Nine agencies under the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture now new Chief Executive Officers.
The new appointees who will resume office from September 1 are Mr. Buki Ponle, Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria and Mr. Nura Sani Kangiwa as the Director-General, National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism.
Others are Mr. Francis Ndubuisi Nwosu, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Press Council; Mr. Ebeten William Ivara, Director General, National Gallery of Arts; Mr. Olalekan Fadolapo, Registrar/CEO of Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria and Prof. Sunday Enessi Ododo, General Manager/CEO, National Theatre.
Mr Ado Mohammed Yahuza, was also named as Executive Secretary/CEO, National Institute for Cultural Orientation; Prof. Aba Isa Tijjani, Director General, National Commission for Museums and Monuments and Mrs. Oluwabunmi Amao, Director General, Centre For Black And African Arts And Civilisation.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statement on Wednesday, said the approval letter was conveyed to him by Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Chief of Staff to the President, on Tuesday.
The statement was signed and made available to newsmen in Abuja by Mr Segun Adeyemi, the Special Assistant To The President (Media) Office of the Minister of Information and Culture.
Ponle, 65, from Iresi in Osun State is a pioneer member of staff of NAN in 1978 as a reporter and rose to the position of Managing Editor/Director before his retirement in 2013.
He has a Diploma, Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos.
Until his appointment as the new managing director of NAN, Ponle was the CEO/Editor-in-Chief of the Nigerian Expression, an online publication and More Media Consult Ltd.
Nwosu, the new Executive Secretary, Nigerian Press Council equally joined NAN in 1982 as a staff writer and retired as Deputy Director, Planning Research and Statistics in the agency in 2015.
Born in 1955 in Abia, he has a Bachelor Degree in History/Political Science from University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University and Masters Degree in Communications (Health and Environment) from University of Yaounde, Cameroon.
