The Federal Government has fired some civil servants with degrees from private tertiary institutions in Benin Republic and Togo, based on the inter-ministerial committee’s recommendation.
The Director of Information and Public Relations in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Segun Imohiosen, confirmed the development to newsmen on Wednesday, while also disclosing that the directive affected federal workers who graduated from the institutions from 2017 to date.
Although the exact number of affected civil servants could not be ascertained, it was gathered that the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (Cabinet Affairs) had issued a memo to all the Ministries, Departments, and Agencies to implement the order.