Waziri Adio appointed new Executive Secretary, NEITI; See full list of Board Members

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr. Waziri Onibiyo Adio, as the Executive Secretary of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI). Until his appointment, Mr. Adio was a Communication Consultant and Publisher of Metrolope Magazine. Between 1995 and 2003, he held various editorial positions in Thisday Newspaper and was Special Adviser, Research and Strategy, Office of the Senate President, Federal Republic of Nigeria from August 2003 to October 2004. He was appointed Communication Specialist by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2004, a position he held until 2007 when he left to serve as Director of Communications, NEITI from May 2007 to June 2008.
Mr. Adio graduated with a BSc. (Mass Communication) from the University of Lagos in 1992, and obtained MSc. (Journalism) Degree from Columbia University, New York, United States of America in 1999.
He also holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA, 2009.
His appointment is with immediate effect.

President Buhari also approved the appointment of a new National Stakeholders Working Group (NSWG) otherwise known as Governing Board for the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI).
The composition of the new Governing Board is as follows:
1.Honourable Minister of Solid Minerals Development – Chairman
2.Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance – Member
3.Group Managing Director, Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation(NNPC) – Member
4.President, Miners Association of Nigeria – Member
5.Representative of the Civil Society Organizations
(to be elected by the organizations) – Member
6.President, Nigeria Mining and Geosciences Society – Member
7.President, Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural
Gas (NUPENG) – Member
8.Hannatu Musa Musawa (Journalist), Representative,
North-West Geo-Political zone – Member
9.Mr. Lawan Gana Lantaiwa (Consultant), Representative,
North-East Geo-Political Zone – Member
10.Mr. Bernard B. A. Ver (Accountant), Representative,
North-Central Geo-Political Zone – Member
11.Mrs. Anne Adaeze Onyekwena (Representative,
South-East Geo-Political Zone) – Member
12.Mr. Emmanuel Chiejina (Lawyer), Representative,
South-South Geo-Political Zone – Member
13.Mr. Gbenga Onayiga (Journalist), Representative,
South-West Geo-Political Zone – Member
14.Mr. Waziri Onibiyo Adio – Executive Secretary.

The new Governing Board will be inaugurated in due course.