Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has reinstated Danlami Hayyo, Mandate Secretary for Education, and Michael Ango, Acting Executive Chairman of the FCT Internal Revenue Service (FCT-IRS).
In a statement issued on Wednesday by Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, the minister warned that acts of indiscipline will not be tolerated among officials of the FCTA and directed Hayyo and Ango to resume duty immediately.
It would be recalled that on December 5, the minister removed Ango from his position as acting chairman of FCT-IRS. Although no reason was given for his removal, Wike’s spokesman said the most senior official of the FCT-IRS was directed to immediately assume leadership of the agency.
Ango was appointed in an acting capacity by President Bola Tinubu in August 2024. Just last month, staff of the FCT-IRS held an event to celebrate his leadership and efforts to improve the agency.
On November 26, the FCT Minister suspended Hayyo. His suspension followed the circulation of a memo directing government schools in Abuja to close on November 28.
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The memo, signed by the Director of School Services, Aishatu Sani Alhassan, ordered all public senior secondary schools in the FCT to end academic activities immediately and dismiss students “in an orderly and safe manner.”
The FCT administration, however, said no such directive was approved. At the time, Wike’s spokesman stated that “no decision was taken at any level of the administration to close government schools in the Federal Capital Territory by November 28, 2025.”
