President Bola Tinubu has renewed the tenures of the Director-General of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) for an additional three years.
Special Adviser on Information and Strategy Bayo Onanuga in a statement said the move preserves continuity at two of the country’s key state media institutions.
Abdulhamid Salihu Dembos, DG of the NTA, and Ali Mohammed Ali, MD of NAN, were first appointed by President Tinubu on Oct. 20, 2023.
The statement said their new terms take effect October 20, 2026, extending both executives’ leadership through a second full three-year cycle.
Dembos, a native of Yola in Adamawa State, has a long career within the NTA. He entered the broadcaster as an announcer at the Kaduna station after completing his National Youth Service in 1989 and later served as general manager at the Lokoja and Kano stations.
He retired in 2017 as acting zonal director of the NTA Kaduna Network Centre and subsequently returned to serve as director-general. He is a former national president of the Radio, Television, Theatre and Art Workers Union.
Ali is a veteran journalist and media manager with more than three decades of experience. His resume reflects a focus on digital content development and adapting news delivery for a more pluralistic information environment.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in English and a postgraduate diploma in mass communications from Bayero University, Kano, and a graduate degree in international affairs from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
President Tinubu urged both executives to justify his confidence by sustaining commitment to their agencies’ mandates and by advancing the administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda—an implicit signal that the government expects state media to play an active role in communicating policy priorities.
