President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, former House of Representatives member, Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas, Major General Junaid Bindawa (retd.), and 23 others into the boards and management of 10 Federal Government agencies and commissions.
The appointments were announced in a statement issued on Monday by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, who said all the appointments take immediate effect.
According to the statement, Fayose was appointed Chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency Board, while Bindawa will chair the National Salary and Wages Commission. Okoya-Thomas was named Secretary of the National Salary and Wages Commission.
The President also approved the appointment of Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta as members and non executive directors of the REA Board. The agency’s Director General, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, alongside three previously appointed executive directors, will complete the board.
For the National Salary and Wages Commission, Dr Ogbole Ene Lilian, representing Benue State, Oladele Olatubosun, representing Oyo State, and Yakubu Umar Barde, representing Kaduna State, were appointed as commissioners.
Other members of the commission include Dr Mai Adamu Yau from Borno State, Ginika Florence Tor from Enugu State, Engineer Lawrence Okoh from Edo State, and Bello Morenike Iyabode from Kogi State.
Tinubu also redeployed Tosin Johnson Adeyanju, who was previously appointed Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund, to serve as Secretary of the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission.
The President further approved the appointment of Dr Abuh Mohammed as Director General of the National Population Commission, Dr Akinola Odeyemi as Managing Director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc, and Dr Anthony Inalegwu Godwin as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission.
Engineer Julius Oloro was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation, replacing Dr A.R. Kamal, who died in January.
Tinubu also constituted the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, appointing Dr Abdullahi Maikano Saidu as Chairman. Other members are Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Aliyu Makama, Dr Suleiman Gidado, Louis O. Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola.
In addition, Shuni Muhammad Dahiru was appointed 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 in April.
The President also named Gisaor Vincent Iorja as Executive Director, Finance, of the Federal Housing Authority, replacing Mathias Byuan, who resigned to contest the Benue State governorship election.
According to Onanuga, “All the appointments take immediate effect.”
