The National Assembly now has a new substantive Clerk, Mr. Kamorudeen Ogunlana. Mr. Ogunlana had been nominated to the position in December 2024 by the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC). His assumption of duties follows the retirement of the previous Clerk, Alhaji Sani Magaji Tambawal on January 31st 2025.
Mr. Kamorudeen a lawyer has had extensive work and experience in the National Assembly and is expected that his exeprience would put him in good stead to pilot the affairs of National Assembly Bureaucy during his tenure.
The Senate chambers of the National Assembly also has a new Clerk – Mr. Godwin, who takes over from Barr. Chinedu Akubueze who retired in December 2024. Mr. Akubueze has gone on to be appointed as Chief of Staff to the Senate President. Also in the National Assembly, the position of Clerk of the Committee on Electoral Matters have become vacant with the movement of its Clerk Dr. Bello Olatunji to a new position as Chief of Staff to the Clerk of the National Assembly.
It is expected that the important position of the Clerk to the Senate Electoral Matters Committee wil be filled very shortly. Observers of National Assembly bureaucracy anticipates several more retirements and movements in positions as several Directors and Senior level Staff of the National Assembly are set to retire or be reassigned to new positions.