NASG redeploys staff of defunct newspaper to information ministry

Four years after it shut down the `Nigeria Newsday Newspapers’, the Nasarawa State Government announced on Wednesday that it had redeployed its staff to the ministry of information.

Abdulhamid Kwara, the Commissioner of Information, Culture and Tourism, who disclosed this to newsmen in Lafia, said that the step was to ensure that all the workers were accommodated and kept in service.

“The directive from the governor is that all the workers should be redeployed. He has said that no one should be disengaged,” Kwara said.

He said that the ministry had set up a committee which would assign responsibilities to the redeployed workers, based on their fields.

“Once the committee submit its reports, we will assign schedules of duties,” he said.

He said that officers, whose services were not needed in the information ministry, would be moved to the Office of the Head of the Civil Service, for redeployment to other ministries or agencies.

The commissioner identified those to stay in the ministry to include journalists, computer operators and technicians.

“Those in such categories will be useful because the ministry is planning to revamp the state printing press,” he said.

He hinted that staff of the accounts and administration departments, as well as drivers, would be sent to other offices because the ministry had enough hands in those areas.

Governor Umaru Al-Makura closed down the media outfit in March 2013.