Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami has raised the alarm that some civil servants are leveraging on the procurement Act to perpetrate corruption.
Charges NIGCOMSAT to reposition or risk being scrapped
The minister who stressed the need to revive and reposition NIGCOMSAT for better performance, efficiency and effectiveness, recalled that the 2012 Orunsanye report recommended the merging and scrapping of 106 Federal government institutions. The who explained why the new Chief Executive Officer of NIGCOMSAT, Engr. Tukur Mohammed Lawal was picked from the private sector, saying, “If you want to change things positively in a government company, you have to bring someone from the industry because if you bring someone from the government, it will be business as usual.
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