Babachir Lawal or Boss Mustapha? Who is the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)? Well, we can’t really say. Your answer depends on the websites you’ve been visiting.

If you have been reading the ICIR, Mustapha would be the answer. But if you have been reading the official website of the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), you would say Lawal.

In what is a sad reminder of the shoddy information management in government quarters, the official OSGF website still shows Babachir Lawal as SGF — more than 24 hours after he was sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to the website, Lawal was appointed on August 27, 2015 as the 18th SGF since independence.

Lawal’s picture is displaced on the home page, with no information yet on Mustapha, appointed to replace Lawal with immediate effect.

The website was last updated in 2016.

Lawal was sacked on Monday afternoon. A statement issued by Femi Adesina, Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, said Buhari sacked him after studying the report of the investigative panel set up to probe allegations of corruption and abuse of office made against him.

The three-man committee was chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and its members were Abubakar Malami, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, and Babagana Monguno, National Security Adviser.

“President Muhammadu Buhari has studied the report of the panel headed by the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, which investigated allegations against the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir David Lawal,” Adesina stated.

“The President accepted the recommendation of the panel to terminate the appointment of Mr Lawal, and has appointed Mr as the new Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The appointment takes immediate effect.

Lawal was suspended following an allegation by the Senate ad-hoc committee on the North East that he awarded contracts worth hundreds of millions of naira to a company he owns.

The contract, according to the senate committee, was to “remove invasive plant species” from the Yobe State water channels.