Tinubu appoints Mr. Silas Agara, Mr. Baffa Dan Agundi as DGs NDE and NPC respectively.
Oru Leonard
President Bola Tinubu has appointed new Directors-General for the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, and the National Population Commission, NPC.
The appointments were contained in separate statements issued by the presidential spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, on Saturday in Abuja.
According to the statement, the President approved the appointment of Mr. Silas Agara as the new Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment, NDE and Mr. Baffa Dan Agundi as the new Director-General of the National Productivity Centre, NPC.
Mr. Agara is an entrepreneur and sports administrator who previously served as the Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State.
The statement added that President Tinubu “anticipates an overhaul of the NDE for optimal performance in designing and implementing programmes to combat mass unemployment.”
The new DG of NPC, Mr. Dan Agundi is a former majority leader of the Kano State House of Assembly. He was also Principal Registrar of the Kano State High Court of Justice.
“The President anticipates the Director-General’s utmost dedication and patriotic zeal in driving the Centre’s mandate of developing a national culture of excellence in operational efficiency and institutionalizing a performance-driven orientation toward measurable productivity in the citizenry for the overall enhancement of service delivery and quality of life across the nation,” the statement added.
(The Vanguard)
