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REVEALED: CBN Recruited 909 Staff in 2 Years Without Advertising Vacancies

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recruited 909 staff in two years without advertising the vacancies, investigations have revealed.

 The whole affair is now a subject of investigation by the Federal Character Commission (FCC) to determine if due process was violated. The FCC is the body responsible for ensuring equity, fairness and balance in all employments into government establishments.
Investigations showed that some of the basic requirements for employment were not followed in the recruitment. For instance, the various positions to be filled by candidates were not advertised, and the figures also suggested that the exercise was lopsided in favour of certain sections of the country contrary to the provisions of the federal character.

Details of the recruitment, carried out between June 2014 and February 2015 showed that out of the 909 staff engaged, 213 of them are from the South-South region, CBN governor’s geo-political zone.

 Others are North Central, 178; South West, 176; South East,158; North West,104 and North East 80. The five executive positions (Assistant Directors) come from Edo, Abia, Anambra, Oyo and Benue states. About 411 others occupy senior positions from the rank of senior supervisors and principal managers.
A total of 491 staff were employed to fill junior positions over the period with the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) accounting for 11 slots. State by state breakdown of the beneficiaries showed that Delta State had the highest number with 78. Oyo, Imo and Edo States have 48, 42 and 41. Other states are Zamfara, 2; Yobe, 3 and Jigawa, 3.
Commenting on the situation, the Acting Chairman of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Dr. Shettima Bukar Abba, said that his Commission was investigating the recent recruitments at the CBN.
Speaking in his office in Abuja recently, Dr. Abba said he was investigating whether or not the CBN had followed due process in its recruitments, if it got the necessary approvals from the Commission before embarking on the recruitment and whether or not it got a waiver not to advertise the vacancies.

“In terms of lopsidedness, we have to look at it also. This may even lead us to go court if it happens that there is some marginalisation or lopsidedness in favour of certain states or certain areas,” he said.

 On whether or not the CBN got the nod of the Commission before embarking on the recruitments, the Acting DG said, “Since I came, they have not written anything to me, but I was made to clearly understand that they have some discussions, some approvals from the previous Chairman of the Commission.

“I have now asked them to let me see the nominal roll for the whole year and then those they intend to recruit and those that they have already recruited and the letter that gave them permission not to advertise.”

 He revealed that before he assumed office two months ago, the Commission operated under committees and that the CBN happens to be under the Financial Services Committee, which dealt directed with the CBN on the recruitments.

He said upon assuming office about two months ago, he invited the CBN’s Human resource director who told him that the CBN got a waiver not to advertise the vacancies to avoid a recurrence of the Immigration recruitment tragedy.

 “The human resource director came here and we said look, you people are recruiting. You have done the recruitment. She said yes that we have got approval and our recruitment is not an immediate recruitment that they are doing and that they have been doing it in stages for a certain period.”

On why the CBN refused to advertise its vacancies, Dr. Abba said, “The reason they gave me was that because of what happened in the Immigration. They don’t want to come out and fully advertise that they are going to recruit. That if they are doing it, it will create some form of pandemonium. So, they requested for a waiver not to advertise. But all other processes were followed. So, we are now investigating to find out how many they have recruited and what are the various positions that they have recruited.”

 He added: “I checked the files. We have not given them the certificate of compliance for the people they took. It means they are still in the process of documenting what they have taken prior to my coming.”
When contacted, the CBN’s acting Director of Corporate Communications, Mr Isaac Okorafor, said he needed time to respond to the issues raised on the recruitment.

Several text messages and calls were put through to his phone as reminders but he did not answer them. The last response he sent to our reporter at about 4:22pm yesterday read: “sorry, I’m in a meeting.”

A source at the CBN said the recruitment scandal had generated internal protest at the apex bank. The management has now redeployed the Director Human Resources that reportedly supervised the exercise, Mrs Chizoba Mojekwu to Training and Human Development Department.
The CBN had in an earlier comment on its recruitment policy stated : “All appointments shall be made on the basis of merit, through a fair and open selection process. The principles underlying the recruitment process are those of fairness, credibility, equal employment opportunities, merit and optimisation of career prospects for currently employed staff.”
In September last year, the bank issued a statement signed by the former director, Corporate Communications, Ibrahim Mu’azu denying any general recruitment in the bank .
Mu’azu emphasised that the Bank would not embark on general recruitment exercise without due process.

