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Heads May Roll As FG Restructures Aviation Agencies

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Minister of State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has said that restructuring of the agencies under his Ministry was one of the key policy initiatives of the Buhari administration.
Speaking yesterday in Abuja when members of the Senate Committee on Aviation visited the Ministry on an oversight function, Sirika said other key programmes of the regime include safety and security, infrastructure and airport concession, establishment of a national carrier and a Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility. Others are establishment of agro-allied cargo infrastructure and establishment of aircraft leasing company. He added that all the projects would be realised through Public Private Partnership (PPP) procurement method.
On the restructuring, Sirika noted that most of the parastatals suffered from manpower imbalance, adding that their operations were not in conformity with the Acts establishing them.
“That is why we want to restructure them so they become more efficient and service-oriented,” he said.
However, fears are rife that the exercise may lead to further sack of workers as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, Adamu Aliero,  toed the Minister’s path as he insisted some of the agencies were top heavy, a development, he said, gulped a huge chunk of their budgets.
On the performance of the 2016 budget as at November 9, Sirika revealed his Ministry got N19,858,571,749 as appropriation for personnel, overhead and capital, adding that the total amount released stood at N8,457,010,646, while N4,290,948,284 was spent.
He stated that the balance on appropriation was N11,401,561,102 while balance on amount released stood at N4,166,062,362. In his submission, he said the total releases was 43 per cent while the total average performance was 65 per cent.
In his remarks at the event, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, Adamu Aliero, lamented that some agencies were over bloated.
“There is one agency that has 10 General Managers. Paying salaries alone could take up to 30 per cent of what was appropriated as capital. That’s not good for this country,” Aliero said.
He expressed joy in the performance of the Ministry with regards to the budget, assuring that his committee would always support the Minister where necessary.

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Aisha Buhari Restructures Governors’ Wives’ Forum

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Aisha Buhari has restructured the Governors’ Wives’ Forum, GWF, to encourage cooperation and constructive partnership.
At a meeting with the 36 governors’ wives at the Presidential Villa, the forum was restructured into Northern Governors Wives Forum, NGWF, headed by Zamfara State Governor’s wife, Asma’u Abdul’aziz Yari, and Southern Governors’ Wives Forum led by Imo State Governor’s wife, Nneoma Nkechi Okorocha.
The president’s wife said the two fora would have distinct programmes of activities that would address the peculiar and numerous issues of both regions. According to her, it would also create better opportunity to complement each other’s efforts in solving those common national issues. She noted that the restructuring of the fora would encourage networking, cooperation and constructive partnership.
While noting that as wives and mothers, the primary role was to support their husbands, she stressed that private efforts must be geared towards programmes and projects that would impact positively on the lives of citizens, particularly the less privileged members of the society.
Aisha Buhari stated that with their privileged positions as wives of political office holders, there was need to impact positively on the lives of people.

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Police Restructures Management Team

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The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase has redeployed four Deputy Inspectors-General of Police to head departments and formations as part of efforts “to reposition the Force for better efficiency.”

A statement on Monday in Abuja by the police spokesman, Emmanuel Ojukwu said those affected include Dan’Azumi Doma who is now the DIG in-charge of Department of Finance and Administration,FHQ Abuja.

Others are Kakwe Katso, now DIG in-charge of Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department, Abuja; DIG Chintua Amajor-Onu, Department of Information and Communications Technology FHQ Abuja, while DIG Olawale Adeniji was transferred to the Department of Research and Planning, FHQ, Abuja.

“DIGs Mamman Tsafe in charge of Department of Logistics and Supply, FHQ Abuja, Saliu Argungu Hashimu, Department of Training and Development, FHQ Abuja and Sotonye Wakama, Department of Operations, FHQ Abuja still maintained their duty posts,” the statement added, noting that the postings were with immediate effect.

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