The Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir David Lawal, in a statement on Monday said “The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate disengagement of the following Chief Executive Officers of the under-listed Parastatals, Agencies and Commissions.
He has also approved that the most senior officers in the Parastatals, Agencies and Councils oversee the activities of the organizations pending the appointment of substantive Chief Executive Officers.
“Mr. President, however, thanked them for their invaluable services to the Nation and wishes them well in their future endeavours”.
The affected agencies are as follows:
Nigerian Television Authority (NTA)
Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN)
Voice of Nigeria (VON)
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)
Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF)
New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)
Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF)
Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB)
Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN)
Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund)
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)
Petroleum Equalization Fund
Nigeria Railways Corporation (NRC)
Bureau of Public Procurements (BPP)
Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE)
Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA)
Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON)
National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC)
Nigeria Investment Promotion Council (NIPC)
Bank of Industry (BoI)
National Centre for Women Development (NCWD)
National Orientation Agency (NOA)
Industrial Training Fund (ITF)
Nigerian Export-Import Bank
National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic In Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP)
The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, had earlier in the day announced the sack of the 6 heads of parastatals under his ministry namely Directors-General of NTA, Sola Omole, FRCN’s Ladan Salihu, VON’s Sam Worlu, NOA’s Mike Omeri, NBC’s Emeka Mba and the Managing Director of NAN Ima Niboro).
President Buhari sha. I’m pretty sure their replacements would all be APC supporters. This is definitely not change, its just a shift of power.
He is about to reward some people. Well its the way of politics. You win you appoint
Nooooooooooooooooo He’s going to put in PDP supporters just like Obama is going to nominate an anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-immigrant Supreme court Justice.
Great! Long overdue, all the FGN agencies need to be completely shaken up
Oya, if you daddy is there, sorry.
Wish them all the best in their future endeavors!!!! Where are they supposed to start from now as you have sacked them, rely on pension that may never come early.Shey na Murtala Muhammad era we dey???
Have you forgotten that they have enough looted in their a/c ,ki wo lo ma mu omi si
@Zeal, Did you read the names of the parastatals? They said head o not clerks…. If I hear say they have nothing to fall back on. You know what they must have achieved before taking on those roles? Not to talk of the perks that came with the job.
And it is because of past experiences that has caused people like them to learn and be ‘smart’ to the detriment of everybody in the country. Sometimes, make our leaders dey receive sense on how transform the country nah,
i hope they go to the courts to seek redress, however long it takes. militarization of the country. No job security for anyone.
Meanwhile since Fashola announced that we have hit 5,000mega watts all time high, i have spent more monies on diesel that i did when it was 3,000 and 4,000 mw- is every one infested with Lies? Mohammed?
Not surprised at his sacks, his own Dasuki funders has to be rewarded……. yeye dey smell.
The highest corruption is political corruption…. a man went to one single Northern university and picked FOUR Vice Chancellors from one spot and imposed on other universities?
what was the criteria??? from one uni????
Some one should tell Buhari that, that was a physical corruption!!!!!
Watch out for the replacement…..97% and 5%………..
Stop spreading lies. Replacement for the VC of Ado-Ekiti university was from the South-West.
My own sha is dear new DG NTA, please stop the presenters from wearing those awkward looking Western attire, learn from AIT on that regard.
More enemies for Buhari……
Bye Bye Onyeka the PRAISE SINGER
Am so happy o atleast dia hav been dis since. So let buhari employ new people so dat odas wil benefit too
Hope he gets to sack bad road, epileptic power supply, no respect for human right and corrupt practices in all our agencies soon too o
The truth is i never knew as a Nigerian that some or should i say most of these parastatals existed.
These ones that their kids are ogas in different places. It is time for them to rest and allow others abeg. All these people with houses in Abj abeg make dem go rest. They have tried.
Honestly,when i read some of these comments i want to weep.so,pple should seek redress because they have been sacked?Why must everything be reduced to politics?
Have you heard of the rot in some of these agencies.?Have you heard of the looting in NSITF and some others to fund politics?why do we refuse to be rational in our thinking sometimes?Didnt you all hear of the amounts most of these agencies tried to smuggle in to the budget?
President Buhari can never be a saint and can never be GEJ.Some of us are still so bitter that we will rather berate every action of govt and see no good in anything they do.Let us be patient pls.4 years is just around the corner and PMB CAN BE SENT PACKING
My DG got sacked too. Some ppl were sad, but most were happy!! Such is life.
I got comments alright, but I’ll just sit here and smh for nigeria, at ya’ll