Gov -Ortom appoints Nathaniel Ikyur as SSA on Public Utilities,Environment and Sanitation.

The Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has approved the appointment of Nathaniel Ikyur as his Senior Special Assistant on Public Utilities, Environment and Sanitation.



Ikyur is a journalist and has worked with distinction at Vanguard Newspapers, a national daily in Nigeria as Political/Judicial Correspondent in Abuja and later the Bureau chief in Kano. He holds a combined Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass Communications/ English from Bayero University, Kano.
The appointment takes immediate effect.

With this new appointment, the governor is set to correct the imbalance in the provision of, and appreciation and maintenance of public utilities and the envrionmental sanitation across Benue state.

The new SSA was a Senior Legislative Aide to Rep Fraouk Mohammed Lawan from 2003 to 2011. From 2012 to 2015, he served as Senior Special Assistant to former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, now governor of Sokoto State.

He aslo played a key role in the formation of the APC and participated actively in key meetings that gave birth to the party as Special Assistant to Dr Mohammed Lame who served as Secretary of the Merger committee for the ACN, ANPP, CPC.

In the run up to the 2015 general elections, he served as the Director of Social Media for Ortom/Abounu Campaign Organisation.

Ikyur has written a posthumous biography on the first executive governor of Benue State entitled: APER AKU: The Rise of Minority Politics in Nigeria. He has also edited STATE VIOLENCE in Tivland: A Compendium on the 2001 Tiv/ Jukun Ethnic Violence. He is married and they have three children