorja, an economist and Secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC), who will serve as Executive Director (Finance) of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA). He replaces Mathias Byuan, who resigned to pursue the Benue State governorship.
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