Fayose Named REA Chair as Tinubu Makes 26 Fresh Appointments
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, as Chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA). Fayose is among the 26 fresh appointments announced into 10 Federal Government agencies and commissions on Monday. Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy to the President, in a statement on […]
A former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, as Chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).
Fayose is among the 26 fresh appointments announced into 10 Federal Government agencies and commissions on Monday.
Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy to the President, in a statement on Monday, said Tinubu has also appointed Major General Junaid Bindawa (rtd) as Chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission.
While Fayose heads the board of REA, Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta have been named as members and non-executive directors of the agency.
The Presidency said the incumbent DG of the agency, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, and three executive directors previously appointed make up the remaining board members.
President Tinubu also 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, is the new secretary of the commission.
Dr Ogbole Ene Lilian, Oladele Olatubosun, and Yakubu Umar Barde, representing Benue, Oyo and Kaduna, 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 Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission as Secretary.
President Tinubu also 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.
The statement added that Julius Oloro, a former Council Chairman, is the new CEO of the Kwara-based National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), replacing Dr A.R. Kamal, who died last January.
President Tinubu also constituted the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, with Dr Abdullahi Maikano Saidu as Chairman.
The board members include Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Aliyu Makama, Dr Suleiman Gidado, Louis O. Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola.
Shuni Muhammad Dahiru is 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.
To fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mathias Byuan, former Executive Director (Finance) of the Federal Housing Authority, who quit to pursue governorship ambition in Benue State, President Tinubu named Gisaor Vincent Iorja as replacement.
Iorja is an economist, legal scholar, and academic currently serving as the secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC).
Onanuga said all appointments take immediate effect.