President Bola Tinubu has intensified sweeping changes in the appointments of chief executive officers of parastatals and agencies in Nigeria.
The latest of which include sack of all Chief Executive Officers, Director Generals or Managing Directors of agencies or regulatory bodies under ministry of information and their immediate replacement.
Consequently, Tinubu has approved
the appointment of eight new Chief Executive Officers for Parastatals and Agencies under the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation.
The new appointments include:
National Orientation Agency (NOA), Director-General / CEO — Mr. Lanre Issa-Onilu; Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Director-General / CEO — Mr. Salihu Abdulhamid Dembos; Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Director-General / CEO — Dr. Muhammed Bulama
Others are the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Director-General / CEO — Mr. Charles Ebuebu; Voice of Nigeria (VON) — Director-General / CEO — Mr. Jibrin Baba Ndace; Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON), Director-General / CEO – Dr. Lekan Fadolapo; News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Managing Director / CEO — Mr. Ali Muhammed Ali and Nigerian Press Council (NPC), Executive Secretary / CEO — Mr. Dili Ezughah
The President tasks the newly entrusted leadership in these important sub-sectors to innovate and create new opportunities for Nigerians to leverage upon through the effective reform of these key institutions of government which function to unify our people, reshape mindsets, and showcase this great nation to the rest of the world.
By these directives of the President, the above listed appointments take immediate effect, according to a statement by presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale.
Further, President Tinubu approved the appointment of Dr. Olasupo Olusi to serve as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of Industry (BOI) for a term of four (4) years in the first instance.
The President’s approval of Dr. Olusi’s appointment follows the voluntary resignation of former BOI Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Olukayode Pitan.
Dr. Olasupo Olusi has served as a World Bank economist and development finance expert over the past 20 years. Between 2011 and 2015, Dr. Olusi served as the economic adviser to then Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance.
He is an alumnus of Hull University, United Kingdom and had obtained a Masters degree in International Money, Finance, and Investment, as well as a Doctorate in Finance & Economics from Durham University, United Kingdom, in 2005.
The President tasked the new BOI Chief Executive to ensure that Nigerians, who are operating all sizes of enterprises across sectors, are given fair and equitable access to much needed support in order to bolster employment generation and wealth creation amongst income groups in the country with special regard for lower and middle income enterprise operators.
Tinubu also approved the appointment of Mr. Muhammed Abu Ibrahim to serve as the Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF).
He expressed expectations that the new leadership at the Fund would successfully remove all barriers to efficient access to provisional funding in the sector for proven stakeholders nationwide who will credibly contribute to the Renewed Hope Agenda’s mandate in the attainment of complete self-sufficiency in local food production and eventual surplus export.
All the appointments takes immediate effect, according to the Presidential Spokesman.
