The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, has handed over the Dudgeting Department of the Ministry, to the newly appointed Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Professor Stephen Ocheni, who hails from Kogi State, North Central Nigeria.
While handing over to Ocheni, Ngige charged him to utilise his credibility as a renowned professional Accountant, to improve on the 2018 budgetary system of the Ministry.
Ngige said: “I am particularly pleased by the fact that you are an account professional with various degrees in accounting, and that will remove the load from me in budgeting. You will take charge of the 2018 budgeting, which we are about to start, so that our budgeting system will improve.
“I made it better when I came, you can push it to become best. I am optimistic that by God’s grace you will put in your best to uplift this Ministry and the Nigeria nation at large.”
He added: “it is our pleasure to welcome the new Minister of State into our fold. Ministry of Labour and Employment is one of the oldest Ministries in Nigeria, dating back to 1927, as Colonial Department. It is a challenging Ministry that has been manned by prominent Nigerians in the past, your deployment as a Minister of State for Labour and Employment, gives credence to your credibility as a renowned academic and astute bureaucrat.”
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