NewsNigeriaPoliticsPlateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang fires five commissioners

The Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang has sacked five commissioners in a minor cabinet reshuffle.

This is contained in a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Architect Samuel Jatau, and made available to newsmen.

The affected cabinet members are Commissioner for Budget and Planning Chrysanthus Dawam, Commissioner for Culture and Tourism Jamila Tukur, Youths and Sports Noel Nkup, Commissioner for Science and Technology Obed Goselle, and Commerce and Industries Sule Haruna.

The statement explained that the Governor has nominated five people as commissioner nominees to replace those sacked.

The nominees include former first female deputy speaker in the state assembly, Joy Ramnap; Sunday Alex; and Syvanus Dongtoe. Cornelius Doeyok and Nicolas Bamnong.

The Governor, therefore, extended his warm greetings to the sacked commissioners for serving the state and wished them success in their future endeavours.

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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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