Posted on: 04:34 Tue, 16 Feb 2016



The gale of disengagement of chief executives
of federal parastatals and agencies on Monday
afternoon spread to the National Agency for
Food Drug Administration and Control
(NAFDAC) with the ouster of its director-
general, Dr Paul Orhii, by President
Muhammadu Buhari.

A Federal government statement by the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation
(SGF), Babachir David Lawal, disclosed that
apart from Orhii, chief executive officers of 25
other such agencies were equally relieved of
their appointments.

Full text of the statement…

The President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has
approved the immediate disengagement of the
following Chief Executive Officers of
the underlisted Parastatals, Agencies and
Commissions.

2.​He has also approved that the most senior
officers in the Parastatals, Agencies and
Councils oversee the activities of
the organizations pending the appointment of
substantive Chief Executive Officers.

(i) Nigerian Television Authority (NTA)
(ii) Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN)
(iii) Voice of Nigeria (VON)
(iiii) News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
(v) National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)
(vi) Petroleum Technology Development Fund
(PTDF)
(vii) New Partnership for Africa’s Development
(NEPAD)
(viii) Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF)
(ix) Nigerian Content Development and
Monitoring Board(NCDMB)
(x) Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN)
(xi) Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund)
(xii) National Information Technology
Development Agency (NITDA)
(xiii) Petroleum Equalization Fund
(xiiii) Nigeria Railways Corporation (NRC)
(xv) Bureau of Public Procurements (BPP)
(xvi) Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE)
(xvii) Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory
Agency (PPPRA)
(xviii) Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON)
(xix) National Agency for Food and
Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC)
(xx) Nigeria Investment Promotion Council (NIPC)
(xxi) Bank of Industry (BoI)
(xxii) National Centre for Women Development
(NCWD)
(xxiii) National Orientation Agency (NOA)
(xxiiii) Industrial Training Fund (ITF)
(xxv) Nigerian Export-Import Bank
(xxvi) National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic In
Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP)

3.​Mr. President, however, thanked them for their
invaluable services to the Nation and wishes them
well in their future endeavours.

(Signed)

Engr. Babachir David Lawal

Secretary to the Government of the Federation.