In a paper yours sincerely delivered at a symposium by the Council of Retired Federal Permanent Secretaries, (CORFEPS) to mark its maiden Annual Week held in Abuja last week, (March 5-7, 2024) I released some facts from my reporter’s notebook of 36 years.
In a paper yours sincerely delivered at a symposium by the Council of Retired Federal Permanent Secretaries, to mark its maiden Annual Week held in Abuja last week, I released some facts from my reporter’s notebook of 36 years.
There will be more details on the very newsworthy absence of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation who could be accused of ‘insubordination’, after all. Below are excerpts from my reflections as an outsider, which the veteran civil servants enjoyed.I would like to thank the leadership of the Council of Retired Federal Permanent Secretaries for the invitation to speak here. It is an honour and privilege I won’t forget or take for granted.
What is more, I covered very effectively the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation even from the military government days. I covered the office before Aliyu Mohammed occupied the office in Abuja. Even when Alhaji Gidado Idris received a copy of the 1999 draft Constitution from the late Justice Niki Tobi’s review Committee before it was decreed into law, I was there at the Federal Secretariat.
It was the great expectation that “a man you can trust” Obasanjo was returning to office that made the media to scramble for me to head their Abuja bureau because of my background as the “Mayor of Abuja”.
Lest I forget, I was also involved in covering the bureaucracy of this our National Assembly even before inauguration in June 1999. I had met Alhaji Ibrahim Salim at the International Conference Centre where the National Assembly Liaison Office relocated to, 1997/8- 1998/1999, respectively: two awards back to back with cover on Abuja…Before flagging, please keep in mind that Disqus does not moderate communities.
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