Chairman of the FCT Civil Service Commission, Emeka Ezeh, disclosed this in a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the Minister on Public Communications and Social Media, Mr Lere Olayinka, in Abuja on Sunday.

Ezeh said that the 1,659 confirmed workers were among the 2,281, who sat for the confirmation examination conducted by the FCT Civil Service Commission on February 28.

He explained that some of the workers who sat for the confirmation examination were employed as far back as 2016 and 2019.

According to him, 2,512 candidates were invited for the confirmation examination but only 2,281 turned up.

“A total of 224 officers were absent, fueling suspicion that they could be ghost workers.

“Some of the workers, who sat for the confirmation were employed as far back as 2016 and 2019, while others were employed shortly before Wike assumed office in August 2023.”

The chairman added that the commission had also concluded plans to conduct both the 2025 and 2026 promotions as approved by the minister.

“This is in line with President Bola Tinubu’s commitment to renew the hope of the FCTA workforce,” he said.

Ezeh advised the workers to visit the commission’s website, www.fctcsc.abj.gov.ng to check the status of their names.

Source: NAN

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The illicit drug consignment weighing 30.10 kilograms with a street value of N567 million was detected and seized by NDLEA operatives at the airport on Tuesday May 16.

This was swiftly followed by series of follow-up operations that led to the arrest of a freight agent, Nwobodo Chidiebere; a female suspect, Chioma Lucy Akuta and ultimately the drug lord behind the shipment, Charles Chinedu Ezeh, who was arrested at Sotel Suites, Amuwo Odofin, Lagos on Thursday, May 18.

Ezeh claims he is a businessman and deals in articles in Onitsha, Anambra State, but investigations revealed he lived with his wife and children in London until December 10, 2022 when he fled to Nigeria after his involvement in a drug related offence in the UK.

Though he claimed to have been living in hotels since his return to Nigeria last December, operatives were able to locate his mansion at No. 1 Hawawu Abikan Street, Lekki, on Friday, May 19, where a search was conducted and his travel and property documents among others were recovered.

Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Adamawa on Monday, May 15, arrested a 32-year-old notorious drug dealer, Prince Ikechukwu Uzoma, in Mubi area of the state with 1kg of skunk.

Ikechukwu had twice been arrested in the past, and convicted for the same offence.

He was in 2017 sentenced to six months imprisonment and in 2019 he was again sent to two years in jail.

In the same vein, a trans-border trafficker, Faisal Mohammed, 27, was on Wednesday, May 17, arrested in Mubi following the interception of a truck from Onitsha, Anambra State, where a total of 2,376 sachets of tramadol comprising 23,760 pills were found concealed in three blue rubber Jerrycans which were hidden underneath the body part of the trailer.

The suspect admitted the opioid was to be taken to Cameroon.

In Oyo State, two suspects: Osas Susan, 35, and Thomas Biodun, 23, were arrested at Igbon, Gambari in Ogbomoso North local government area with 2.13kg cannabis while Idris Muhammed, 55, was nabbed with 4,500 pills of tramadol when a commercial bus conveying him and other passengers was stopped and searched along Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

Similarly, Bulus Mikah, 63, was arrested at Kafanchan, Kaduna State with over 5kg opioids including tramadol, diazepam, rohypnol and exol-5, just as a total of 965kg cannabis was seized from Shehu Muhammadu Dandare, 25, at Maraban Jos, in Igabi local government area of the state.

While 552kg cannabis was recovered from a warehouse in a bush when operatives stormed and destroyed 1.5 hectares of cannabis farm in Uhodoua forest, Esan South East local government area, Edo State, 10 suspects were arrested with a total of 5.587kg cannabis sativa, 144.4grams of methamphetamine and 48, 260 capsules of tramadol in different parts of Onitsha, Anambra State on Friday, May 19.

In Kwara, two suspects – Mohammed Isa, 47 and Mohammed Haman, 36 – were arrested on Friday, May 19, along Ilorin/Lagos road in a commercial bus on their way to Maiduguri, Borno State with 6kg cannabis, 50grams of methamphetamine and 20 pieces of military camouflage caps and uniforms.

The same day, operatives in Jigawa State nabbed one Ibrahim Abdullahi, 53, with 120kg cannabis at Sara town in Gwaram local government area.

Not less than 628 bottles of new psychoactive substance, skuchies when operatives raided a drug joint at Idanre where four suspects were arrested.

They include Olamide Olusola, 26; Abiodun Tijjani, 21; Fatope Temidayo, 29; Agba Obi, 30 and Olafisoye Festus, 26.

In the same vein, a suspect, Kayode Hakeem, 22, was arrested at Hawan Dawaki, Kano with 293 blocks of cannabis weighing 211.6kg.

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), has commended the officers and men of MMIA command for their professionalism and speed with which they were able to track and arrest another drug kingpin, Ezeh Chinedu Charles.

He charged them and their colleagues in Adamawa, Oyo, Kaduna, Edo, Kwara, Jigawa, Ondo and Kano as well as those in other commands and formations across the country not to rest on their oars.

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