Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has forwarded the name of Joana Nnazua Kolo, a 26-year-old National Youths Service Corps member, currently serving in Jigawa state to the State House of Assembly as commissioner-nominee.
The governor also sent the names of other three women to the state Parliament on Tuesday.
Miss Kolo who hails from Edu local government area of the state is the youngest commissioner-nominee in the state’s history.
She is a 2018 graduate of Library Science from the Kwara State University (KWASU) and a grassroots mobiliser.
Kolo is also known as an ardent advocate of community development.
If confirmed, she would be Nigeria’s youngest commissioner, taking the trophy from Oyo State’s 27-year-old Oluwaseun Fakorede.
She is presently teaching at Model Boarding Junior Secondary School Guri, Jigawa state.
Her screening for the cabinet seat would hold after she rounds off her NYSC service in the next two weeks.
The three other nominees are professionals and grassroots politicians: Mrs Sa’adatu Modibbo-Kawu; Arinola Fatimoh Lawal; and Aisha Ahman Pategi, according to a correspondence AbdulRazaq forwarded to the House and read at the Tuesday plenary by the Speaker, Rt. Honourable Salihu Yakubu Danladi
Governor AbdulRazaq on his verified Facebook account on Tuesday said: “Today, we forwarded an all-women four Commisioner-nominees to the State House of Assembly. The list includes 26 year-old Joana Nnazua Kolo, Aisha Ahman Pategi, Arinola Fatima Lawal and Mrs Sa’adatu Modibbo-Kawu.
“Also Mrs Folashade Omoniyi, former MD/CEO of FBN Mortgages Limited, has been nominated as the new Chairperson of KW-IRS. She would succeed Prof Murtala Awodun whose tenure expires soon.”
