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Actress Tonto Dikeh gets political appointment

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Tonto Dikeh, Nollywood actress and diva, has gotten a new appointment from President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

She has been appointed as the new Director, Social & Empowerment of Committee of Youth on Mobilization and Sensitization (CYMS).

Dikeh disclosed this on her Instagram page on Thursday.

She wrote: “Today, shortly after my TV live interview on post covid-19 women empowerment to mark the 2020 International Youth Day.

“I was presented to Mr Polycarp Shambo, the Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Government of the Federation (SGF) in Abuja by the Director General, Mr Obinna Nwaka and the Secretary General, Yerima Aminu Isa as the new Director, Social & Empowerment of Committee of Youth on Mobilization and Sensitization (CYMS).

“The meeting was brief as a result of PTF briefing which he must attend. I was really impressed meeting with a very brilliant, supportive and dedicated man working in the Presidency.”

The 35-year-old actress has been empowering indigent Nigerians with foodstuff and other items since the beginning of Coronavirus lockdown, through The Tonto Dikeh Foundation.

On 5 February 2016, Dikeh was named an Ambassador to a property firm in Abuja (NUMATVILLE) worth millions of Naira. On 9 January 2018, Dikeh gets an endorsement as a brand ambassador for a beauty and skincare brand (Pels International).The beauty brand is popularly known for making skin brightening beauty products.

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