The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has given his approval for the removal and immediate replacement of the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Mohammed Fadah.
Africa Today News, New York reports that Fadah’s removal is coming barely six months after his appointment as the NYSC boss in May 2022.
When contacted by newsmen, the NYSC spokesman, Eddy Megwa, called on reporters to wait for an official statement that would be issued on Friday.
In another development, a director of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Dr. Monica Eimunjeze, has taken over as Acting Director-General of the agency.
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This is following the expiration of the tenure of Professor Mojisola Adeyeye as the DG of the agency.
A senior staff in the agency, who craved anonymity, confirmed this to our correspondent on Thursday evening.
The source said, ‘The most senior director, Monica, took over. But we have not had a meeting with her because it happened this evening.’
Efforts to reach the agency’s Resident Media Consultant, Sayo Akintola, on the development proved abortive as he did not take his calls or respond to the text message sent to him as of the time of filing this report.
Adeyeye was appointed the DG of NAFDAC on November 3, 2017, by President General Muhammadu Buhari.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government of Nigeria through the National Bureau of Statistics has revealed that no fewer than 130 million Nigerians are presently poor.
This revelation was made in its 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index Survey which was made public in Abuja on Thursday. According to the NBS said the figure represents 63 percent of the nation’s population.
It went on to add that the poverty index in the country at the moment is mostly experienced in rural areas especially in the north with women and children being the most affected.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the survey was carried out by the NBS, the National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).