President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of a new National Stakeholders Working Group (NSWG) otherwise known as Governing Board for the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI).
Adio, who had served as a director of communications at NEITI from 2007 to 2008, is a communication consultant and publisher of Metrolope Magazine. Between 1995 and 2003, he held various editorial positions in THISDAY newspaper. He left in 2003 to become special adviser, research and strategy, to Adolphus Wabara, who was then senate president. Adio resigned his job in 2004 and joined the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as communication specialist, a position he held till 2007. He graduated with a BSc in mass communication from the University of Lagos in 1992, and obtained an MSc in journalism from Columbia University, New York,in 1999. He also earned a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA,
According to a statement by Bolaji Adebiyi, Director (Press) in the Office of the SGF, the composition of the new Governing Board is as follows:
(i)Honourable Minister of Solid Minerals Development-Chairman
(ii)Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance-Member
(iii)Group Managing Director, Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation(NNPC)-Member
(iv)President, Miners Association of Nigeria-Member
(v)Representative of the Civil Society Organizations
(to be elected by the organizations)-Member
(vi)President, Nigeria Mining and Geosciences Society-Member
(vii)President, Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural
Gas (NUPENG)-Member
(viii)Hannatu Musa Musawa (Journalist), Representative,
North-West Geo-Political zone-Member
(ix)Mr. Lawan Gana Lantaiwa (Consultant), Representative,
North-East Geo-Political Zone-Member
(x)Mr. Bernard B. A. Ver (Accountant), Representative,
North-Central Geo-Political Zone-Member
(xi)Mrs. Anne Adaeze Onyekwena (Representative,
South-East Geo-Political Zone)-Member
(xii)Mr. Emmanuel Chiejina (Lawyer), Representative,
South-South Geo-Political Zone-Member
(xiii)Mr. Gbenga Onayiga (Journalist), Representative,
South-West Geo-Political Zone-Member
(xiv)Mr. Waziri Onibiyo Adio- Executive Secretary.
Adebiyi said the new Governing Board will be inaugurated in due course.