Never knew all this quack agencies still existed... So the govt have been paying and maintaining all of this for how long


Investigations by The Nation unveil the full list of the 38
agencies recommended for scrapping by the Steven Oronsaye
Report and the 52 to be merged, including hitherto unknown
details, reports YUSUF ALLI. The Presidential Committee on the Rationalisation and Restructuring of
Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions, led by ex-Head of the
Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Steve Oronsaye, has recommended
the elevation of the Code of Conduct Tribunal to Anti-Corruption
Tribunal to try all graft cases. With this development, regular courts (where more than 55 cases are
stalled) will no longer try corruption-related matters. Also, the commission is seeking compulsory and free education from
primary school to Junior Secondary School for all school-age children in
the country. But the full list of agencies recommended for abolition also emerged
yesterday in Abuja . Top on the list are the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF),
Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), Petroleum
Equalisation Fund (PEF), Ajaokuta Steel Company and National Iron Ore
Mining Company (NIOMCO). These highlights are contained in a 110-page Executive Summary
submitted to the Office of the Vice-President, which was exclusively
obtained by The Nation. The document reads: “The Code of Conduct Tribunal should be renamed
Anti-Corruption Tribunal and upgraded to the status of a Court of
Superior Records with the responsibility for handling only corruption
cases from the proposed merger of EFCC, ICPC and the Code of Conduct
Bureau. “Extant anti-corruption laws should be repealed, while a new one is
enacted to accommodate the consolidation of EFCC, ICPC and the Code of
Conduct Bureau. “The establishment of strong departments among others, in the proposed
consolidated structure is desirable as they would handle the following
areas: (i) Prosecution; (ii) Investigation (iii) Prevention (Advocacy); and
(iv) Asset declaration/ forfeiture. “The Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) should be made
autonomous.” “Critical stakeholders, particularly the National Council on Education,
NCE should make tangible efforts to revamp the falling standard of
Education in Nigeria, including the establishment of appropriate
structures for the management of quality” “As education is on the concurrent list, state Governors should be engaged
via the National Economic Council of State to drive the process and
restore the standard of primary and secondary school Education “They should also enhance the quality of teachers and infrastructure of
primary schools. “The first nine years of a child’s education should be free and fully funded
by the Government. “Teaching should be professionalised, particularly at the primary
education level. “Fresh graduates of Colleges of Education should mandatorily undergo a
defined period of internship and be recertified at periodic intervals of
three years thereafter. “All practising teachers in primary and secondary schools and equivalent
should undergo in service training to enable them to obtain licenses to
continue to practice. “Teachers in privately owned primary and secondary schools should pass
a qualifying examination before they are recertified to practice. “Funds appropriated for the management and development of schools
should be allocated directly to respective schools, rather than being
warehoused at the Federal Ministry of Education, UBEC and SUBEB. “There is need for the restoration of a strong, aggressive, focused and
professionalised Inspectorate Division in the Federal Ministry of
Education to facilitate the improvement and maintenance of standards in
service delivery. “For the recommendations to have a meaningful impact, the Education
sector requires decisive and courageous leadership at every level of the
Educational chain for the surgical transformation of the sector. “The NUC-the apex body in the tertiary Education sub-sector should
subsume NBTE and NCCE to form a new agency known as the Tertiary
Education Commission (TEC).” The report dwelt extensively on some of the agencies to be abolished or
merged. Although Oronsaye Panel had recommended the abolition of 38 agencies,
merger of 52 and reversal of 14 to departments in ministries, a
comprehensive list of those to be abolished was not made known to the
public because a few ones mentioned (like EFCC, ICPC) generated
controversy. Some of those on the list are: the Petroleum Technology Development
Fund (PTDF), National Salaries and Wages Commission; Nigerian
Investment Promotion Commission; Infrastructure Concessionary and
Regulatory Commission; EFCC, ICPC, Code of Conduct Bureau; Fiscal
Responsibility Commission; National Board for Technical Education;
National Commission for Colleges of Education; Federal Character Commission; Gurara Water Management Authority (GWMA); Nigeria
Integrated Water Resources Management Commission (NIWRMC);
National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA); Commercial Law
Department; and Centre for Automotive Design and Development
(CADD). Others are: Standards Organisation of Nigeria; Consumer Protection
Council (CPC); National Orientation Agency (NOA); National Institute for
Cultural Orientation (NICO); Nigerian Institute for Hospitality and
Tourism Studies (NIHOTOUR); National Troupe and the National
Theatre; National Gallery of Arts; Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN);
Nigeria Leather Science Technology; National Research Institute for Chemical Technology (NARICT); National Biotechnology Development
Agency (NABDA); Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute
(NBRRI); FIIRO, NASENI, NCAM; National Rural Electrification Agency
(NREA); National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN). Also affected are the Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa
(DTCA); Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR); National
Economic Recovery Fund (NERFUND); National Oil Spill Detection and
Response Agency (NOSDRA); Nigerian Institute for Education Planners
and Administrators; National Metallurgical Development Centre Jos,
National Metallurgical Training Institute Onitsha, Nigerian Institute of Mining and Geosciences (NIMG) Jos; Nigerian Geological Survey;
National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency (NSRMEA); National
Productivity Centre; Nigerian Copyright Commission; NTA, FRCN, Voice
of Nigeria; National Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, Roll-Back
Malaria, Epidemiology and Surveillance, Occupational and Environmental
Health, Health Emergency Preparedness and Response The report added: “PTDF should be subsumed under the Nigerian
Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to ensure synergy
and establish a one stop shop for training and placement of competent
Nigerians in the oil and gas sector. “The enabling law of the PTDF should be repealed and the NCDMB law
amended to accommodate subsuming PTDF under NCDMB. “A management audit of the capacity programme of PTDF should be
conducted to ensure that the programme addresses the needs of the oil
and gas sector. “The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) should be abolished and its
enabling law repealed. The enabling law of the National Salaries, Income
and Wages Commission (NSIWC) should be repealed while its functions
are subsumed under the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal
Commission (RMAFC). “The enabling law of RMAFC should be amended to accommodate the
functions of FRC as well as those of NSIWC. “Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria
(SMEDAN) should be merged with the National Directorate of
Employment (NDE) to form one agency for synergy and greater efficiency
for the achievement of the ultimate goal of government with regard to
employment generation and wealth creation. “NDE and SMEDAN should be merged to form a single agency for job and
wealth creation. “The new Agency should be called the National Agency for job Creation
and Empowerment, NAJCE” “A holistic reorganisation of the NYSC should be carried out with a view
to refocusing the scheme to achieve its set goals and objectives” “The career progression for the staff of the NYSC would engender the
attainment of the highest position in the organisation. “The Federal Government should engage the state Governors to fulfill
their statutory responsibility in the provision of befitting orientation
camps for corps members in the respective states. “Urgent steps should be taken to restructure the scheme with a view to
developing a framework to cover critical areas of national socio economic
development to which corps members would be deployed for their
primary assignments. “The scheme should also focus skills training and acquisition for corps
members in areas other than their basic disciplines with a view to
empowering them after their service.”

How about ROAD SAFETY and VIO. POLICE and CIVIL DEFENCE. Etc wouldn't they b merged?

There are some of these agencies that i ve nt heard of b4. But in as much as he was able to identify so pivotal areas that need restructuring, i think some of the underlisted agencies shld be left to exist.

Only 38? Make them dig further abeg. We need all the useless entities done away with. Add to the list the commissions that have been set up for one reason or another, when there are already recognized Government institutions to handle the same cases.