President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, as Chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), alongside 25 other appointments into various federal agencies.
The appointments were announced on Monday in a statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
Fayose will lead the REA board, while Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta were appointed as members and non-executive directors. The board also includes the agency’s Director-General, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, and three executive directors who were previously appointed.
President Tinubu also appointed retired Major General Junaid Bindawa as Chairman of the National Salary and Wages Commission.
Former House of Representatives member, Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas, was named Secretary of the commission. Other appointees as commissioners are Dr. Ogbole Ene Lilian, Oladele Olatubosun and Yakubu Umar Barde, representing Benue, Oyo and Kaduna states.
Dr. Mai Adamu Yau (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 earlier appointed Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), has now been redeployed as Secretary of the Revenue Mobilisation 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 (NBET).
- Dr. Anthony Inalegwu Godwin as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission.
- Engineer Julius Oloro as Chief Executive Officer of the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), replacing the late Dr. A.R. Kamal.
President Tinubu also approved the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, with Dr. Abdullahi Maikano Saidu appointed as Chairman. Other board 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 (PTDF) in April.
To fill the vacant position of Executive Director (Finance) at the Federal Housing Authority, the President appointed Gisaor Vincent Iorja. He replaces Mathias Byuan, who resigned to contest the Benue State governorship election. Iorja is an economist, legal scholar and currently serves as Secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC).
According to the presidency, all the appointments take immediate effect.
