The Benue State Executive Council has been dissolved.
The state Governor, Rev. Father Hyacinth Alia left only the office of the Chief of Staff, which will now being occupied by former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Barr. Moses Atagher.
Indeed, Atagher, the new Chief of Staff, is a seasoned administrator and former acting Managing Director of the Federal Mortgage Bank.
According to the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Terso Kula, the dissolution affects only the commissioners.
Governor Alia, who thanked the outgoing commissioners for their two years of service, urged those who may not be reappointed to remain in the party and continue to support the administration.
Barr. Bemsen Mnyim, who spoke on behalf of the former commissioners, thanked the governor for the opportunity to serve, describing the experience as a learning process.
The former commissioners are to hand over to the permanent secretaries of their respective ministries.
Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.
Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.
Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).
He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.
He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.
Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled: Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.
