Tinubu appoints Ibrahim Ida as CAC chairman, names seven NPC commissioners 

President Bola Tinubu has appointed former senator Dr. Ibrahim Ida as Chairman of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and nominated seven new federal commissioners for the National Population Commission (NPC), subject to confirmation by the National Assembly.

Dr. Ida holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Ibadan (1983) and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the University of Abuja (2003). Before his election to the Senate in 2017, where he represented Katsina Central, he served as Katsina State Commissioner of Finance and later as a Permanent Secretary in the Federal Civil Service.

The President also forwarded the names of seven nominees to fill vacant positions as Federal Commissioners in the National Population Commission. The nominees and their respective states are Kolawole Oladipupo Alabi (Ekiti), Nasiru Mu’azu (Zamfara), Usman Abubakar Tuggar (Bauchi), Dr. Isaka Alada Yahaya (Kwara), Prof. Sadiq Isah Radda (Katsina), Suleiman Umar (Jigawa), and Hon. Chiso Abdullahi Dattijo (Sokoto).

The appointments are intended to complement existing commissioners already sworn in at the commission.

In a related development, President Tinubu appointed Dr. Yusuf Mohammed from Kano State as Chairman of the Federal Polytechnic, Kaltungo.

Meanwhile, the President has confirmed the appointment of Bala Mohammed Bello as Special Adviser on Political Economy. Bello, who hails from Taraba State, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

Prior to this appointment, Bello served as a Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and was Executive Director (Corporate Services) at the Nigerian Export-Import Bank between 2017 and 2022.

According to a statement issued on Monday by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the President expressed confidence in the ability of the appointees to contribute meaningfully to his administration’s efforts to improve the welfare of Nigerians.