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Buhari replaces NBC Director-General amid Twitter ban

June 11, 2021 No Comments

President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the appointment of Balarabe Shehu Ilelah as the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC.

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, announced the appointment in a statement on Friday in Abuja.

He the appointment of Ilelah, a veteran broadcaster “is for a tenure of five years in the first instance.”

Ilelah replaces erstwhile DG, Prof Armstrong Idachaba, amid the Twitter ban.

Recall that the NBC had directed broadcast stations to deactivate their Twitter accounts shortly after the ban issued by the Federal Government.

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Okonjo-Iweala resumes office as WTO Director-General

March 1, 2021 No Comments

Newly elected Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Monday resumes work at the institution.

She was received at WTO’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland by officials of the trade body and a few journalists on her first day as the global organization’s director.

Mrs Okonjo-Iweala who is the first woman, the first African and also the first Nigerian to to emerge as DG of the WTO, was confirmed for the job on February 15, 2021, after the US government gave its nod.