Biography
Goddy joined the Federal civil service in September 1984 as an Assistant Secretary II. He was posted as a senior assistant secretary to the Federal Development Authority (FDA) in Lagos In October 1985. in the same office, he was promoted to the post of Deputy Liaison officer in 1987. He became the personal assistant to the minister of special duties under the presidency, state house-Lagos. In 1989, Agba was selected as personal assistant to the minister of special duties under the presidency, He was moved to the ministry of foreign affairs as personal assistant to the minister of state on foreign affairs in December 1990. He was in this position till 1993 when he became the personal assistant to the secretary of the state till 1995 when he joined NNPC. At the nation’s oil company, he rose to the position of head of market research, crude oil marketing department, and later became the head of gas/gas liquids/condensate sales, GGLU Crude Oil Marketing Department in 2014, he left NNPC to join politics in his state.[2][11] After being nominated for the ministerial position by President Muhammadu Buhari in July, he was assigned the portfolio of Minister of State, Power on 21 August 2019