President Bola Tinubu has accredited new appointments throughout key training businesses, together with the Nationwide Examinations Council and the Nationwide Board for Technical Schooling.
Based on an announcement on Wednesday by the President’s Particular Adviser on Info and Technique, Bayo Onanuga, the appointments are a part of efforts to strengthen establishments beneath the Federal Ministry of Schooling.
The President appointed Prof. Modupe Adeola Adelabu as Chairman of the Governing Board of the Nationwide Examinations Council, whereas retaining the Registrar, Prof. Ibrahim Dantani Wushishi.
He additionally named Prof. Babatunde Salako as Chairman of the Nationwide Board for Technical Schooling, whereas earlier reappointing the Government Secretary, Prof. Idris Bugaje, for a second and last time period of 5 years.
Within the polytechnic sector, Tinubu appointed Dr Bongfa Binfa as Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, N’yak-Shendam, Plateau State, for a single time period of 5 years. Binfa succeeds the pioneer rector, Dr Mukaila Zakari Ya’u, whose tenure led to March 2026.
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Till his appointment, Binfa was the Deputy Rector (Educational) on the Federal Polytechnic of Oil and Fuel, Bonny, and beforehand lectured on the Federal Polytechnic, Idah.
The President additionally renewed the tenure of Prof. Chinwe Veronica Anunobi as Director-Common of the Nationwide Library of Nigeria for a last time period of 5 years.
Anunobi, who was first appointed in September 2021, has led “a number of institutional reforms aimed toward repositioning the Nationwide Library as a contemporary technology-driven information establishment” together with the event of digital platforms such because the Nationwide Repository of Nigeria and the Nationwide Digital Library.
The assertion famous that Adelabu, a former Deputy Governor of Ekiti State and ex-chairman of the NBTE, brings intensive expertise in academic administration, whereas Salako is a former Director-Common of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Analysis.
It added that the renewal of Anunobi’s tenure is anticipated to make sure continuity in ongoing reforms and the completion of the Nationwide Library headquarters mission in Abuja.
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