President Goodluck Jonathan at the weekend continued his last minute wave of appointments with five changes effected at the Federal Ministry of Eduction in one fell swoop.

The president has appointed Prof. Abdulrashid Garba as the new Registrar of the National Examinations Council (NECO).

A statement from the ministry of education signed by Mallam Sule Ya’u Sule, Senior Special Assistant to the minster noted that the president has also appointed Prof. Monday Tommy Joshua as the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE).

Also appointed is Prof. Ismail Junaidu as the Executive Secretary, Nigeria Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC).

Others who benefitted from the latest appointments by Jonathan are Prof. Bashir Mohammed Fagge who is now the new Provost of the Federal College of Education (Technical), Bichi and Dr. Abubakar Abdul Dzukogi who has been appointed Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Bida.

Sule further noted that the appointments are with immediate effected.

He added that, while Professors Garba, Joshua, and Junaidu “are to serve for five years as their first tenure”, Prof. Fagge and Dr. Dzukogi “are to serve for a period of four years respectively.”