By RhemDy News
President Bola Tinubu has appointed former Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose as the Chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).
Fayose's appointment was among 25 other new appointments made by the President on Monday into 10 Federal Government agencies and commissions.
According to a statement my presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga on Monday, Tinubu also appointed Major General Junaid Bindawa as chairman of the National Salary and Wages Commission.
Onanuga said Fayose heads the board of REA while Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta have both been appointed as members and non-executive directors.
The incumbent Director General 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 Major General Bindawa as chairman.
Former member of the House of Representatives from Lagos State, 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 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 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 Mobilisation 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.
Engineer 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.
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.
The President also named Gisaor Vincent Iorja to replace the Former Executive Director, Finance of the Federal Housing Authority, Mathias Byuan, who resigned to contest the governorship election in Benue State.
Iorja is an economist, legal scholar, and academic currently serving as the secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC).
The statement said all the appointments are effective immediately.
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