Engr. Jatto Adams

BY FRANCIS EZEM

The management of the Nigerian Ports Authority NPA has approved the appointment of Engr. Jatto Adams as the new General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications.

This is in line with its determination to further reinvigorate the authority’s operations and the reengineering of the process of dissemination of information towards an efficient service delivery.

Jatto who hails from Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State, holds a Master of project Management (MPM), a Post Graduate Diploma in Shipping Management and a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical).

A statement signed by the authority’s Assistant General Manager, Corporate and Straategic Communications, Mallam Isah Suwaid, said that the new spokesman belongs to various professional bodies. These include Member Nigerian Society of Engineers (MNSE), Fellow of the Institute of Shipping Technology (FIST), Fellow of the Institute of Credit Administration (FICA), even as he is also a Certified Public- Private Partnership specialist.

Before his recent redeployment, the new image maker had put in more than three decades of hard work, dedication and commitment with the organisation, having served as the General Manager with the Land & Asset Administration as well as the Engineering Maintenance Department.

In addition, he has in recent times attended international and local training programmes, some of which include Project Management Course, (Dubai), Port Master Plan (Belgium), Capacity Building in Leadership for Development and Public Good (Kansas State University USA, IP3 Washington DC Labour Relations and collective bargaining, Lagos, Corporate Image and Personality Development, Lagos and Managing and Leading strategic change amongst several others.

He was also one time the Asst. General Manager Procurement and Managing Director, Seaview Properties limited, a Subsidiary of NPA, and was also Chief Port Engineer Tin Can Island Port to mention but a few.

He is happily married with children.