President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday announced the mass retirement of Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Civil Service.
As first exclusively reported by The Eagle Online, the retirement followed the appointment of the new Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita.
In the civil service order, Oyo-Ita was the number 25 when she was appointed as the HOS.
Announcing the retirement to the Permanent Secretaries on Tuesday was President Buhari during a meeting with them at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The retirement is also coming ahead of the inauguration of Ministers on Wednesday as also exclusively reported by The Eagle Online.
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Nigeria's former military ruler and opposition party All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari meets with U.S Secretary of State John Kerry at the U.S. consulate house in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. In a rare high-level visit to Africa's most populous country, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday urged Nigeria's leading presidential candidates to refrain from fomenting violence after next month's vote, and he condemned savage attacks by Boko Haram, an al-Qaida-linked insurgency. (AP Photo/Akintunde Akinleye, Pool)