Meet The New NYSC Director General

Brig-Gen Johnson B Olawumi

The Federal Government has newly appointed a director-general, Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi, who resumed office at the NYSC headquarters in Abuja on Monday 6th of January 2014.The new DG who succeeds Brigadier General Nnamdi Okore-Affia (rtd) promised to be just, fair and sincere in the management of the scheme.

Olawumi said, “I have come with the desire and determination to serve diligently.”

During his tenure, Okore-Affia remarked that his administration accomplished the expansion of the scheme’s administrative structure.

Full name: Brig-Gen Johnson B Olawumi FSS MSS CM psc (+) psc (joint) fdc (fellow Defence College)

Education: 

• Primary education from  Army Children School, Mokola, Ibadan 
• Secondary Education from CAC Grammer School, Akure in Ondo State
• B.Sc Mathemetics from NDA in 1988.
• B.Eng Mechanical Engineering from University of Ilorin in 1997.
• MA Defence Studies from the Kings College, University of London in 2006.

Life in The Nigerian Army:

He was  

• enlisted into the Nigerian Army as a cadet of the 36 Regular Course on 24 September 1984 
• commissioned into the Nigerian Army Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' Corps on 23 September 1989.

He  attended

• Regimental Intelligence and Security Officers' Course at The Nigerian Army Intelligence School, Apapa in 1990.
• Young Officers’ Course Infantry in Jaji, 1991.
• Anti Tank Platoon Commanders' Course in Jaji, 1991.
• EME Young Officers’ Course, NASEME Auchi in 1992.
• Junior Staff Course at Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji in 1998.
• EME Company Commanders' Course, NASEME Auchi in the year 2000.
• Senior staff Course at Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji from August 2002 to July 2003.
• Advanced Command and Staff Course at Shiverenham, United Kingdom from August 2005 to July 2006.
• National Defence College, Abuja from September 2010 to August 2011.

Past Postings and Appointments

• Scaling Officer, Technical Group, Yaba 1989-1990
• Adjutant 22 Armoured Brigade Workshop, Ilorin 1990-1992
• Production Officer, 4 Mechanical Brigade Workshop, Ilorin, 1997-1998.
• production officer, 1 Base Workshop, Yaba 1998-1999.
• Military Assistant to Commandant NASEME, 1999-2000.
• GSO 1 Trg/Ops, HQ NASEME, Lagos 2000-2002.
• Production Officer, 920 Div Workshop, Ibadan 2003-2004.
• Commanding Officer, Armed Forces Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Workshop, Abuja 2004.
• Directing staff, AFCSC, Jaji, 2004-2007
• Commanding Officer, 950 Div Workshop, Enugu, 2007-2008.
• Deputy Director, Department of Logistics, Army headquarters Department of Policy and Plans, 2011-2012.
• Principal Staff Officer to the Chief of Army Staff 2013.

His Decorations and Awards:

• FSS, MSS, psc(+), psc (joint) and fdc. (fellow Defence College).

Eko koppas diary wishes the new DG a successful tenure and we hope he continues and improves on the Good works of his predecessor.