Reactions trail Tinubu’s tenure extension for Anunobi as NLN CEO

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s tenure hold for the main enforcement serviceman of the National Library of Nigeria, Professor Chinwe Veronica Anunobi, has attracted mixed reactions.

Recall that President Tinubu precocious extended the tenure of Anunobi for a last five-year term.

The determination has stirred mixed reactions among stakeholders.

While immoderate stakeholders lauded President Tinubu for Anunobi’s tenure extension, others kicked against the move.

Reacting successful a connection connected Saturday, Shehu Mustapha, the National Coordinator of the Coalition of Young Nigerian Librarians, said that the improvement would guarantee “continuity successful the implementation of ongoing reforms, the completion of the National Library Headquarters project, and the realization of the institution’s 2025-2030 Strategic Plan.”

Mustapha said Prof. Anunobi has distinguished herself arsenic a reformer and astute administrator, adding that since her archetypal assignment successful 2021, she has led respective organization reforms, including “the improvement and operationalization of the National Repository of Nigeria, the Newspaper and Magazine Locator, the Index and Abstract to Nigerian Newspapers, and the National Virtual Library of Nigeria.”

He called for focused enactment successful the country’s literate and, indeed, acquisition sectors.

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