President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of Muhammad Babangida, son of former military president Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), as Chairman of the newly restructured Bank of Agriculture.
The announcement was made in an official statement released on Friday by Presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga. Babangida’s appointment comes alongside those of seven other individuals assigned to lead various federal agencies and institutions.
According to the statement, the following appointments were also confirmed:
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Lydia Kalat Musa (Kaduna State) – Chairman, Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA)
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Jamilu Wada Aliyu (Kano State) – Chairman, National Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC)
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Hon. Yahuza Ado Inuwa (Kano State) – Chairman, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON)
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Sanusi Musa (SAN) (Kano State) – Chairman, Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR)
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Prof. Al-Mustapha Alhaji Aliyu (Sokoto State) – Director-General, Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa (DTCA)
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Sanusi Garba Rikiji (Zamfara State) – Director-General, Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations (NOTN)
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Mrs. Tomi Somefun (Oyo State) – Managing Director, National Hydro-Electric Power Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC)
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Dr. Abdulmumini Mohammed Aminu-Zaria (Kaduna State) – Executive Director, Nigerian Integrated Water Resources Management Commission (NIWRMC)
Muhammad Babangida, 53, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Public Relations and Business Communication from the European University in Montreux, Switzerland. He is also an alumnus of the Executive Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Business School (2002).
His father, General Ibrahim Babangida, served as Nigeria’s military head of state from August 1985 to August 1993.
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