The House of Representatives has pledged to abide by due process in its task of reviewing the Steve Oronsaye Report which proposes the merger and scrapping of some Federal Government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, as a cost-cutting measure aimed at ensuring optimum service delivery. The Oronsaye Report, which targets effective and efficient federal civil service was put together in 2012 …

The House of Representatives Special Ad Hoc Committee on Restructuring of Government Agencies and Commission has commenced the process of reviewing the recommendations of the Steve Oronsanye Report. The report, aimed at reducing the cost of governance through merging, scrapping and relocation of some departments and agencies of government, was submitted to the Federal Government in 2012. The report on …

Ahead of the implementation of the Stephen Oronsaye report, the National President, Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), Tommy Etim has warned the Federal Government that job losses at this critical time in the country could lead to mass protests. Twelve years after it received the Oronsaye Report, the Federal Government, last Monday, approved the implementation of some …

Since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed office on 29th May, we have seen courageous leadership in action and hard decisions are being taken which were expected, except we want to deceive ourselves. Our economy is in bad shape and there are no easy answers on the way forward. There will be short-term pains but the long-term gains will be beneficial …

More often than not, government business in Nigeria is akin to monkey business. “The more you look is the less you see”; like the reggae artiste, Max Romeo once crooned. What appears legit elsewhere is patently taboo here. Governance here looks more like voodoo practice. What works elsewhere worsens our plight. And the fault, like Cassius told Brutus, is not …

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the advocacy for salary review in the Federal Public Service was acknowledged but the “worldwide problems of high inflation amidst general economic disruption” had to be considered. While receiving the Central Working Committee of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) at the State House, Abuja on Friday, the President explained that salary …