{"id":3743,"date":"2017-07-14T08:34:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2017-07-14T08:34:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:34:46","slug":"interior-ministry-re-organises-board-erases-b-schnd-dichotomy-in-para-military-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=3743","title":{"rendered":"Interior Ministry re-organises, Board erases B.sc\/HND dichotomy in para-military services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Engr Abubakar G. Magaji<\/strong>,\u00a0Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior.<br \/>\nThe Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Board (CDFIPB), at the end of its meeting held on Tuesday, 11th July 2017, under the chairmanship of the Honourable Minister of Interior, Lt Gen. (Rtd) Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau, approved the regularization of the dichotomy between holders of University degrees and Higher National Diploma (HND) in all the Services.<br \/>\nTo this end, the Board directed that all officers with HND to be upgraded to COMPASS 08, which is the salary Grade Level for holders of Degree certificates at entry point.<br \/>\nWhile the nomenclature for the HND holders will start with the Rank of Senior Inspector, the Degree holders are with the rank of Assistant Superintendent II.<br \/>\nThe Board also approved the commencement of the Year 2017 Promotion Exercise for all the Services with effect from 17th July, 2017.<br \/>\nIn order to boost internal security mechanism, the Board accordingly approved the establishment of the Institute of Domestic Security aimed at strengthening Inter-Agency cooperation, among other functions.<br \/>\nIn another development, the Federal Government has approved the re-organisation of the Nigeria Immigration Service in line with the provision of Immigration Act, which stipulates the establishment of Directorate of Immigration.<br \/>\nThe Directorates, each to be headed by Deputy Comptroller-General, are as follows: i. Human Resources<br \/>\ni. Human Resources Management<br \/>\nii. Finance and Accounts<br \/>\niii. Planning, Research and Statistics<br \/>\niv. Passport and Other Travel Documents<br \/>\nv. Investigation and Compliance<br \/>\nvi. Border Management<br \/>\nvii Migration<br \/>\nviii. Visa and Residency<br \/>\nThe Honourable Minister states that the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari places high premium on the welfare of its workforce and hopes that officers and men in the Services will reciprocate this gesture through improved performance and dedication to duty, in line with the Executive Order on the Ease of Doing Business, so as to revamp the economy.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Engr Abubakar G. Magaji,\u00a0Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior. The Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Board (CDFIPB), at the end of its meeting held on Tuesday, 11th July 2017, under the chairmanship of the Honourable Minister of Interior, Lt Gen. (Rtd) Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau, approved the regularization of the dichotomy between holders of University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}