Following the removal of the nation's Head of Civil Service, Danladi Kifasi, President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Winifred Oyo-Ita as a replacement.
Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita Ekanem
The immediate past Head of Service, Danladi Kifasi, has been replaced by Winifred Oyo-Ita.
Oyo-Ita Ekanem who hails from Adiabo community of Odukpani Local Council of Cross Rivers State, was born in April 1964. She was educated at the Queens College Yaba, graduated at the University of Lagos in 1984 with B.Sc Accounting and holds a Master’s degree from the Nasarawa State University
She was Director, Finance and Accounts at the Head of Civil Service of the Federation and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).
Before her appointment as the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology in April 2014, Oyo-Ita was a Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs.
There are reports that Danladi Kifasi's reomoval is a sign of looming crisis in the service which will unfold later.