Tag: by Tunde Olusunle

Record-Breaking Wike And Imperative For Mitigation Of Bad Belle, By Tunde Olusunle

ADEOLA YUSUF

Wednesday October 12, 2022, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, governor of the oil-and-gas-endowed Rivers State, wrote his name in the annals of Nigerian politics and governance. If indeed there was a Nigerian equivalent of the Guinness Book of Records, Wike’s appointment with one stroke of the pen, 28,000 Special Assistants, would qualify as a record-breaking entry. The previous day, Wike appointed 319 ward Liaison Officers, (WLOs) and 40 Local Government Area Liaison Officers, (LGALOs). Within a space of 24 hours therefore, Wike made 28,359 appointments, a milestone in the history of post-Fourth…

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Two Top Cops , One Happy Couple, by Tunde Olusunle

Tunde Olusunle

Perhaps the highlight of the recent elevation of senior police officers into higher ranks was the simultaneous promotion of a married couple to the rank of substantive police commissioner. Kehinde Patrick Longe, and his wife Yetunde, who were both deputy commissioners of police, moved up to the next rank, as contained in a press release from Police Service Commission (PSC) on Monday, December 20, 2021. Instructively, husband and wife were enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) on the same day; March 3, 1990, as cadet assistant superintendents of police…

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