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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced 26 new appointments into 10 Federal Government agencies and commissions, with former Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, emerging as chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), and Major General Junaid Bindawa as chairman of the National Salaries and Wages Commission.
Fayose chairs the REA board, with Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta appointed as members and non-executive directors. The agency’s current director general, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, and three previously appointed executive directors are the remaining members of the board.
The new appointments were announced in a statement on Monday by Bayo Onanuga, Special Advisor to the President, (Information and Strategy).
President Tinubu appointed eight other people to the Wages Commission, along with Major General Bindawa. A former member of Parliament from Lagos, Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas, has become the new secretary of the commission. Dr Ogbole Ene Lilian, Oladele Olatubosun, and Yakubu Umar Barde, representing Benue, Oyo and Kaduna, were appointed as commissioners.
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Dr Mai Adamu Yau, from Borno, Ginika Florence Tor (Enugu), Engineer Lawrence Okoh (Edo) and Bello Morenike Iyabode (Kogi) were appointed as members of the Commission.
Tosin Johnson Adeyanju, previously appointed as Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), has now been transferred to the Revenue and Fiscal Mobilization Commission as Secretary.
President Tinubu also appointed Dr Abuh Mohammed as Director General of the National Population Commission, Dr Akinola Odeyemi as Managing Director of Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET), and Dr Anthony Inalegwu Godwin as chairman/CEO of the Nigerian Atomic Energy Commission. Engineer Julius Oloro, former chairman of the council, is the new CEO of the Kwara-based National Center for Agricultural Mechanization (NCAM), succeeding Dr AR Kamal, who died last January.
President Tinubu established the Fiscal Responsibility Commission board, with Dr Abdullahi Maikano Saidu as its chairman. Board members include Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Aliyu Makama, Dr Suleiman Gidado, Louis O. Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola.
Shuni Muhammad Dahiru is the new executive secretary of the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education, replacing Professor Shu’aibu Shehu Aliyu, who was reassigned to the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF) in April.
To replace Mathias Byuan, former executive director of finance of the Federal Housing Authority, who resigned to contest the governorship election in Benue, President Tinubu appointed Gisaor Vincent Iorja. Iorja is an economist, legal scholar and academic who currently serves as secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC).
All appointments will take effect immediately.
