Merged ministries round off process
Federal ministries whose merger were announced late last year are already rounding off the merging processes.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and that of Cooperation and Integration in Africa have finalised the processes of rolling into one.
“The two ministries are one and the same and we do not expect any problems melting into one,’’ a top source at the foreign affairs ministry told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
The source, however, declined to react to the implications of the merger on the jobs of the top echelon of the ministries especially the ministers, permanent secretaries and the directors.
It is feared that many in the directorate bracket might have to give way as the merger might cost them their jobs.
The federal government in merging the ministries last year cited the need to minimise cost and avoid the duplication of functions.
With the merger, information and communication will become one, just like aviation and transport as well as works and housing, among others.