Ikechukwu Onyemekara Becomes New Head Corporate and Strategic Communication Of NPA

Ikechukwu Onyemekara Becomes New Head Corporate and Strategic Communication Of NPA
By Okezie Nnadi
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has made new appointments and deployment of its middle- cadre staff in what the management regarded as strategic move to shore up its performance.
In the latest appointments made by the Managing Director of the Authority, Dr Abubakar Dantsoho,
Mr. Ikechukwu Onyemekara has been appointed as the General Manager and redeployed to head the Corporate & Strategic Communications Division.
Onyemekara, until his new appointment, was Technical Assistant on Protocols, a position he held under three consecutive Managing Directors.
Speaking after the announcement, Dantsoho who came to the job with decades of sector-specific experience ,having commenced his career at the NPA as a Youth Corp member said “these appointments represent our deliberate strategy to deploy the wealth of experience of the appointees to national advantage”.
The appointments, which takes immediate effect, reorganized some Divisions to align with the direction of the Federal Ministry of Marine & Blue Economy retained Dr (Mrs) Chinwe Nwokolo, Pharmacist, Hadiza Sani and Mr. Babatunde Gbotolorun as General Managers Medical, Abuja Liasion and ICT Divisions respectively.
The new appointees named to head various Divisions include Captain Jerome Angyunwe, Engr. Richard Unde, Engr. Mukhtar Isa, Mr. Anthony Edosomswan, Mr. Dapo Adekunle, Mr. Victor Gofwan, Mr. Rabiu Dambatta, Mrs Priscilla Maduka, Mrs Sarah Ballah, Mrs Zainab Dantiye, Engr. Anas Suleiman, Mr. Adeayo Oni, Mr. Abdulkadir Gusau Mr. RAB Salau, Barr. Nurrudeen Abdulkadir, Mr. Seyi Iyawe, Barr. Ethel Uduehi, Barr. Nansel Zhimwan, Barr. Ahmad Wanka, Mr. Fatai Oladapo, Mr. Ibrahim Lukman, Engr. Abdul Isah and Mr. Charles Okaga.