The new management of the Nigeria immigration Service on Tuesday in Abuja announced Deputy Comptroller Ekpedeme King as the new spokesperson for the Service.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that King is to take over from Assistant Comptroller, Chukuemeka Obua, who had been redeployed to the Lagos Command.
Until his deployment, King was the second-in-command at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
The posting is contained in a staff posting order vide NIS/ABJ/1027/VV/T111/562 dated September 2, 2015.
The new spokesperson told NAN, after a brief handover ceremony on Tuesday in Abuja, that the Public Relations Unit would be repositioned to enhance professionalism.
He thanked the outgoing PRO for all the support and charged other officers of the unit to work as a team in the course of their duty.
He also called on journalists and media organisations to support the new administration in its bid to reposition the NIS in line with the change agenda of the Federal Government.
President Muhammadu Buhari had, on August, 27, announced Mr. Martin Abeshi as the new Comptroller-General of the NIS following the suspension of the former NIS CG, Mr. David Parradang.N