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ICPC Appoints Okesanjo Resident Consultant for Strategy, Communications
Mrs Okesanjo brings over 16 years of combined experience in the public and private sectors to the role.
•Mrs Temilade Aderemi Okesanjo
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has appointed Mrs Temilade Aderemi Okesanjo as Resident Consultant (Strategy and Communications).
ICPC Spokesperson and Head of Media and Public Communications, Okor Odey,said that the appointment, which takes immediate effect, marks the first time Strategy has been formally integrated into a Resident Consultant portfolio at the Commission, underscoring ICPC’s evolving forward-looking approach to prevention, institutional integrity, and impact-driven governance.
He emphasised that the new role is designed to strengthen the systematic integration of strategy into ICPC’s day-to-day activities, while ensuring that the Commission’s priorities and interventions are clearly articulated and responsibly communicated to stakeholders and the public.
Mrs Okesanjo will support the Commission’s work in two core areas.
On Strategy, she will help ensure that ICPC’s priorities, engagements, and interventions are deliberate, coherent, and fully aligned with its statutory mandate.
On Communications, she will drive clarity, consistency, and credibility in how these priorities are conveyed, with a view to building trust and sustaining public confidence.
Mrs Okesanjo brings over 16 years of combined experience in the public and private sectors to the role.
She began her career in the financial services industry at Ecobank Nigeria before moving into public service, where she served in the Ministry of Transportation as well as the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
In 2018, she resigned from the civil service to establish Woodford Consulting Company, through which she has led high-level strategy and implementation advisory engagements for public sector institutions and development-focused organisations.
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Ayo Fayose Gets Presidential Portfolio As REA Board Chairman
Fayose will head the board of REA, with Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta appointed as members and non-executive directors,” said Onanuga.
President Bola Tinubu has appointed the former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, as chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) Board.
The President also appointed Major General Junaid Bindawa as chairman of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission.
24 others were also appointed to 10 federal government agencies and commissions.
The appointments were contained in a statement issued by the presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, in Abuja.
According to the statement, “All the appointments take immediate effect.”
“Fayose will head the board of REA, with Alhaji Ahmadu Abubakar and Engineer Ilyasu Ibrahim Makinta appointed as members and non-executive directors,” said Onanuga.
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BREAKING: ICPC grills Gbajabiamila over PFIPC scandal
According to Jiti Ogunye, Gbajabiamila’s counsel, the president’s chief of staff appeared at the ICPC headquarters on Monday, where he was questioned over the PFIPC controversy.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has interrogated Femi Gbajabiamila, chief of staff to President Bola Tinubu, over his role in the emergence of the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC).
According to Jiti Ogunye, Gbajabiamila’s counsel, the president’s chief of staff appeared at the ICPC headquarters on Monday, where he was questioned over the PFIPC controversy.
Details soon
(The Cable)
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NBC Begins Training of Free -To- Air TV Installers
” We are doing it to ensure that they can properly track the NigComsat signal. We found out that installers are very critical to the success of the DSO project because we recently launched the DTH project. We are going DTT. We are going DTH. We are doing mobile App.”
•50 set-top box installers and technicians in Ibadan
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has commenced nationwide capacity-building exercise to prepare installers for the rollout of the country’s renewed Digital Switchover (DSO) programme.
The Head of the DSO Unit and Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the Commission, Mrs. Clementine Usman-Wamba, announced the development during training of more than 50 set-top box installers and technicians in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
According to her, broadcasters would be shut out of analogue broadcasting transmission by 2028, hence the need for the training of installers that are professionals to assist in the process.
She said, “We are actually here in Ibadan to train installers specifically to be part of the Digital Switch Over process.We are doing it in conjunction with Nigeria Communication Satellite Limited, (NigComSat). It is a joint outreach that we are doing here today.”
” We are doing it to ensure that they can properly track the NigComsat signal. We found out that installers are very critical to the success of the DSO project because we recently launched the DTH project. We are going DTT. We are going DTH. We are doing mobile App.”
She said that the installation of Free TV is to enable Nigerians to have access to many channels without subscription, noting that the NBC has embarked on the training of the installers of decoders and dishes nationwide for effective take off of the project.
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