President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of 26 persons into the boards and leadership of 10 federal government agencies and commissions, naming former Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose as Chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).
The appointments, which take immediate effect, were announced in a statement on Monday by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
According to the statement, Fayose will chair the REA board alongside Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta as non-executive directors. The board also comprises the agency’s Director-General, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, and three previously appointed executive directors.
Tinubu also appointed Major General Junaid Bindawa (retd.) as Chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission and approved eight additional appointments into the commission.
Former member of the House of Representatives, Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas, was appointed Secretary of the commission, while Dr Ogbole Ene Lilian, Oladele Olatubosun and Yakubu Umar Barde were named commissioners representing Benue, Oyo and Kaduna states, respectively.
The President also appointed Dr Mai Adamu Yau (Borno), Ginika Florence Tor (Enugu), Engineer Lawrence Okoh (Edo) and Bello Morenike Iyabode (Kogi) as members of the commission.
Tinubu further redeployed Tosin Johnson Adeyanju, the immediate past Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund, as Secretary of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission.
Other appointments include Dr Abuh Mohammed as Director-General of the National Population Commission; Dr Akinola Odeyemi as Managing Director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc; Dr Anthony Inalegwu Godwin as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission; and Engineer Julius Oloro as Chief Executive Officer of the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM).
According to the Presidency, Oloro replaces 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 of the board are Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Aliyu Makama, Dr Suleiman Gidado, Louis O. Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola.
In addition, the President appointed Shuni Muhammad Dahiru as 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.
He 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.
The Presidency said all the appointments take immediate effect.
