{"id":13086,"date":"2024-01-02T13:25:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T13:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=13086"},"modified":"2024-01-02T13:59:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T13:59:42","slug":"just-in-tinubu-appoints-new-ceo-for-nsipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/02\/just-in-tinubu-appoints-new-ceo-for-nsipa\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Tinubu Appoints New CEO for NSIPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has given his approval for the appointment of Dr. Akindele Egbuwalo as the acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and National Coordinator of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Egbuwalo, who previously served as the National N-Power Programme manager, will assume the acting position while the investigation into the allegations of corruption and financial malfeasance against the suspended NSIPA boss, Halima Shehu, is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Halima Shehu, appointed by President Tinubu in October 2023 and confirmed by the Senate on October 18, 2023, faced suspension following the directive from the president. Her suspension is linked to allegations during her tenure as the National Coordinator of the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, where she played a key role in digitizing the program, leveraging her banking and career expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Having worked at the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development from 2017 to 2022, Halima Shehu&#8217;s tenure is currently under scrutiny, with Dr. Akindele Egbuwalo temporarily assuming the role of NSIPA NC\/CEO during this investigative period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has given his approval for the appointment of Dr. Akindele Egbuwalo as the acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and National Coordinator of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA). Dr. Egbuwalo, who previously served as the National N-Power Programme manager, will assume the acting position while the investigation into the allegations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-13086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13089,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13086\/revisions\/13089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}