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Nigeria civil service records tremendous improvement under Yemi-Esan – Perm Sec.

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10 months ago

July 28, 2023

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.

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Senate approves death penalty for drug traffickers

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May 9, 2024

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Senate on Thursday, May 9, approved the death penalty for those convicted on the charge of drug trafficking in the country.

The punishment prescribed in the extant NDLEA Act is a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

The resolution of the Senate followed its consideration of a report of the Committees on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters and Drugs and Narcotics, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024.

The Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights & Legal Matters presented the report during plenary, Senator Mohammed Monguno (APC-Borno North).

The bill, which passed its third reading, aims to update the list of dangerous drugs, strengthen the operations of the NDLEA, review penalties, and empower the establishment of laboratories.

Section 11 of the current act prescribes that “any person who, without lawful authority; imports, manufactures, produces, processes, plants or grows the drugs popularly known as cocaine, LSD, heroin or any other similar drugs shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to be sentenced to imprisonment for life” was amended to reflect a stiffer penalty of death.

Although the report did not recommend a death penalty for the offence, during consideration, Senator Ali Ndume moved that the life sentence should be upgraded to the death penalty.

During a clause-by-clause consideration of the Bill, Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin, who presided over the session, put the amendment on the death penalty to a voice vote and ruled that the “ayes” had it.

But Senator Adams Oshiomhole objected to the ruling, saying that the “nays” had it.

He argued that matters of life and death should not be treated hurriedly, but Barau said it was too late, as he failed to call for division immediately after his ruling.

The bill was subsequently read for the third time and passed by the Senate.