Appointments: Tinubu appoints new EVC for NCC, NIGCOMSAT, others
President Bola Tinubu has approved, with immediate effect, the appointment of new and returning chief executives to fresh terms in office in parastatals under the Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy.
Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
(1) EVC/CEO, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) — Aminu Maida
(2)MD/CEO, Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) — Nkechi Egerton-Idehen
(3) DG/CEO, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) — Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi
(4) National Commissioner/CEO, Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) — Dr Vincent Olatunji
(5) Postmaster General/CEO, Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) — Tola Odeyemi
Ngelale also announced the president’s approval for the appointment of Idris Alubankudi as a Special Adviser to the President on Technology and Digital Economy.
He said that Alubankudi’s appointment was in line with the president’s determination to maximally leverage on Nigeria’s proven technological and digital economic prowess to reposition the nation’s economy toward greater financial inclusion.
The new EVC of NCC, Maida, was until his appointment the Executive Director, Technology and Operations at Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS). He has over 15 years’ multi-functional and international experience in FinTech, Telecoms and Enterprise Technology.
Prior to his appointment at NIBSS, Maida was CTO at the Nigerian-based FinTech Arca Payments Network and Senior Manager at Cisco Systems UK.
He holds an MEng in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College London and a PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Bath UK.