Salih-Farah: Buhari confirms new substantive DG of NITT
- The NITT now has a new director-general as directed by the presidency
- The new appointee, who is a substantive head of the NITT, is Salih-Farah
- Salih-Farah's appointment was confirmed by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, January 21
Bayero Salih-Farah has been confirmed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the substantive head of the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT).
This was revealed on Tuesday, January 21, in Kaduna by Paul Mshelizah, NITT's director of public affairs, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
Salih-Farah's appointment, according to the permanent secretary of the Federal Ministry of Transportation, took effect from Monday, January 13.
Source: UGC
A graduate of Geography in the Usman Dan Fodio University, the new appointee was born in 1964 in Kaduna state. He started working with NITT in 1994.
The letter that contains his appointment partly read: “I am pleased to inform you that the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by a letter Ref. No. PRES/99/MT/26, dated January 13, 2020, has approved your appointment as the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology, Zaria, Kaduna state.
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“The appointment is for four years effective January 13, 2020, in accordance with Section 7 of the NITT Act Cap No. 116 LFN 2010.”
This is one of the major appointments the president has made in his move tom drive forward his Next Level vision in the second administration.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that President Buhari had nominated Kingsley Obiora as the new deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
A statement issued by the presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, on Thursday, January 16, indicated that the president had already forwarded a letter nominating Obiora to the president of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan.
The statement said that if confirmed by the Senate, Obiora, who is an Alternate Executive Director at the Washington DC office of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), would be replacing Joseph Nnanna, who would retire on February 2, 2020.
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