{"id":24069,"date":"2020-01-28T15:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24069"},"modified":"2020-01-28T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:59:19","slug":"buhari-wants-senate-to-confirm-obiora-as-cbn-deputy-gov-akande-as-ncc-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24069","title":{"rendered":"Buhari wants Senate to confirm Obiora as CBN Deputy Gov, Akande as NCC Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Release<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Ezrel Tabiowo, Special Assistant (Press) to President of the Senate<br \/>\n\u2026seeks Nuhu\u2019s confirmation as NCAA Director-General<br \/>\nThe Senate has received a request from President Muhammadu Buhari for the confirmation of Dr. Kingsley Isitua Obiora and Professor Adeola Akande as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria; and Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).<br \/>\nBoth requests were contained in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and dated January 16, 2020 and December 24, 2019, respectively.<br \/>\nAlso appointed was Uche Onwude as member of the Board of the Commission.<br \/>\nPresident Buhari, in a letter requesting the confirmation of Obiora as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, wrote: \u201cIn accordance with the provisions of Section 8(1)(2) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) (Establishment) Act 2007, I have the pleasure to present Dr. Kingsley Isitua Obiora for confirmation as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn a separate letter seeking the confirmation of the NCC nominees, Buhari wrote: \u201cIn accordance with the provision of Section 8(1) of the Nigerian Communications Act, 2003, I write to forward, for confirmation by the Senate, the under-listed two names of nominees as Chairman and member of the Governing Board of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).\u201d<br \/>\nThe nominees are: Professor Adeolu Akande (South West) as Chairman, and Mr. Uche Onwude (South East) as Member of the NCC Board.<br \/>\nIn a related development, the Senate on Tuesday received a request for the confirmation of Captain Musa Shuaibu Nuhu as Director-General for the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority.<br \/>\nThe request was contained in another letter dated January 7, 2020 and read on the floor during plenary.<br \/>\nThe letter reads: \u201cPursuant to Section 8, Part IV of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (Establishment) Act, I hereby write to request for a confirmation by the Senate, the appointment of Captain Musa Shuaibu Nuhu as the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority.<br \/>\n\u201cCaptain Musa Shuaibu Nuhu is a reputable airline Pilot and Aviation Safety Expert with well over 30 years of cognate working experience in the Aviation Industry. A copy of his curriculum vitae is attached herewith.<br \/>\n\u201cIn view of the strategic importance of the NCAA as the regulator of the Civil Aviation Industry. I wish to request for the expeditious consideration and confirmation of Captain Musa Shuaibu Nuhu as the substantive Director-General of NCAA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release By Ezrel Tabiowo, Special Assistant (Press) to President of the Senate \u2026seeks Nuhu\u2019s confirmation as NCAA Director-General The Senate has received a request from President Muhammadu Buhari for the confirmation of Dr. Kingsley Isitua Obiora and Professor Adeola Akande as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria; and Chairman of the Nigerian Communications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[858,859,860],"class_list":["post-24069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","category-news","tag-akande","tag-nuhu","tag-obiora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}