Nigerian major newspapers today, November 11, focused on the recent
sack of 17 permanent secretaries and the ongoing crisis in the National
Assembly over the newly constituted committees.
There was a shake up in the federal civil service yesterday as President Muhammadu Buhari retired 17 permanent secretaries, appointed 18 new ones and redeployed 36 top officials.
The president met with the former permanent secretaries at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where they were informed of their retirement.
Acting Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, led them to the closed-door meeting, Daily Sun reports.
According to Vanguard, If the deployments are anything to go by, the president might work with 25 ministries, seven less than the 32 that his predecessor, Dr Goodluck Jonathan operated, as 25 of the 36 permanent secretaries were deployed to ministries, while 11 were deployed to various offices in the presidency, Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF), and Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF).
Ministries that may have been scrapped or merged with others include Aviation, Lands and Urban Development, Trade and Investment, Police Affairs, Youth Development, Interior, Tourism and Communication Technology.
The Guardian reports that presidency sources confirmed that retirement of the permanent secretaries was part of efforts to overhaul and strengthen the Federal Civil Service.
Most of the permanent secretaries, including the Acting Head of the Federal Civil Service, Mrs Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, met yesterday with Buhari behind closed doors at the presidential villa, with many of them emerging from the meeting wearing long faces.
A reading of events in Abuja yesterday showed that Buhari, who begins effective governance today when he inaugurates his cabinet would not want power vacuum in the bureaucracy. And so he did what his predecessors never attempted as he deployed all the 18 new permanent secretaries along with the general posting yesterday to the 25 ministries and 11 agencies that constitute the federal bureaucracy in the nation’s capital.
A source at the meeting told The Nation that the president informed the permanent secretaries who were leaving that it was time to go and wished them well in their future endeavours.
The source said affected were those senior to the Acting Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita.
Oyo-Ita, who assumed office on October 21, was said to have wept at the meeting after the names of those to go were unveiled.
A statement by the president’s special adviser on media and publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said that the appointments and deployments were with effect from yesterday.
Meanwhile, The Punch reports that tension heightened at the House of Representatives on Tuesday, November 10, over alleged moves by the caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to remove the Majority Leader, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila.
There was also a bid to place some of his allies on six months’ suspension.
Gbajabiamila and some of his supporters in the House had on Monday boycotted the inauguration of the 96 standing committees of the lower federal legislative chamber by the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, to protest “unfair treatment” of the majority APC in the distribution of the committees.
At the House of Representatives, tempers flared as two members exchanged hot slaps following disagreement over juicy committees’ leadership following the rift over appointments of members to chair various standing committees in the House of Representatives and taking a new turn, a member, Hon. Ahmed Kaita who belongs to the “Loyalists” yesterday stated that no attempt made by anyone will remove the House Leader Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila from his position.
While speaking with journalists after an APC caucus meeting, the law maker angrily said that the Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara will only have a smooth ride in the House if he aligns himself with the party’s wishes and that of the President Muhammadu Buhari.
There was a shake up in the federal civil service yesterday as President Muhammadu Buhari retired 17 permanent secretaries, appointed 18 new ones and redeployed 36 top officials.
The president met with the former permanent secretaries at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where they were informed of their retirement.
Acting Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, led them to the closed-door meeting, Daily Sun reports.
According to Vanguard, If the deployments are anything to go by, the president might work with 25 ministries, seven less than the 32 that his predecessor, Dr Goodluck Jonathan operated, as 25 of the 36 permanent secretaries were deployed to ministries, while 11 were deployed to various offices in the presidency, Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF), and Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF).
Ministries that may have been scrapped or merged with others include Aviation, Lands and Urban Development, Trade and Investment, Police Affairs, Youth Development, Interior, Tourism and Communication Technology.
The Guardian reports that presidency sources confirmed that retirement of the permanent secretaries was part of efforts to overhaul and strengthen the Federal Civil Service.
Most of the permanent secretaries, including the Acting Head of the Federal Civil Service, Mrs Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, met yesterday with Buhari behind closed doors at the presidential villa, with many of them emerging from the meeting wearing long faces.
A reading of events in Abuja yesterday showed that Buhari, who begins effective governance today when he inaugurates his cabinet would not want power vacuum in the bureaucracy. And so he did what his predecessors never attempted as he deployed all the 18 new permanent secretaries along with the general posting yesterday to the 25 ministries and 11 agencies that constitute the federal bureaucracy in the nation’s capital.
A source at the meeting told The Nation that the president informed the permanent secretaries who were leaving that it was time to go and wished them well in their future endeavours.
The source said affected were those senior to the Acting Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita.
Oyo-Ita, who assumed office on October 21, was said to have wept at the meeting after the names of those to go were unveiled.
A statement by the president’s special adviser on media and publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said that the appointments and deployments were with effect from yesterday.
Meanwhile, The Punch reports that tension heightened at the House of Representatives on Tuesday, November 10, over alleged moves by the caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to remove the Majority Leader, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila.
There was also a bid to place some of his allies on six months’ suspension.
Gbajabiamila and some of his supporters in the House had on Monday boycotted the inauguration of the 96 standing committees of the lower federal legislative chamber by the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, to protest “unfair treatment” of the majority APC in the distribution of the committees.
At the House of Representatives, tempers flared as two members exchanged hot slaps following disagreement over juicy committees’ leadership following the rift over appointments of members to chair various standing committees in the House of Representatives and taking a new turn, a member, Hon. Ahmed Kaita who belongs to the “Loyalists” yesterday stated that no attempt made by anyone will remove the House Leader Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila from his position.
While speaking with journalists after an APC caucus meeting, the law maker angrily said that the Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara will only have a smooth ride in the House if he aligns himself with the party’s wishes and that of the President Muhammadu Buhari.
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