Five directors in the Federal Civil Service have failed to scale through the second stage of the re-sit examination conducted with a view to appointing four new permanent secretaries.
Nine of them have however qualified for the final round of the examination scheduled to hold today (Friday).
According to a circular dated September 3, 2020, the nine directors passed the Information Communication Technology proficiency test held on Wednesday and will take part in an interactive session, which is the final round, on Friday (today).
The circular was signed by the Permanent Secretary, Career Management Office, Mahmuda Mamman, on behalf of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Folasade Yemi-Esan, and titled, ‘Re: Re-sit examination for the appointment of permanent secretaries in the Federal Civil Service’.
It read in part, “Following the conduct of the ICT proficiency test for the appointment of permanent secretaries in the Federal Civil Service on September 2, 2020, I am directed to invite the following nine shortlisted candidates to the interactive session with a broad-based panel of experts and practitioners.”
Four new permanent secretaries, one each from Kaduna, Kebbi, Rivers and Zamfara states, are expected to emerge among the nine finalists after today’s exercise.
Recall that the President Muhammadu Buhari approved that re-sit examination should be conducted for 23 directors in the Federal Civil Service with a view to appointing four among them as permanent secretaries.
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The directors are among those who took part in the last exercise that led to the emergence of 12 permanent secretaries on June 16, 2020.
The 12 permanent secretaries were appointed out of the 16 approved by the President, therefore leaving four vacancies.
The President had approved re-sit examination for directors who did not make the final list in June. They (directors) are from Kaduna, Kebbi, Rivers and Zamfara states.
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