President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi as mandate secretary for the newly formed Federal Capital Territory Administration’s (FCTA) Women Affairs Secretariat.

This was disclosed in a statement by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister’s Director of Press, Anthony Ogunleye, via a post on FCTA’s official X handle.

Ogunleye noted that Benjamins-Laniyi will be critical to the FCTA’s mission to improve the well-being and empowerment of women and children in the FCT.

Her appointment comes only days after the President sanctioned the formation of a Women Affairs Secretariat to address women’s issues in the FCT Administration through the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike.

Benjamins-Laniyi was born in 1965, and she is from Ogun State.