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Nigeria civil service records tremendous improvement under Yemi-Esan – Perm Sec.
Dr Sani Gwarzo, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, has scored the nation’s Public Service high, considering numerous achievements under the leadership of Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan.
Gwarzo made the commendation at Juma’ah Prayer to mark the Civil Service Week, at the National Mosque Abuja on Friday.
He, therefore, called on all Muslim Faithful and all Nigerians to pray for the sustainability of the sector, being the engine room of the nation’s economy.
“The civil service has recorded tremendous improvement under the leadership of Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan and I cannot enumerate the number of areas of achievements to include digitisation of the civil service, performance management system.
“For the first time in history of Nigeria the office of the HOCSF does not work on paper, it is paperless at the moment.
“Everything you do, you interacts in that office, every approval process, every procedure is digitally maintained and that efficiency has also transcended down to the Ministries, ” Gwarzo said.
Dr Muhammad-Kabir Adam, Chief Imam of the National Mosque, in his sermon titled, ”Stand up to help one another”, called on Nigerians to try as much as they could to assist others who are struggling to live at such a difficult period we are in the country.
“The sermon of today is calling on Nigerians to stand to help one another. If you have, you also need to assist anyone that have not so that the life will be better for all as we are living together in this part of the world-that is Nigeria.
“Nigeria is our country, therefore, we have to assist one another. That is the main theme of the sermon of today. “
He also used the occasion to pray for all civil servants and leaders in the sector, tasking them to put more efforts to sustain their good works.
“We pray specially for the civil service celebration week. The civil service is the workforce of the country, they are the one that steering the management of this country.
“We call on them to continue to deliver good services as we regard them as representatives of Allah in their affairs. What they are doing is sacrificial services to the country, ” he said.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Anambra State Sector Command, has confirmed the death of a woman in an accident at Okpoko Market on the Asaba-Onitsha Road.
The Sector Commander, Mr Adeoye Irelewuyi, who confirmed the accident to journalists in Awka on Thursday, said that the woman was hit while she was crossing the road.
He said that the accident, which occurred on Wednesday, involved a commercial tow truck with registration number XA550BMA.
“Eyewitness report reaching us indicates that the truck was towing a vehicle in an uncontrollable speed along the axis.
“The vehicle that was being towed got detached from the tow truck.
“It hit and killed a female adult, who was said to be crossing the road, while the tow truck continued its movement.
“FRSC rescue team came to the scene and took the woman to Toronto Hospital, Onitsha, where she was confirmed dead and her body deposited at the hospital’s mortuary,” he said.
While sympathising with the family of the dead, the sector commander urged motorists, especially tow truck drivers, to exercise a high level of professionalism.
He also urged the drivers to always use standard equipment and avoid speeding.
The Chairman, Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), Lagos State Chapter, Mr Mojeed Iyiola, said the state government’s maize palliative to members of the association made a positive impact on the sector.
Iyiola said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos.
“We received about 150,000 tons of maize in February from the Lagos State government as palliative to cushion the effect of high feed prices.
“The major benefit of the palliative is that it actually cushioned the cost of production for most poultry farmers in the state.
“The palliative was beneficial as it made the cost of some poultry produce, especially eggs to drop,” Iyiola said.
He noted that prior to the palliative, a crate of egg was sold between N3,500 and N3,700 at the farm gate, but after the palliative, it now sells between N3,200 and N3,400.
According to the PAN chair, retailers and middlemen who sell from N3,800 to N4,200 do that for their personal gain.
“We have urged our members to sell their eggs at reasonable prices following the receipt of the palliative from the government.
“We appreciate the Lagos State government for the palliative but we also urge the federal government to do likewise, to further reduce the cost of production in the sector.
“This will consequently lead to drop in the prices of all poultry produce across board,” he said.
He said the palliative was shared among financial members of the association at no extra cost.
“As an association we shared the grains equally across PAN’s eight zones in the state equally. We also mandated each zone not the sell even a grain of the maize.
“We, however, considered new poultry farmers who wanted to the join the association as beneficiaries of the palliative,” said Iyiola.
He noted that through the palliative, more poultry farmers were recruited into the association.
“The maize was shared only to poultry farmers and not feed millers, it is the major component of poultry feed formulation,” he said.
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