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ABUJA – President Bola Tinubu has appointed former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, as chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA). Tinubu also announced the appointment of heads of 10 Federal Government agencies and commissions.
Major General Junaid Bindawa made the list of appointees as chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission. Fayose is expected to head the board of REA, with Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta appointed as members and non-executive directors.
A statement by Tinubu’s media aide, Bayo Onanuga, on Monday, noted that the incumbent DG of the agency, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, and three executive directors previously appointed will make up the remaining board members. Onanuga said the president made eight other appointments to the Wages Commission, along with Maj General Bindawa.
Former member of the House of Representatives from Lagos, Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas, as new secretary of the commission. While Dr. Ogbole Ene Lilian, Oladele Olatubosun, and Yakubu Umar Barde, representing Benue, Oyo and Kaduna, respectively, were appointed as commissioners.
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, who was previously appointed as the Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), has now been moved to the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission as Secretary.
The Nigerian president equally appointed Dr. Abuh Mohammed as Director-General of the National Population Commission, Dr. Akinola Odeyemi as Managing Director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET), and Dr. Anthony Inalegwu Godwin as chairman/CEO of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission.
Engineer Julius Oloro, a former council chairman, was appointed as the new CEO of the Kwara-based National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), replacing Dr. A.R. Kamal, who died last January. Onanuga said the president constituted the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, with Dr. Abdullahi Maikano Saidu as chairman.
He noted that the board members include Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Aliyu Makama, Dr. Suleiman Gidado, Louis O. Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola. Others are Shuni Muhammad Dahiru as 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.
