President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has renewed the appointments of the Director-General of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Abdulhamid Salihu Dembos, and the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Ali Mohammed Ali, for another three-year term.
In a statement made available to The News Chronicle by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the President said the renewed tenure of the two media chiefs would take effect on October 20, 2026, following their initial appointments on October 20, 2023.
Dembos, an indigene of Yola, Adamawa State, is a former National President of the Radio, Television, Theatre and Art Workers Union (RATTAWU). He previously served as Executive Director of Marketing at the NTA after retiring from the agency in 2017.
He joined the NTA in 1989 as an announcer at its Kaduna station after completing his National Youth Service Corps programme and rose through the ranks, serving as General Manager of NTA Lokoja and NTA Kano.
He later became Acting Zonal Director of the NTA Kaduna Network Centre before his retirement in 2017.
Ali is a veteran journalist and media manager with more than three decades of experience, with a keen interest in media transformation, content development and adapting news delivery to the demands of an increasingly digital and diverse audience.
He holds a first degree in English from Bayero University, Kano; a graduate degree in International Affairs from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; and a Postgraduate Diploma in Mass Communication from Bayero University, Kano.
President Tinubu charged both chief executives to justify the confidence reposed in them by sustaining their commitment to the mandates of their respective organisations and advancing the objectives of the administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
