President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday approved the immediate retirement of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, advisers, Comptroller-General of Customs from service with immediate effect.
A statement by Willie Bassey Director, Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation also said the sacked service Chiefs were replaced immediately.
Those appointed include Mallam Nuhu Ribadu National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. C.G Musa Chief of Defence Staff, Maj. T. A Lagbaja Chief of Army Staff, Rear Admirral E. A Ogalla Chief of Naval Staff, AVM H.B Abubakar Chief of Air Staff, DIG Kayode Egbetokun Acting Inspector-General of Police, Adeniyi Bashir Adewale as the Ag. Comptroller General of Customs and Maj. Gen. EPA Undiandeye Chief of Defense Intelligence.
The statement explained that the appointed Service Chiefs, the Inspector-General of Police and the Comptroller General of Customs are to act in their positions, pending their confirmation in accordance with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Other appointees approved by Mr President are:
1 Col. Adebisi Onasanya Brigade of Guards Commander
2 Lt. Col. Moshood Abiodun Yusuf 7 Guards Battalion, Asokoro, Abuja
3 Lt. Col. Auwalu Baba Inuwa 177, Guards Battalion, Keffi, Nasarawa State
4 Lt. Col. Mohammed J. Abdulkarim 102 Guards Battalion, Suleja, Niger
5 Lt. Col. Olumide A. Akingbesote 176 Guards Battalion, Gwagwalada, Abuja
In the same vein, the President has approved the appointments of
Also, Mr President approved the appointments of Military Officers in the Presidential Villa to include Maj. Isa Farouk Audu (N/14695) Commanding Officer State House Artillery, Capt. Kazeem Olalekan Sunmonu (N/16183) Second-in-Command, State House Artillery, Maj. Kamaru Koyejo Hamzat (N/14656) Commanding Officer, State House Military Intelligence, Maj. TS Adeola (N/12860) Commanding Officer, State House Armament and Lt. A. Aminu (N/18578) Second-in- Command, State House Armament.
Also appointed by Mr. President are two (2) additional Special Advisers, and two (2) Senior Assistants.
They are Hadiza Bala Usman Special Adviser, Policy Coordination and Hannatu Musa Musawa Special Adviser, Culture and Entertainment Economy, while Sen. Abdullahi Abubakar Gumel Senior Special Assistant , National Assembly Matters (Senate) and Hon. (Barr) Olarewaju Kunle Ibrahim Senior Special Assistant, National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives).
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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