Nigerian President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday, approved the appointment of Mohammed Isa as a senior special assistant to the president on disability matters.
Tinubu, in a statement by his spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale, said the appointment is part of the president’s “determination to ensure that every segment of society is sufficiently catered to within the ambit of the Renewed Hope Agenda of his administration”.
The Informant247 had earlier reported that President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday, approved the appointment of 20 federal commissioners in the National Population Commission with nine current federal commissioners being appointed for a second term in office:
According to a statement by the Special Adviser to President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, titled ‘President Tinubu appoints twenty federal commissioners of the national population commission,’ the reappointed commissioners include Dr Clifford Zirra (Adamawa), Mr Chidi Ezeoke (Anambra), Isa Buratai (Borno), Dr Tony Aiyejina (Edo), Mr Ejike Ezeh (Enugu), Abubakar Damburam (Gombe), Prof. Uba Nnabue (Imo), Mudashiru Hussain (Osun) and Mr Saany Sale (Taraba).
Meanwhile, the new appointees are Emmanuel Eke (Abia), Alex Ukam (Cross River), Blessyn Brume-Ataguba (Delta), Dr Jeremiah Nwankwegu (Ebonyi), Ms Sa’adatu Garba (Kaduna) and Dr. Aminu Tsanyawa (Kano).
Others are Yori Afolabi (Kogi), Olakunle Sobukola (Ogun), Temitayo Oluwatuyi (Ondo), Ms. Mary Afan (Plateau) and Mr. Ogiri Henry (Rivers).
The President tasked the new and returning NPC Federal Commissioners to “successfully implement all measures taken by his administration to produce and effectively appropriate accurate population data with which lasting solutions to Nigeria’s socio-political and economic challenges can be conclusively developed and executed.”
The appointments come some hours after President Tinubu launched the Electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System, alongside the National Geospatial Data Repository and the National Coordination Committee on CRVS.