… Names 13-man board
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday appointed Mr. Waziri
Onibiyo Adio, as the Executive Secretary of Nigeria Extractive Industries
Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in addition to a 13-man Board, reports NaijaAgroNet.
A press statement from the Director of Press at the Office
of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Bolaji Adebiyi,
confirmed to NaijaAgroNet that Mr. Adio was until his latest appointment, a
Communication Consultant and publisher of Metrolope Magazine, having held
several editorial positions in the past including in Thisday Newspaper and was
Special Adviser, Research and Strategy, Office of the Senate President, Federal
Republic of Nigeria from August 2003 to October 2004.
Appointed the Communication Specialist by United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) in 2004, a position he held until 2007when he left
to serve as Director of Communications, NEITI from May 2007 to June 2008.
Mr. Adio graduated with a BSc. (Mass Communication) from
the University of Lagos in 1992, and obtained MSc (Journalism) Degree from
Columbia University, New York, United States of America in 1999.
He also holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from
the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA, 2009.
In a related development President Buhari, the Director of Press,
Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Bolaji
Adebiyi, listed a 13-man National Stakeholders Working Group (NSWG) otherwise
known as Governing Board for the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative (NEITI).
The composition, NaijaAgroNet gathered comprises the Minister
of Solid Minerals Development- as Chairman, Permanent Secretary, Federal
Ministry of Finance-Member, Group Managing Director, Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)-Member, President, Miners Association of
Nigeria-Member, Representative of the Civil Society Organizations (to be
elected by the organizations)-Member, President, Nigeria Mining and Geosciences
Society-Member, and President, Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas
(NUPENG)-Member.
Also named to the NSWG are Hannatu Musa Musawa
(Journalist), Representative, North-West Geo-Political zone-Member, Mr.
Lawan Gana Lantaiwa (Consultant), Representative, North-East Geo-Political
Zone-Member, Mr. Bernard B. A. Ver (Accountant), Representative, North-Central
Geo-Political Zone-Member, Mrs. Anne Adaeze Onyekwena (Representative, South-East
Geo-Political Zone)-Member, Mr. Emmanuel Chiejina (Lawyer),
Representative, South-South Geo-Political Zone-Member, Mr. Gbenga Onayiga
(Journalist), Representative, South-West Geo-Political Zone-Member, and Mr.
Waziri Onibiyo Adio, Executive Secretary.
NaijaAgroNet further gathered that the new Governing Board
will be inaugurated in due course.
Uboshe Uboshe/GEE
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