Tag: APPOINTMENTS

Tinubu appoints Fayose, 25 others to federal agencies

Aminu Imam
Tinubu appointments on MDAs

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointments of 26 individuals to the boards and leadership of 10 federal agencies and commissions. Ayo Fayose, the former Governor of Ekiti State, will serve as the Chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA). The President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, announced these appointments in a statement yesterday. Fayose will lead the REA Board, with Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta joining as members and non-executive directors. The Board also includes the agency’s Director-General, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, along with…

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President Tinubu makes fresh appointments

Aminu Imam
Tinubu on appointments

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved new appointments in the leadership of recently established federal universities of education. The appointments were conveyed via a statement released yesterday by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. The President named Engineer AbdulRazaq Abubakar Nakore as Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Yusuf Maitama Sule Federal University of Education, Kano. Nakore, a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, previously served as Executive Secretary of the Rural Electricity Board in Jigawa State. Similarly, Prof. Abdullahi Tukur Kodage was appointed…

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Tinubu’s lopsided allocations: Northern Summit highlights regional imbalance 

Aminu Imam
Northern Summit

…Calls for equity  A powerful chorus of Northern voices has emerged from Kaduna, where regional leaders, stakeholders, and policy experts converged at two separate but thematically-aligned gatherings to address growing concerns over federal neglect and demanding a more equitable distribution of national resources. At the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation (SABMF) Summit, a communiqué signed by the Foundation’s Director-General, Dr. Abubakar Gambo Umar, outlined sweeping recommendations to redress long-standing developmental disparities in Northern Nigeria.  The participants called for urgent federal investment in critical infrastructure such as the Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano (AKK) gas…

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Tinubu assigns Presidential liaison aides to 6 geo-political zones

Aminu Imam
Tinubu assigns

As part of efforts to cascade down all the different government policies and programmes to the populace, President Bola Tinubu has given his nod to the Presidential Community Engagement Initiative, with a mandate to all presidential aides to engage with the citizens directly. In a statement issued yesterday by the Head of Media, Presidential Community Engagement Office, Seun Ajayi said following the Presidents recent national broadcast, a wave of discussions has emerged on the need for the administration to engage with the members of the public through its appointees on…

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FG appoints new DGs for NBC, NAN, NTA, VON, others

Aminu Imam

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of eight (8) new Chief Executive Officers for Parastatals and Agencies under the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation. This was contained in a statement issued by Special Adviser to the President, Media & Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, yesterday. Among those affected by the sack are Director-General of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Shehu Illelah; and Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Buki Ponle, Those newly appointed heads of agencies are: National Orientation Agency (NOA) Director-General / CEO – Lanre Issa-Onilu; Federal…

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Gov. Ganduje approves 3 appointments

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has approved the appointment of Dr Yusif Musa as the Provost RMK College of Advanced and Remedial Studies (CARS), and Saminu Bello as Registrar of Saadatu Rimi College of Education (SRCOE). The Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the governor, who made the disclosure on Sunday in Kano, said the governor also approved the appointment of Garba Bako Gezawa as Permanent Secretary/Clerk, Kano State House of Assembly.  He said in a statement that all the appointments were with immediate effect and directed all the appointees to…

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