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Buhari Deploys 9 Permanent Secretaries Including Ngige’s Wife (Full List)

August 4, 2021
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Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday, disclosed what the Federal Government is doing to end insecurity in the country. Osinbajo revealed this when receiving the Oluyin of Iyin Ekiti, Oba Adeola Ajakaiye, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement, titled, ‘What we are currently doing to improve security, by Osinbajo.’ The Vice President while speaking on the effort to tackle insecurity, said the supplementary budget sent to the National Assembly, on enhancing the capacity of the military and other security agencies, is part of the concerted efforts of the Buhari regime to beef up its response to the nation’s security challenges. Osinbajo charged traditional rulers, local and state governments to collaborate with the Federal Government in tackling insecurity. He said, “The President has recently constituted a committee that will look at the whole security infrastructure with a view to looking at the needs of the military, as well as the police and security agencies.” “The result of that is a bill before the National Assembly, a supplementary bill. The purpose of that bill is to present some of the needs of the military, as well as of security agencies in order to be able to beef up our response to the security challenges.” “We have to keep looking at how to support our (security) services to ensure that our country is safe. I can assure you that soon, the issue of insecurity will be a thing of the past and that we will all live in peace and prosperity in this country.” Osinbajo said, “There is no question at all that, at the level of community, we need to take decisive action, because most of these things occur at our community level.” “And I’m very happy to hear that you have a committee organised for the purpose of this (tackling insecurity) and that you’ve been able to contain the menace that we see in different parts of the country in your community.” “Any country with this number of security challenges must respond as robustly as possible.” “But it is also important to bear in mind that it takes a combined effort of all of us, at the local government level, state and federal levels; all of the levels; we need to come together to tackle this issue of insecurity.”

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment of nine federal permanent secretaries to new duty posts.

The approval was contained in a circular dated August 3, 2021, and titled ‘Deployment of permanent secretaries,’ which was signed by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folashade Yemi-Esan.

Those affected by the deployment are four newly appointed permanent secretaries and five old permanent secretaries including the wife of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, Dr. Evelyn Ngige.

The new permanent secretaries and their portfolios are Onwudiwe Ngozi as Permanent Secretary, Service Welfare Office, Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation; Ogunbiyi Olaniyi, Career Management Office of the HOCSF; Yusuf Ibrahim, Common Service Office of the HOCSF; and Adebiyi Olufunso, Ministry of Women Affairs.

The old permanent secretaries redeployed to new ministries are Evelyn Ngige from Staff Welfare Office of the HOCSF to the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Development; Nasir Gwazo from the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Development to the Ministry of Petroleum Resources; Bitrus Baku from the Ministry of Petroleum Resources to the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy; Mamman Mamuda from the Career Management Office of the HOCSF to the Ministry of Health; and Anthonia Ekpa from the Ministry of Women Affairs to the Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs.

“This deployment takes immediate effect and handing over and taking over process should be completed on or before Friday, August 6, 2021 except for Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health whose take over will be on August 13, 2021,” the circular noted.

Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has lamented the multiple court orders issued on the November 6 Anambra governorship election.

Naija News reports that various court orders have declared different candidates of the same party eligible for the Anambra election since INEC released the list of cleared candidates last month.

Speaking at the implementation meeting of the Voter Education and Publicity Department in Anambra State on Tuesday, INEC spokesman, Festus Okoye, said the Commission is worried that the various court orders may affect the conduct of the exercise.

Okoye added that some of the orders have the tendency of eroding the powers of the Commission and compromising its independence, powers and timelines for the conduct of the election.

This article was originally published on Nigeria News

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