Wike appoints aide on development control, planning

File Copy: Senior Special Assistant on Development Control and Planning to the FCT Minister, Mukhtar Galadima

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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has appointed Mukhtar Galadima as Senior Special Assistant on Development Control and Planning.

The appointment was announced in a statement issued on Wednesday by the minister’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka.

According to the statement, Galadima is a seasoned town planner with over 30 years of experience in the Federal Capital Territory Administration, where he served in the Department of Development Control under the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council as well as the Satellite Towns Development Agency.

“The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike has appointed Town Planner Mukhtar Usman Galadima as the Senior Special Assistant on Development Control and Planning,” Olayinka stated.

Before his appointment, Galadima served as Director of the Department of Development Control from 2016 to 2025, until he retired from the civil service last month.

“He was a member of several ministerial committees, including the Abuja Masterplan Restoration Task Team, Review of Revoked Titles and Change of Land Use,” statement added.

Olayinka further said his appointment as Senior Special Assistant takes immediate effect.

Nathaniel has for the past year covered civil societies, religion, metro and recently the women's ministry as correspondent with Punch Newspapers

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