…As Buhari Okays Deployment of Three Others
By Our Reporter
Abuja (Precise Post) — President Muhammadu Buhari has approved new process for the appointment of permanent secretaries.
This is also as he has approved the appointment of new Permanent Secretaries to fill the slot of Kwara, Kebbi, Abia, Anambra, Cross River, Kaduna, Kano, Oyo, Rivers, Sokoto, Adamawa, Yobe, Gombe and Jigawa states, who will retire in 2020, as well as fill existing vacancies in Zamfara and Kogi states.
In a memo dated March 23, 2020, by Olawunmi Ogunmosunle, Director of Communication, office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, President Buhari also gave approval for the commencement of the process for the selection of eligible Directors to fill the vacancies.
By this development, officers in the main stream of the federal civil service, who attained the substantive rank of Director, on Salary Grade level 17 on or before January 1, 2018, who had updated their records on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, Verification Portal and hail from the aforementioned states and are not retiring from the service earlier than, or on December 31, 2021, are eligible to participate.
The memo enjoined ministries/offices to “forward the list of all eligible directors on SGL 17 in their ministry/office; their confidential and personal files; 20 copies of their curriculum vitae; brief on each of the directors in the attached format, to be produced in Microsoft word and submitted in both hard 20 copies and soft copies to the office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation.
In a related development, the President has also approved the deployment of three Permanent Secretaries.
In a memo by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, Jalal Arabi will leave the State House for the newly created Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, while Tijjani Umar will replace him at the State House.
Sabiu Zakari, hitherto Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation is now in charge of the Ministry of Defence.