“Whenever the Bank is ready to do this it will be duly publicized through its website, and other media platforms available to it, without a fee,” the statement added.

 The last time the bank publicly recruited workers was in 2013, after it announced and advertised the exercise in the media.

A source said the bank recruited almost every month, since June 2014.

[DailyTrust]

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The Senator representing Anambra South in the National Assembly, Ifeanyi Ubah, is dead.

Ubah, who was the Chief Executive Officer of Capital Oil, was said to have died in a hotel in London, the United Kingdom, on Saturday.

He would have been 53 on September 3.

Senate spokesperson, Yemi Adaramodu, confirmed Ubah’s death to our correspondent on Saturday.

He said, “It’s confirmed, but I am sending an official statement soon.”

Ubah, who was re-elected into the 10th Senate under the Young Peoples Party, had last year defected to the All Progressive Congress.

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The impeachment followed the adoption of the report of the seven-man investigative panel set up by the Assembly to probe allegations of misconduct against Shaibu.

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JUST IN: Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun joins ancestors at 81

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The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun has joined his ancestors after a brief illness.

He joined his ancestors at the age of 81.

It was gathered that the late monarch was taken to the hospital Wednesday morning having stayed indoor throughout Tuesday on account of slight malaria fever, though, he was hail and hearty on Monday during which he personally received few guests that paid him congratulatory visits on his second year anniversary on that day.

Making this announcement was the Baba-Kekere Olubadan and his younger brother, Dr Kola Balogun in a statement by the Personal Assistant (Media) to the late monarch, Oladele Ogunsola.

According to the statement, Dr. Balogun disclosed that Oba Balogun would be buried at his Aliiwo ancestral home by 4.00pm on Friday according to Islamic rites just as he said that the State Governor Seyi Makinde, though already verbally informed, would be formally notified early in the morning.

The late Olubadan was the first most educated to have emerged as Ibadan monarch, a British trained P.hd holder, a former university lecturer, former member of management staff of Shell British Petroleum, former gubernatorial candidate of the defunct Nigeria People’s Party, NPP, former Senator and a successful business man.

His last official outing was the Olubadan Advisory Council’s meeting which he presided over last Saturday where the decision to derobed Mogaji Akinsola, Olawale Oladoja was taken.

He however, on Tuesday instructed the Ekerin Olubadan, Oba Hamidu Ajibade to midwife a small committee to deliberate on last Friday’s decision on what should be the position of Ibadan Zone in the proposed newly reconstituted Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs.

The decision of the small committee was earlier on Thursday ratified by the Olubadan Advisory Council at a meeting presided over by Otun Olubadan and the former governor of Oyo State, High Chief Rashidi Ladoja and was to be taken to the late Oba Balogun for his signature Friday morning so as to meet the deadline for submission to the state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters later in the day.

The late Olubadan is survived by wives, children and grandchildren.

Announcing the passage of the monarch, Governor Makinde, in a statement, stated that Olubadan, who joined his ancestors late Thursday evening at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, described him as an epitome of royal excellence and a great achiever, who made great marks on Ibadanland in just a little over two years of his reign.

He expressed his condolences to the Olubadan-in-Council, the Oyo State Traditional Council and the people of Ibadanland and Oyo State, praying to God to grant repose to the soul of the deceased monarch.

Makinde said: “With total submission to the will of God, I announce the passing unto glory of our father, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Dr. Mohood Lekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II, the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland.

“A mighty Iroko has fallen; Oba Dr. Balogun has joined the ancestors.

“In Kabiyesi, Ibadanland had a cosmopolitan and well-experienced Olubadan, who made indelible marks on the sands of history and achieved greatly within a short while.

“On behalf of the Government and good People of Oyo State, I condole with the immediate family of the Oba Dr. Balogun, the Olubadan-in-Council, the Oyo State Traditional Council and the people of Ibadanland.

“It is my prayer that God grants repose to the soul of our late monarch.”

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