Tinubu appoints Opeyemi Agbaje PENCOM chairman
President Bola Tinubu has appointed strategic policy analyst, Opeyemi Agbaje, as the Chairman of the National Pension Commission.
Mr Agbaje announced his appointment in an update sent to Peoples Gazette on Saturday.
He said, “On Monday, August 11th, I received a call from the HMF/CME informing me of my appointment as Chairman of the National Pension Commission.’’
He added that he had met with the director general of the commission for his first brief on PENCOM activities.
Mr Agbaje, an executive producer of the Policy Council TV Show and CEO RTC Advisory Services Limited, is noted for his writing on the economic policies in Nigeria.
He was previously on the board of the Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF) for two terms between 2011 and August 2019.
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