PRESIDENT TINUBU RENEWS THE TENURE OF DG NTA DG, MD NAN
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved a second three-year term for the Director-General of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, Abdulhamid Salihu Dembos, and the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Ali Mohammed Ali.
The renewal was announced on Saturday in a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
According to the statement, the new tenure for both media chiefs will commence on October 20, 2026. President Tinubu first appointed Dembos and Ali on October 20, 2023.
Dembos, from Yola, Adamawa State, is a former National President of RATTAWU and ex-Executive Director of Marketing at NTA. He joined the NTA as an announcer in Kaduna in 1989 and rose to become Zonal Director, NTA Kaduna Network Centre before retiring in 2017.
Ali, a veteran journalist with over 30 years experience, holds a degree in English from Bayero University Kano, a Post Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication from BUK, and a graduate degree in International Affairs from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
The President urged the two chief executives to “justify his confidence in them by continuing to demonstrate commitment to their organisation’s mandates and the promotion of the government’s Renewed Hope Agenda,” Onanuga said.
