{"id":50657,"date":"2024-10-03T09:07:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T09:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=50657"},"modified":"2024-10-03T09:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T09:07:46","slug":"uzodimma-appoints-acting-head-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/03\/uzodimma-appoints-acting-head-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzodimma Appoints Acting Head of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma nominated the immediate past Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Special Duties, Mrs Chikodi Emenalom, as the new Head of Service for the State Civil Service.<\/p>\n<p>This is stated in a statement released by the governor&#8217;s Chief Press Secretary, Oguwuike Nwachukwu, and made available to journalists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmenalom, former Chairperson of the National Association of Women Journalists, Imo State; Member of the National Institute and Nigeria Union of Journalists, replaces Barr. Raymond Ucheoma who has retired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe acting Head of Service comes into her new office with experience gathered over the years from different ministries since joining the Imo State Civil Service in 1990 as an Information Officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA 1988 graduate of Linguistics from the old Imo State University, Okigwe, Emenalom was promoted to a Permanent Secretary in 2018 and has worked in the ministries of Information, Finance, Agriculture, Women Affairs, Special Duties as well as in the Government House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the 2020-2021 Coronavirus pandemic era, she was appointed as the Imo State Communicator for the World Bank-Assisted programme dealing with COVID-19 in the state,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The governor urged her to use her extensive service expertise to carry out her duties, noting that Emenalom&#8217;s appointment is effective immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma nominated the immediate past Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Special Duties, Mrs Chikodi Emenalom, as the new Head of Service for the State Civil Service. This is stated in a statement released by the governor&#8217;s Chief Press Secretary, Oguwuike Nwachukwu, and made available to journalists. \u201cEmenalom, former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":37189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50660,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50657\/revisions\/50660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}