POLITICS:President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Appoints Anya As Advisory Committee Member.

President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the
appointment of a Fellow of the Nigerian
Academy of Science and a former director-
general of National Mathematical Centre,
Prof. Anya. O. Anya, as a member of the
Advisory Committee on National Dialogue,Punchng reports...

The Special Assistant (Media) to the Secretary
to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Sam
Nwaobasi, said on Thursday that he would
replace Prof.

Ben Nwabueze (SAN) “who is still
abroad on health grounds.”

The President also approved the appointment
of Mr. Pius Osunyikanmi as the Director-
General/Chief Executive Officer of the
Nigerian Technical Aids Corps.

Jonathan had, in his Independence Day
address on October 1, 2013, named
Nwabueze as a member of the 13-member
committee headed by Senator Femi
Okurounmu.

But the 83-year-old don was absent at the
swearing in of members of the committee held
in Aso Villa on October 7 having written the
President earlier, seeking to be replaced by
Solomon Asemota SAN, because he
(Nwabueze) was still abroad recieving
treatment.

Nwabueze, who had earlier nominated
Asemota to replace him on the committee,
said he had been in London since September
treating prostate cancer.

According to him, he had to cut short his
medical trip on October 12, “to keep a long-
standing commitment to chair the Anambra
Literary Creativity Festival at Awka on October
15.”

He added that he was expecting that The
Patriot, through the contacts it had with the
President, prior to the setting up of the
committee, would be asked to nominate a
younger person to serve on the committee.  

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