Ja'afaru emerges as new
number one man for NPS

President Muhammadu Buhari
According to the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, Mr Bassey
Akpanyung, the permanent secretary,
Ministry of Interior, signed a statement to
this effect, regarding the appointment of Mr
Ja’afaru as the new boss of the NPS.
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Prior to the appointment of the new number
one man of the prisons service, he was the
assistant controller general of prisons and
was serving at the NPS headquarters at
Abuja, the nation’s capital.
NAN further gathered that the new boss of
the NPS will take over from the former boss,
Dr Peter Ekpendu, whose years in service
came to an end on Tuesday, May 17.
In addition, the appointment of Ja’afar was
effective as from the same Tuesday, May 17
when Dr Ekpendu called it quit from the
NPS.
Earlier today, Tuesday, May 24, information
had it that President Muhammadu Buhari
approved the appointment of Mr Uka Tor Uja,
to oversee the affairs of the Nigerian
Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC) as
the new executive secretary.
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