By JKNewsMedia
APPOUNTMENTS TO ten Federal Government (F) agencies and commissions have taken immediate effect following President Bola Tinubu’s approval of twenty-six new appointments, including the appointment of former Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose as chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) and Major General Junaid Bindawa as chairman of the National Salary and Wages Commission (NSWC).
JKNewsMedia.com reports that Fayose will head the board of the REA alongside Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta, who were appointed as members and non-executive directors.
The board also includes the agency’s Director General, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, and three executive directors previously appointed.
The President also approved eight other appointments to the NSWC. Former member of the House of Representatives, Olajumoke Okoya Thomas, was appointed secretary of the commission.
Dr Ogbole Ene Lilian, Oladele Olatubosun and Yakubu Umar Barde were appointed commissioners representing Benue, Oyo and Kaduna respectively.
Dr Mai Adamu Yau from Borno, Ginika Florence Tor from Enugu, Engineer Lawrence Okoh from Edo and Bello Morenike Iyabode from Kogi were appointed as members of the commission.
Tosin Johnson Adeyanju, previously appointed Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), was redeployed as Secretary of the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission (RMFC).
President Tinubu also 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 (NBET) and Dr Anthony Inalegwu Godwin as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC).
Engineer Julius Oloro was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM) in Kwara, replacing Dr A.R. Kamal, who died in January.
The President also constituted the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) with Dr Abdullahi Maikano Saidu as chairman.
Other board members are Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Aliyu Makama, Dr Suleiman Gidado, Louis O. Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola.
Shuni Muhammad Dahiru was appointed Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (NCMLANFE), replacing Professor Shu’aibu Shehu Aliyu, who was reassigned to the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF) in April.
President Tinubu also appointed Gisaor Vincent Iorja as Executive Director, Finance of the Federal Housing Authority (FFHA), replacing Mathias Byuan, who resigned to contest the Benue governorship election.
Iorja currently serves as Secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC).
All the appointments take immediate effect, according to a press statement signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, dated July 20, 2026.
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