{"id":445915,"date":"2011-06-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/23\/jonathan-appoints-otunla-as-new-accountant-general\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T06:00:00","slug":"jonathan-appoints-otunla-as-new-accountant-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/23\/jonathan-appoints-otunla-as-new-accountant-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan appoints Otunla as new Accountant-General"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mr. Jonah Otunla as the Accountant-General of the Federation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The approval was announced on Wednesday by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Prof. Oladapo Afolabi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Afolabi, in a statement made available to our correspondent, said the appointment of the new Accountant-General would take effect from July 1, 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the President also confirmed the Acting AGF, Mr. Aderemi Ogunsanya, as a subtantive AGF until June 30 when he will retire from the service.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ogunsanya had served as the acting Accountant-General of the Federation after the retirement of Ibrahim Dankwabo in December last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Otunla was born on June 12, 1955 and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in the Social Sciences from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, Osun State, in 1979.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was confered with a Fellowship of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, amongst other professional qualifications.<\/span><\/p>\n

Otunla started his career as an Account Management Trainee (Audit) with the then Lever Brothers Nigeria Plc (now Unilever) from 1980 \u2013 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n

He then moved to the public service at the Oyo State Agricultural Development Programme (World Bank Assisted) \u2013 1989-1997, from where he rose to become the State Accountant-General (1997-2004).<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2004 he transferred to join the Federal Civil Service in the Office<\/span><\/p>\n

of the Accountant-General of the Federation and had served as Director, Commercial\/Finance, National Hospital,<\/span><\/p>\n

Abuja; Director of Finance and Accounts at the Nigeria Immigration Service; Ministry of Defence and at the Federal Ministry of Education.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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