President Bola Tinubu has announced 26 new appointments into 10 Federal Government agencies and commissions, with former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, emerging as chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), and Major General Junaid Bindawa (Rtd), as chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission.
Fayose heads the board of REA, with Ahmadu Abubakar and Ilyasu Makinta appointed as members and non-executive directors. The incumbent DG of the agency, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, and three executive directors previously appointed, make up the remaining board members.
President Tinubu 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. Ogbole Lilian, Oladele Olatubosun, and Yakubu Barde, representing Benue, Oyo and Kaduna, were appointed as commissioners.
Mai Adamu Yau, from Borno, Ginika Florence Tor (Enugu), Lawrence Okoh (Edo) and Bello Morenike Iyabode (Kogi) were also 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.
President Tinubu also appointed Abuh Mohammed as Director-General of the National Population Commission, Akinola Odeyemi as Managing Director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET), and Anthony Inalegwu Godwin as chairman/CEO of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission. Engineer 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.
President Tinubu also constituted the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, with Abdullahi Saidu as chairman. The board members include Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Makama, Suleiman Gidado, Louis O. Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola.
Similarly, Shuni 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 replace Mathias Byuan, the former executive director, finance of the Federal Housing Authority, who resigned to contest the governorship election in Benue State, 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).
According to the Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, all the appointments take immediate effect.