Breaking: Tinubu Increases Tenure of Top Govt Official as Details Emerge
- President Tinubu approved a two-year tenure extension for Surveyor-General AbuduGaniyu Adebomehin, effective from January 6, 2026, following OSGOF’s transfer to the Presidency
- The extension allows Adebomehin to complete key reforms in geospatial data systems, land management, and infrastructure coordination
- Tinubu tasked him with consolidating national land administration, reclamation, and erosion control reforms of strategic national importance
FCT, Abuja - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved a two-year extension of tenure for the Surveyor-General of the Federation, Mr AbuduGaniyu Adebomehin.
The extension, which will take effect from Monday, January 6, 2026, follows the recent transfer of the Office of the Surveyor-General of the Federation (OSGOF) to the Presidency.
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Adebomehin to consolidate ongoing reforms
According to a statement issued on Tuesday, 22 October 2025, via X, by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, the decision was made to allow Mr Adebomehin to complete critical reforms already initiated under his leadership.
“The Surveyor-General has spearheaded significant reforms across geospatial data systems, which the President is eager to see completed,” Onanuga said.
Focus on land administration and infrastructure
President Tinubu has directed Mr Adebomehin to consolidate these reforms over the next two years, with a focus on national land management and administration, highways and abutting land infrastructure coordination, reclamation, and erosion control programmes.
“These initiatives are of strategic national importance, and the President expects the Surveyor-General to ensure their successful execution,” the statement added.
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Mr Abdulganiyu Adebomehin was first appointed as the Surveyor-General of the Federation (SGoF) by the late President Muhammadu Buhari, with effect from 5 January 2022.
He is credited with leading reforms aimed at modernising Nigeria’s geospatial data infrastructure and enhancing coordination among agencies involved in land and environmental management.
Nigerians react to Tinubu's decision
Reacting to this development, Nigerians have taken to their social media handle to register their thoughts.
@okoyemekun said:
"Asiwaju and his real estate side hustle fah. Asiwaju is marking the real estate along the Lagos-calabar Coastal highway, Lagos-Sokoto Highway,u can be rest assured compensation won't be an issue as far as Asiwaju is d president,na mumu dey bet say those roads won't b finished."
@Okeygeraldino said:
"It is very important to do things right. We already have rules in public service. 5 year tenure is 5 year tenure. But Buhari started all these nonesense sha.."
@Akin_Malaolu said:
"Can someone please tell me of one non Yoruba that got his or her time in office extended. Yoruba too much oooo."
Tinubu approves establishment of new Court of Appeal
Previously, Legit.ng reported that Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun announced that the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government has approved the establishment of the Court of Appeal in the state.
The governor announced the development in a social media post on Monday, September 15, adding that the appellate court will be established in Abeokuta, the state capital.
Governor Abiodun expressed the confidence that the development would bring "quicker dispensation of justice" for the people of the state and that it would relieve the burden of loads on the shoulders of the "Ibadan Division" of the court and "strengthen the foundation of fairness in our dear state."
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