Bayo Onanuga, others appointed heads of information parastatals

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 3:09 pm

Bayo Onanuga

By Ayorinde Oluokun

The Federal Government has appointed the Chief Executives of six information-related parastatals under the Ministry of Information and Culture.

The appointments were announced in Abuja on Wednesday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. Among them is Bayo Onanuga, managing director/editor-in-chief of TheNEWS/PMNews who will now be MD of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

The new Chief Executives are:

1. Mr. Ishaq Modibo Kawu – Director-General, Nigerian Broadcasting
Commission (NBC

2. Mr. Mansur Liman – Director-General, Federal Radio Corporation of
Nigeria (FRCN)

3. Mr. Yakubu Mohammed – Director-General, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA)

4. Dr. Garba Abari, Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA)

5. Mr. Bayo Onanuga – Managing Director, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)

6. Mr. Osita Okechukwu – Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON)

The new appointees replace the Chief Executives of the parastatals who were disengaged on Feb. 15th 2016

The appointments take immediate effect.

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Gbenro says:

May 25, 2016 at 5:53 pm

Bayo Onanuga is not and cannot be a boss. I know him to be a leader. I have worked with him, I have worked under him for good 10 years and I can only say that NAN is so lucky to have a journalism guru like him. He does not victimise, quite understanding and very much concerned about the welfare of his staff. Though, not a perfect man because there is no perfect man on earth but he is a good man. He is very accessible. He is just like late Professor Femi Sonaike, whom I worked with in Daily Times. This short piece is not written out of sentiment. What happens to The News Magazine/Pm News without him? God is on the throne. Gbenro