President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of 26 persons into the boards and leadership of 10 federal government agencies and commissions, with the appointments taking immediate effect.

In a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the President named former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, as Chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).

Other members of the REA board are Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta as non-executive directors, while the agency's Director-General, Abba Abubakar Aliyu, and three previously appointed executive directors remain members of the board.

President Tinubu also appointed Major General Junaid Bindawa (Rtd.) as Chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission. Former House of Representatives member, Olajumoke Okoya-Thomas, was named Secretary of the Commission.

Also appointed as commissioners are Dr Ogbole Ene Lilian (Benue), Oladele Olatubosun (Oyo), and Yakubu Umar Barde (Kaduna), while Dr Mai Adamu Yau (Borno), Ginika Florence Tor (Enugu), Engineer Lawrence Okoh (Edo), and Bello Morenike Iyabode (Kogi) were appointed as members.

The President also redeployed Tosin Johnson Adeyanju, formerly Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund (NLTF), to serve as Secretary of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission.

In other appointments, Dr Abuh Mohammed was named Director-General of the National Population Commission (NPC), while Dr Akinola Odeyemi emerged as Managing Director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET). Dr Anthony Inalegwu Godwin was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission.

Engineer Julius Oloro was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), replacing the late Dr A.R. Kamal, who passed away in January.

President Tinubu also inaugurated the board of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission with Dr Abdullahi Maikano Saidu as Chairman. Other members of the board are Mohammed Asmau, Mohammed Aliyu Makama, Dr Suleiman Gidado, Louis O. Ndukwe, Amaechi Ugwele and Olaniyi Idowu Onikola.

Similarly, Shuni Muhammad Dahiru was appointed Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education, replacing Professor Shu'aibu Shehu Aliyu, who was earlier reassigned to the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF).

To fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mathias Byuan, the former Executive Director (Finance) of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), President Tinubu appointed Gisaor Vincent Iorja, an economist, legal scholar and Secretary of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC), as his replacement.