Twelve top officials of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) including Nnamdi Nwokike, newly-appointed spokesman and Dr. Kafilu Danbatta, Head Next Generation Technologies and Standardization, today begin terminal leaves marking their exit from the telecoms regulatory agency.
NCC says the 12 top officials are retiring from the agency and will begin a terminal leave today marking the process of their retirement.
NCC’s management says their retirement formalities began Thursday with a “send forth process for 12 amazing and wonderful management staff who will exit the Commission effective from April 1, 2019 when they will commence their terminal leave.”
Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive, NCC said at the special valedictory executive management session held for the retiring officials that they “will be leaving a vacuum difficult to fill.”
According to NCC, the twelve retiring officials include:
- Nnamdi Nwokike, Director Public Affairs
- Abubakar Kolawole Yakubu, Director Policy, Competition and Economic Analysis
- Bashir Ayodeji Idris, Head Legislative and Government Relations
- Somieari Jumbo, Deputy Director Spectrum Administration
- Dr. Femi Atoyebi, Head Strategy Management
- Kehinde Oladipo, Head Human Capital
- Inatimi Spiff, Head Process Administration
- Austin Odo, Head Performance Management
- Chinelo Ofomata, Assistant Director Legal Services
- Tenimu Bawa, Assistant Director Research and Development
- Dr. Kafilu Danbatta, Head Next Generation Technologies and Standardization
Nnamdi Nwokike, Director Public Affairs, NCC who responded on behalf of his fellow retirees, thanked the EVC and his colleagues noting that “we are leaving the work in capable hands who will do better than how we met and left it.”