The new Permanent Secretaries took the oath of office before the commencement of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by the President at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The new Permanent Secretaries are; Ndakayo-Aishetu Gogo; Adeoye Adeleye Ayodeji; Rimi Nura Abba; Bako Deborah Odoh; Omachi Raymond Omenka; Ahmed Dunoma Umar; Watti Tinuke; and Ella Nicholas Agbo

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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, stated this on Monday during a meeting with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, Daily Dates Nigeria reports.

Onyeama said the evacuation will be done following the approval of President Muhammadu Buhari.

With Ukraine still at war with Russia and a no-fly zone effective across the country, the evacuation is expected to take place from neighbouring countries.

Onyeama disclosed that the federal government will partner Air Peace and Max Air, to

Earlier on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said hundreds of Nigerians have been received in Poland, Hungary, and Romania by Nigerian embassies in those countries.

Nigerians have continued to flee Ukraine after Russia invaded the East European nation last week.

Talks commenced between both parties on Monday but fighting has continued in Ukrainian cities.

Many Nigerian students in Ukraine have called for help in leaving the conflict hotspot.

The nation’s embassy in Ukraine initially asked citizens to take responsibility for their own security but have since reversed course.

On Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said 130 Nigerians have been received by the country’s embassy in Romania.

In a statement, the ministry explained that it has also provided accommodation for them while arrangements are being made to take them back home.

“Also, officials at Budapest, Hungary have received and accommodated 74 Nigerians safely, where they are being documented for subsequent travel arrangements back to Nigeria,” the statement, signed by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Gabriel Aduda, read.

According to him, another batch of about 200 Nigerians is expected in Budapest later in the day. He also said 52 persons have been received in Warsaw, Poland. Of the number, 23 are being processed at the Polish Government Reception Point at Hala Kijowska.

“The camp is well organised with beds and beddings, food, heating, clothing, and medicals for evacuees,” the statement added.

“We assure Nigerians that all hands are on deck and arrangements are being put in place to effectively evacuate our citizens, in safety and dignity.”

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In a statement released by the Director Information, Willie Bassey, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, represented by the Permanent Secretary, Political and Economic Affairs Office, Mr. David Andrew Adejo, inaugurated a 15-man Committee on Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) in Abuja, Daily Dates Nigeria reports.

According to the SGF, the National Health Act (2014) has been empowered to increase the overall financing to the health sector and help improve access to primary health care services for Nigerians especially the poor and the vulnerable, particularly, women and children.

He stated that the Bureau for Public Service Reforms (BPSR), through engagements with critical stakeholders has developed a draft stakeholder coordination framework to help support an effective multi-stakeholder engagement toward a harmonized strategy for implementation of the Fund at national and sub-national levels.

While inaugurating the Committee, the SGF stated that the reform was a demonstration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to reform the health sector to ensure quality basic health care service to all Nigerians with emphasis on rural dwellers and the vulnerable in the society.

SGF further stated that despite the budgetary allocation for the operationalization of the BHCPF, many Nigerians have not benefitted from it since six years of its establishment emphasizing that the Joint Working Committee was constituted to provide an effective stakeholders coordination mechanism towards the actualization of the Fund.

Part of the Terms of Reference for the members of the Committee according to the SGF, is to bring stakeholders up to speed on the status of the Fund, to proffer recommendations as action plans to fast track progress of implementation, and to establish the need for the stakeholder coordination framework and other mechanisms to sustain momentum.

Speaking earlier, the Director-General of the Bureau for Public Service Reforms (BPSR), Mr. Dasuki Arabi in his welcome address, said that the purpose for establishing the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) was to bring relief to a good number of Nigerians who have never experienced proper basic healthcare, to reduce out of pocket expenses for health services in order to improve the quality of lives of the rural dwellers and the vulnerable people.

Mr. Arabi attributed the slow implementation of the Fund to gaps in the enabling Act and poor buy-in from the states and inter-agency rivalry amongst others. It is in a bid to revive the Fund that the BPSR with the support of development partners, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), and Non- Governmental Organisations (NGOs) undertook an analysis of the current situation of the Fund in order to uncover the underlying issues and seek a way forward for speedy implementation.

The Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) is the funding provision of the Federal Government- established under the National Health Act, 2014 (NHAct). The objective of the Act is to increase the overall financing to the health sector and help improve access to primary health care services for all Nigerians, especially the poor and the vulnerable with the overall goal of achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Nigeria.

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A document signed by Sunny Echocho, titled ‘Re; Selection exercise for the appointment of permanent secretaries in the federal civil service,’ and dated June 1, 2021, announced the result on behalf of the examination committee.

The document disclosed they scored below the 50 percent threshold necessary to advance to the final stage of the exercise.

The least score by any candidate in the examination was 33.5 percent while the highest was 68.5 percent.

Names of the candidates were, however, not indicated on the document as they were only identified by their service numbers.

The written examinations were held in Abuja on Monday for the retiring permanent secretaries from Ekiti, Enugu, Katsina, Lagos, and the Nasarawa States. The test to appraise their grasp of policy knowledge featured 46 substantive directors on Salary Grade Level 17.

The remaining 25 candidates who passed the examination, scoring 50 and above, qualified for the next stage of the selection process which was held Thursday. They were grilled on their ICT Proficiency, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint presentation.

The final stage of the selection process is an interactive session with a broad-based panel of experts and practitioners.

The candidates are competing to fill the vacancies of retired permanent secretaries and those retiring this year in five states of the federation.

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