Kwara Gov Appoints 26-Year-Old Serving NYSC Member Into Cabinet

Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has nominated 26-year-old Joana Nnazua Kolo to the State House of Assembly for confirmation as a commissioner.

Kolo, who hails from Edu Local Government Area of the state, is among four other women whose names were forwarded to the state assembly as commissioner-nominees.

AbdulRazaq can be said to have followed the example of Governor Seyi Makinde who recently appointed 27-year-old Seun Fakorede as commissioner.

THE WHISTLER reports that Kolo’s appointment makes her one of the youngest to be appointed into a State Executive Council in the country.

A statement by Abdulrazaq’s Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, said the appointee is “a grassroots mobiliser” and “an ardent advocate of community development.”

“Miss Kolo is still having her National Youths Service Corps programme in Jigawa, where she is teaching at Model Boarding Junior Secondary School Guri. Her screening for the cabinet seat would hold after she rounds off her NYSC service in the next two weeks,” said Ajakaye.

Ajakaye said the governor also nominated Folashade Omoniyi, a former managing director of FBN Mortgages Limited, as the new chairperson of the Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KW-IRS)

“Omoniyi, who holds a bachelor of engineering from the University of Ilorin and Masters of Business Administration from Obafemi Awolowo University, has many years of leadership experience in the banking sector, marketing, information communication technology, and business management,” he said.

“She has executive education in positive leadership from Michigan Ross Executive Education (USA); Market Driving Strategies from London Business School (UK); Strategic Uses of Information Technology from Stanford Business School ( USA); and Senior Management Programme (SMP18) from the Lagos Business School (Nigeria).”

According to him, other nominees are Sa’adatu Modibbo-Kawu, Arinola Fatimoh Lawal and Aisha Ahman Pategi.

“A 1997 graduate of Economics from the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Mrs Modibbo-Kawu also holds Masters in Business Administration from University of Ilorin and various certificates from Penn Foster Career School Scranton in the United States and Metropolitan School of Business and Management in Dubai, United Arab Emirates,” he said.

“Arinola Fatimoh Lawal, a 1993 graduate of Catering and Hotel Management from the Kwara State Polytechnic, is a top-rated player in Nigeria’s hospitality industry with experience as chief executive officers of several firms including Batool Nigeria Limited, Mohbalamira Nigeria Limited and MirMira Enterprise.

“Ms Ahman-Pategi was educated at the School of Remedial Studies and FASS-International Relations in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State in 1996; Agent and Broker License Barney Fletcher School, in Atlanta GA, USA in 2004; Capstone Institute of Mortgage Finance, also in Atlanta in 2006; Stanford University, Stanford California where she obtained a certificate in Political Science (Data Analysis) in 2013; Bachelor of Art – Mass Communication from Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma; and MBA Business Administration from American Inter-Continental University, Dunwoody GA.”