Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has approved the appointment of Dr Aondoakaa Asambe as Director General for the newly created Bureau for Livestock Development and Transboundary Animal Diseases Control.
The appointment was announced in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Sir Tersoo Kula in Makurdi on Friday.
Before his appointment, Asambe was the Principal Special Assistant to Alia on Livestock Development and Transboundary Animal Diseases Control.
The D-G is a member of the Nigeria Veterinary Medical Association and a registered veterinary surgeon with the Veterinary Council of Nigeria. He lectured at Federal University, Dutsima, for the past 12 years.
Asambe holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Agriculture, Makurdi (now Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi). He also holds a postgraduate degree in Food Animal Medicine from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
The governor also, in the statement, approved the appointment of Mr Peter Chieshe as Director General of the Benue Agro-Industrial Processing and Economic Transformation Bureau (BNAGRO).
Chieshe, a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, has many years of practical industrial experience and expertise, particularly in the design, building, and operation of rice and cereal processing.
Alia expressed optimism that the appointees would bring their wealth of experience to bear on their new assignments.