{"id":83173,"date":"2026-03-18T10:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=83173"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:13:53","slug":"alia-inaugurates-committee-to-restructure-benue-civil-service-mdas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/03\/18\/alia-inaugurates-committee-to-restructure-benue-civil-service-mdas\/","title":{"rendered":"Alia Inaugurates Committee to Restructure Benue Civil Service, MDAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samson Adeyanju<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Governor Hyacinth Iormem Alia has inaugurated a high-level committee to restructure the mandates and supervision of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the Benue State Civil Service.<\/p>\n<p>The inauguration, held on Tuesday at the Government House in Makurdi, is part of the administration\u2019s drive to restore efficiency and enhance service delivery across the state\u2019s public sector.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the ceremony, Alia charged the committee to undertake a comprehensive review of existing MDAs, including ministries, bureaus, commissions and government-owned companies, with a view to recommending appropriate alignments for effective supervision.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is chaired by the Deputy Governor, Sam Ode, and is mandated to also examine the roles of political appointees such as Special Advisers and Assistants, particularly in addressing overlapping functions within the system.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the task as critical, the governor urged members to approach the assignment with seriousness, noting that the initiative is aimed at restoring standard operational procedures, strengthening institutional values and improving personnel quality for optimal performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very serious assignment and I urge you to take it very seriously. It is a call to service,\u201d he said, assuring the committee of government support.<\/p>\n<p>Responding on behalf of the members, Bernard Hom expressed appreciation for the confidence reposed in them and pledged to carry out the assignment diligently.<\/p>\n<p>The committee, made up of selected indigenes of the state, is expected to submit its report within two months for government consideration, according to a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Tersoo Kula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samson Adeyanju Governor Hyacinth Iormem Alia has inaugurated a high-level committee to restructure the mandates and supervision of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the Benue State Civil Service. The inauguration, held on Tuesday at the Government House in Makurdi, is part of the administration\u2019s drive to restore efficiency and enhance service delivery across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":83174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83173","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83175,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83173\/revisions\/83175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}