Tinubu appoints Nasir Abdulsalam as Ajaokuta Steel Company MD

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Nasir Naeem Abdulsalam as the Managing Director of the Ajaokuta Steel Company.

The appointment took effect from Thursday, April 3, 2025.

The Director of Information and Public Relations, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Segun Imohiosen, announced this via a statement issued on Friday, April 4.

Imohiosen said the appointment was in accordance with the provisions of the Certain Political and Judicial Office Holders (Salaries and Allowances, etc) Act 2008 as amended.

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He quoted Tinubu as Tinubu tasking the appointee “to leverage on his wealth of experience in the steel industry in his new assignment in revolutionising the company to generate important upstream and downstream industrial and economic activities that will position the nation as the industrial hub of Africa in line with the diversification drive of the Renewed Hope Agenda.”

Until his appointment, Abdulsalam served as the Technical Adviser to the Minister of Steel Development as well as the Special Assistant (Academics) to Director General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS).

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