President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of 26 officials to the boards and leadership of 10 Federal Government agencies and commissions, with former Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose named chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).
The appointments were announced in a statement issued on Monday by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, who said all appointments take immediate effect.
The appointments are as follows:
Rural Electrification Agency (REA)
Chairman: Ayo Fayose
Members/Non-Executive Directors: Ahmadu Abubakar, Ilyasu Makinta
Director-General: Abba Aliyu (member of the board)
Also on the board: Three previously appointed executive directors
National Salary and Wages Commission
Chairman: Major General Junaid Bindawa
Secretary: Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas
Commissioners:
Ogbole Lilian (Benue)
Oladele Olatubosun (Oyo)
Yakubu Barde (Kaduna)
Members:
Mai Adamu Yau (Borno)
Ginika Tor (Enugu)
Lawrence Okoh (Edo)
Bello Iyabode (Kogi)
Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission
Secretary: Tosin Adeyanju (reassigned from the National Lottery Trust Fund)
National Population Commission (NPC)
Director-General: Abuh Mohammed
Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET)
Managing Director: Akinola Odeyemi
Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission
Chairman/Chief Executive Officer: Anthony Godwin
National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM)
Chief Executive Officer: Julius Oloro (replacing A. R. Kamal)
Fiscal Responsibility Commission
Chairman: Abdullahi Saidu
Board Members:
Mohammed Asmau
Mohammed Makama
Suleiman Gidado
Louis O. Ndukwe
Amaechi Ugwele
Olaniyi Onikola
National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education
Executive Secretary: Shuni Dahiru (replacing Shu’aibu Aliyu)
Federal Housing Authority
Executive Director (Finance): Gisaor Vincent Iorja (replacing Mathias Byuan)
The statement also announced the reassignment of Tosin Adeyanju.
“Tosin Adeyanju, who was previously appointed as the Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), has now been moved to the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission as Secretary,” the statement partly read.
It further stated:
“President Tinubu also appointed Abuh Mohammed as Director-General of the National Population Commission (NPC), Akinola Odeyemi as Managing Director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET), and Anthony Godwin as chairman/CEO of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission.
“Julius Oloro, a former council chairman, is the new CEO of the Kwara-based National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), replacing A. R. Kamal, who died last January,” the statement added.
On the appointment of Gisaor Vincent Iorja, the Presidency said:
“To replace Mathias Byuan, the former Executive Director (Finance) of the Federal Housing Authority, who resigned to contest the governorship election in Benue, President Tinubu named Gisaor Iorja.
“Iorja is an economist, legal scholar, and academic currently serving as the secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC),” the statement added.
