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President Bola Tinubu has made new appointments for the National Examination Council, the National Board of Technical Education, the Federal Polytechnic in N’yak Shendam, Plateau State, and the National Library of Nigeria, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has said.
Onanuga, in a statement on Wednesday, said the President appointed “Prof. Modupe Adeola Adelabu as Chairman of the Governing Board of NECO,” while retaining the current registrar, Professor Ibrahim Dantani Wushishi.
For the chairmanship of the NBTE, President Tinubu appointed “the distinguished academic, Professor Babatunde Salako.”
On April 10, the President reappointed the incumbent executive secretary, “Prof Idris M. Bugaje, for a second and final term of five years.”
The President also approved the appointment of “Engr. Dr Bongfa Binfa as Rector, Federal Polytechnic, N’yak-Shendam, Plateau State” for a single term of five years. He succeeds the pioneer rector whose tenure expired on March 16, 2026.
Tinubu also renewed the tenure of “Prof. Chinwe Veronica Anunobi as Director/Chief Executive of the National Library of Nigeria” for a final term of five years. She was first appointed on September 2, 2021.
Onanuga said Prof. Adelabu is “a retired Professor of educational administration who rose through the ranks to full professorship at the Obafemi Awolowo University.”
She was a former Deputy Governor of Ekiti State (2013-2014) and Chairman of the NBTE between 2018 and 2021.
He described Salako as “a globally respected researcher with decades of experience in higher education, institutional governance and national policy leadership.”
Salako previously served as Director General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research from 2016 to 2024, “a period during which the institute experienced significant revitalisation, enhanced research governance, expanded international collaborations, and improved infrastructure and research outputs.”
Onanuga said Binfa holds “a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mechanical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.”
Before his appointment, he was Deputy Rector (Academic) at the Federal Polytechnic of Oil and Gas, Bonny, and a lecturer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Federal Polytechnic, Idah.
Onanuga said since assuming office, Anunobi “has led several institutional reforms aimed at repositioning the National Library as a modern technology-driven knowledge institution,” including “the development and operationalisation of the National Repository of Nigeria, the Newspaper and Magazine Locator, the Index and Abstract to Nigerian Newspapers, and the National Virtual Library of Nigeria.”
She has also played “a strategic role in advancing the long-awaited completion of the National Library Headquarters project and in initiating plans to migrate heritage collections from the 34 state branches to the new headquarters in Abuja.”
“The President expects that the renewal of her tenure would ensure continuity in the implementation of ongoing reforms, completion of the National Library Headquarters project, and execution of the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan of the institution,” Onanuga said.
PRESIDENT TINUBU MAKES NEW APPOINTMENTS IN THE EDUCATION SECTOR
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has made new appointments for the National Examination Council (NECO), the National Board of Technical Education (NBTE), the Federal Polytechnic in N’yak Shendam, Plateau State, and the…
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