NPA Names Maltok New GM Corporate And Strategic Communication

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has appointed Mrs. Josephine Maltok as the new General Manager (GM), Corporate and Strategic Communications (C&SC) on Tuesday, January 10, 2023.
Maltok took over from Mrs. Oluyemisi Oyinlola, a lawyer, who held the office for about one month.
Following her redeployment, stakeholders in the maritime industry once again hailed the Managing Director, Mallam Mohammed Bello-Koko, for using a professional yardstick in ensuring that the department is handled by well-trained and experienced in-house personnel.
Those who reacted to the development see this as a clear departure from the tradition established by his predecessors of picking just any personnel from other departments to head a unit endowed with qualified media and Public Relations (PR) practitioners.
They added that Bello-Koko broke the jinx when he appointed Chief Ibrahim Nasiru, who retired last October, as the General Manager of the unit.
Maltok, an experienced media and Public Relations management practitioner was for many years, the NPA’s Head of the Overseas Liaison Office in London. She returned to Nigeria last year to head the Administration Division of the Authority as its GM from where she was moved to the new position.
The soft-spoken new image maker, who hails from Plateau State, worked as a Public Relations Officer (PRO) in the defunct Western Zone of NPA in Apapa and later moved to the Calabar Port.
She also worked at the agency’s defunct head office in Abuja after which she came to serve at the former Roll-On Roll-Off (RoRo) Port in Tin Can, Lagos, even as she equally headed the PR Unit of the Lagos Port Complex (LPC), Apapa.
Maltok was to later serve as the National Assembly Liaison Officer of NPA in the Abuja liaison office where she was later elevated to Assistant General Manager (AGM).
At her promotion to a General Manager, she headed the Servicom Division before moving to the London office, just as her colleagues and peers have always quoted her as one who comports herself as having “been privileged to work with and be mentored by exceptional people.”
However, Oyinlola, who held sway at the C&SC briefly has redeployed to her former department, as General Manager, Legal Services/Board, as staff members of the department saw her as one, who not only hit the ground running but was also passionate and full of compassion for them and all stakeholders, including journalists who came in contact with her.