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May 17, 2022

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Police Commission Promotes Former EFCC Boss, Ibrahim Magu To AIG Just Before Retirement

The suspended former Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has been promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police.

The spokesperson of the Police Service Commission, Ikechukwu Ani, Announced the development on Monday.

The development comes amid Magu’s expected retirement from the Nigeria Police Force, having clocked the mandatory retirement age of 60 on the 5th of May.

Magu was promoted alongside some senior officers at the 15th Plenary Meeting of the commission.

Ani said the commission also approved the promotion of 23 Deputy Commissioners to the next rank of Commissioners of Police; 31 Assistant Commissioners to Deputy Commissioners of Police and 63 Chief Superintendents of Police promoted to Assistant Commissioners of Police.

April 19, 2022

April 19, 2022 IFMNEWS

Afe Babalola Calls For Suspension Of 2023 Elections

The Legal luminary and elder statesman, Afe Babalola has said an interim government should replace the current administration at the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure in 2023.

Babalola, who is the founder of Afe Babalola University, told a news conference in Ado-Ekiti that the interim government should be in office for six months to chart a new course for Nigeria.

He also said the 2023 elections should be suspended until Nigeria has “a new-look peoples’ Constitution which should provide for part-time legislators and non-executive president’’ to conserve resources.

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria said members of the interim government should be drawn from all living former presidents and vice-presidents; some selected ministers and governors and delegates of prominent professional associations.

The elder statesman noted that such delegates should be elected on zero party basis.

Babalola said it was regrettable that the current 1999 Constitution, foisted on Nigerians by the military was no longer in tune with the realities of the day.

The legal luminary added that any person that would become the president of Nigeria should not be older than 60 years of age and must have a university degree.

Reacting to Afe-Babalola’s call in an interview with Inspiration FM, the Executive Chairman, Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, Debo Adeniran said it is only a sovereign national conference that can deliver a peoples’ constitution but he wondered if any government has the will power to do that.

Plateau Gov’t Set To Remove 413 Workers From Payroll

Plateau state Government will remove from its payroll 413 workers that are supposed to have retired, are retired or deceased.

The Head of Service of the state, Mr Sunday Hyat disclosed this at the end of the state executive council meeting on Wednesday in Jos.

He said the decision was based deliberations on the report submitted by the committee on Staff Audit and Verification of Civil Servants on Jan. 21.

He said the gesture would help in sanitizing the civil service to improve productivity and provide employment opportunities for many young graduates, who will help to rejig the service .

He expressed concern that the report revealed that some people who have died still had their names on the state’s payroll for a long time, while people who were suppose to retired changed their documents to avert the action.

“People who are supposed to retire go to their files to change their date of birth or date of employment so that they can stay longer than necessary,” he said .

He said sanitizing the civils service would help in reorganizing it through deploying workers to Ministries Department and Agencies (MDAs) that do not have requisite staff.

Hyat explained that the committee on staff verification also recommended that the production and issuance of staff Identity Cards(ID) should be centralized.

“The committee found out that especially in Ministry of Education not fewer than 300 staff were still holding ID cards purportedly signed and issued by a former secretary to the state government who left office in 2007.

“The recommendation is that ID cards must be re issued after five years to control impostors,” he said.

Speaking also at the briefing , the commissioner for information and communication, Mr Dan Manjang said the council approved that 316 staff be expunged from the payroll of government, because of their absence during the verification exercise conducted by the committee.

He said the council deliberated on the draft white paper report of the high powered committee on staff verification and audit inaugurated on April 20, 2021, to address some challenges obstructing service delivery , professionalism , accountability and transparency in the state.

“The committee found out that 566 officers in 34 MDAs were wrongly placed. The head of service and the civil service commission have been mandated to make sure that they are properly placed.

“The committee also found out that 722 officers in 49 MDAs altered and falsified their records.

” The committee also found out that 65 others falsified their records and overstayed in office and sanctions are being taken by the appropriate authorities,” he said.

He explained that following findings of the report, the state executive council has suspended and placed embargo on conversion especially into administrative officers and account cadres in the civil service.

He added that the council also approved the constitution of a medical board to evaluate ailing staff and make appropriate recommendations to government.

Manjang added that the council also approved the review of state government’s support to the Mighty Jet Football club.

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ASUU To Meet with Federal Government Today Over Strike

The Federal Government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) are expected to meet today.

This is as a result of the one-month warning strike embarked upon by the union.

While declaring the strike, Professor ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke blamed the government for failing to meet the demands of lecturers.

The demands include the revitalization of public universities, earned academic allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) promotion arrears, renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement, and inconsistencies in Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system (IPPIS) payments.

On Monday, Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations in the Ministry of Labor and Employment, Mr. Charles Akpan, confirmed that Senator Chris Ngige, will be meeting with the executives of the union and other relevant government agencies over the strike.

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