President
Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday approved the appointment of Engr. Babachir
David Lawal as the Secretary to the
Government of the
Federation.
He
also named Alhaji Abba Kyari as his Chief of Staff.
The
appointments were contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the
President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina.
Other
appointments approved by the President, according to the statement, were Col.
Hameed Ibrahim Ali (retd.) – Comptroller-General, Nigerian Customs
Service; Mr. Kure Martin Abeshi – Comptroller-General, Nigerian
Immigration Service; Senator Ita Enang – Senior Special Assistant on
National Assembly Matters (Senate); Suleiman A. Kawu – SSA
to National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives).
Adesina
said all the appointments took immediate effect.
Lawal,
the new SGF hails from Hong Local Government Area, Adamawa State.
He
graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1979 with a Bachelor of
Engineering Degree and worked with the Delta Steel Company, Aladja, and
Nigerian External Telecommunications Limited and Data Sciences Limited before
establishing his own ICT and Telecommunications consulting firm in 1990.
He
is also a member of the Nigeria Computer Society, the Nigeria Society of
Engineers and the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in
Nigeria.
Kyari,
the new Chief of Staff to the President, holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees
from the University of Cambridge and the University of Warwick in Law and
Sociology.
He
has worked with the New Nigeria Development Company, New Africa Holdings,
African International Bank, United Bank for Africa, Unilever, and Mobil in
various capacities over the years.
The
new Comptroller-General of Customs holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in
Criminology. He was military administrator of Kaduna State from 1996 to
1998.
The
new Comptroller- General of Immigration, Abeshi, hails from Nasarawa
State.
He
joined the Nigerian Immigration Service in 1989 as an Assistant
Comptroller.
His
educational qualifications include a Masters Degree in Public Administration.
Mr.
David Parradang was last week Friday suspended as the NIS boss for embarking on
illegal recruitment.
Plateau
State Governor, Simon Lalong, had on Monday led him to the Presidential Villa,
Abuja, to beg the President.
The
appointment of a new boss for the service dismissed the possibility of
Parradang’s recall.
Source: Punch Newspaper
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