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Published 15 March 2021
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has approved the reappointment of Akin Olateru as the Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of the Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria.
Buhari also appointed Bako Matazu as the new Director-General of the Nigeria Meteorological Agency; and Alkali Modibbo as the new Rector of the Nigeria College of Aviation Technology, Zaria.
In a statement on Monday, the Federal Ministry of Aviation said the appointments were with immediate effect.
Olateru was first appointed AIB CEO in January 2017. An Aircraft Maintenance Engineer with Nigerian, UK and USA licenses, he began his career in engineering maintenance with Pan African Airlines and the Nigerian Police Air Wing after which he left Nigeria for further studies abroad.
NiMet’s forecast foregrounds food insecurity
Global researchers and agricultural scientists have said that stockpiling and trade restrictions by countries producing major food grains could lead to intercontinental food shortage, hunger and malnutrition for food import-dependent countries. x
The fear is intensified as the Nigerian Metrological Agency (NiMet) predicted crop failures as climate change induces elongated droughts amid insecurity for farmers, following the inability of armed forces to tame banditry and terrorism.
Hence, experts said Nigeria would become vulnerable, as wheat, maize, rice and other food and industrial crops are in short supply locally.
Affirming the possibility of the food crisis, a grain breeder and Vice-Chancellor of Al-Qalam University, Prof. Shehu Garki Ado, said the COVID-19 pandemic, locust infestations, drought and labour shortages are factors responsible for food supply chain disruptions, threatening food se