Ugwuanyi Reshuffles Cabinet, Sacks Three Commissioners

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, has effected a  cabinet reshuffle  by sacking  three Commissioners.
The three Commissioners affected in the exercise include Godwin Udeuhele (Commissioner for Information), Charles Ndukwe (Commissioner for Youth and Sports), and Barrister Smart Ogbe (Commissioner for Inter-Governmental Affairs).
The two new Commissioners sworn-in during the meeting of the State Executive Council include Ogbuagu Anikwe, who now takes charge of Information and Joseph Udedi, who was deployed to the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
The changes came as a first step in the move by Governor Ugwuanyi to reinforce his cabinet in order to further enhance effective delivery of good governance to the people of Enugu State.
The Tide reports that  the new information  commissioner is a veteran journalist and public communications strategist, and  joined the State Executive Council from BusinessDay Newspaper where he was serving as chairman of Editorial Board of the outfit.
Anikwe,who had over the past decades cut his teeth in the journalism profession was News Editor at The Guardian and later Editor of Daily Times of Nigeria.
Having honed his skills in public communications over the years, he had also worked as World Bank consultant for the Federal Inland Revenue and a number of state governments.
Anikwe was also the spokesman for the Federal Government’s Committee on Power Sector Reforms, working with the Presidential Taskforce on Power and the Federal Ministry of Power.