President Bola Tinubu has announced 26 new appointments across ten federal government agencies and commissions, with former Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose emerging as chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).
Maj Gen Junaid Bindawa was named chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC).
Fayose will head the REA board, alongside new members and non-executive directors Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta.
The agency's incumbent Director-General, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, along with three previously appointed executive directors, complete the remaining board.
Alongside Bindawa's appointment, Tinubu named eight other members to the Wages Commission.
Former Lagos House of Representatives member Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas becomes the commission's new secretary, while Dr Ogbole Ene Lilian, Oladele Olatubosun and Yakubu Umar Barde, representing Benue, Oyo and Kaduna respectively, were named commissioners.
Dr Mai Adamu Yau (Borno), Ginika Florence Tor (Enugu), Engineer Lawrence Okoh (Edo) and Bello Morenike Iyabode (Kogi) were appointed as members.
Tosin Johnson Adeyanju, previously Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), has been redeployed to the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission as secretary (RMAFC).
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Elsewhere, the President appointed Dr Abuh Mohammed as Director-General of the National Population Commission (NPC), Dr Akinola Odeyemi as Managing Director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company (NBET), and Dr Anthony Inalegwu Godwin as chairman and chief executive of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission.
Engineer Julius Oloro, a former council chairman, takes over as chief executive of the Kwara-based National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), succeeding Dr A R Kamal, who died in January.
The president also constituted the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC), naming Dr Abdullahi Maikano Saidu as chairman.
Board members include Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Aliyu Makama, Dr Suleiman Gidado, Louis O Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola.
Shuni Muhammad Dahiru becomes the new Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (NMEC), 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 of Finance at the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), who resigned to contest the Benue governorship election, Tinubu named Gisaor Vincent Iorja, an economist, legal scholar and academic currently serving as secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC).
The presidency announced all appointments take immediate effect.
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