The federal government has partnered with Google and Apolitical to launch the ‘Government AI Campus’, a global training initiative to equip Nigerian public servants with artificial intelligence (AI) skills. The programme, which was launched in Abuja on Thursday, is designed to help officials harness AI for governance and improved service delivery. Supported by Google and […]
BY ANDREW OROLUA A civil servant, Joshua Kadmi Luka, has asked the National Industrial Court Abuja to nullify a selection committee for the post of Accountant General of the Federation, AGoF, for deliberate exclusion of his name in their selection process. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack, had […]
…as HoSF issues one week ultimatum for affected staff to comply By Ukpono Ukpong The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has directed over 17,000 of its members allegedly delisted from the monthly payroll of the Federal Government, under the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) to remain calm as measures were […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, says every civil servant deserves to own a home; hence the need to reform the Nigerian Civil Service. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Friday, said the vice president spoke after receiving a briefing on the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021-2025 at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. […]
Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno has announced that his administration will not retrench any civil servant in spite of the current trying moments in the insurgency-wracked state. Zulum made this known on Saturday, in Maiduguri, at a luncheon organized to mark Democracy Day and his two years in office. He added that his administration would […]
Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa on Thursday disclosed that the anti-graft agency has recovered over N1 billion lodged in one bank account from a civil servant. The EFCC boss made this known while appearing before the Senate Committee on Finance investigating the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) […]
A civil servant, Ochu Paul, told an Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada, Abuja that a palace chief threatened to kill him over a land dispute. Paul gave the account on the resumed trial of the palace chief, Iliya Baza, on charges of criminal trespass and intimidation preferred against him and one Benjamin Enoch, a palace […]
A civil servant, Ochu Paul, told an Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada, Abuja that a palace chief threatened to kill him over a land dispute. Paul gave the account on the resumed trial of the palace chief, Iliya Baza, on charges of criminal trespass and intimidation preferred against him and one Benjamin Enoch, a palace […]
The Police, on Thursday, arraigned a 42-year-old civil servant, Doris Adaku, at a Life Camp Magistrates’ Court for alleged reckless driving and causing obstruction on the highway. READ ALSO: EFCC arrests civil servant in Kwara over alleged employment scam Adaku, of Kubwa Phase 4, Abuja, is standing trail on a three-count charge of causing obstruction […]
The Delta state Police Command has confirmed the killing of a Director in the Delta state Ministry of Works, Ugo Onochie, by yet to be identified gunmen. The command’s spokesperson, Onome Onovwakpoyeya, told newsmen on Monday in Asaba that the incident happened on Sunday in Illah community, Oshimili North Local Government Area of the state. […]
An Igbosere High Court has fixed February 7 for the adoption of final written addresses in a case of a N45 million property dispute involving a top Lagos state civil servant, Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyitolu. Director-General of the Lagos state Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Oke-Osanyitolu and his former lover, Ms. Olaide Ibraheem are in court over […]
A 40- year-old civil servant, Alani Taofeeq, on Friday appeared before an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding three men of N275,000 on the pretences of helping them to buy motorcycles. Taofeeq, who resides at No. 12, Soluade St., Ijeun Tuntun area of Abeokuta, is facing a two-count charge of fraud and stealing. The prosecutor, […]
The Kwara State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led government has threatened to sack any civil servant who refuses to vote for the party in the November 17, by-election in Ekiti/Irepodun/Isin/Oke -ero federal constituency of Kwara. Some of the civil servants who spoke on condition of anonymity said there had been several calls to civil servants […]
No doubt, the civil service is a veritable tool for the implementation of government programmes and policies. The civil servants are one of the very low paid employees in the workforce in the country especially with the dwindling economic fortune. This is more so at a time when the purchasing power of the naira is […]
The Bauchi state government said it was set to file a notice of appeal against court judgment that acquitted and discharged one, Kabiru Ahmed, a civil servant who was alleged to be involved in the embezzlement of eight million naira (N8m) million realized from sales of plate numbers. The accused, Ahmed Kabiru, a staff of […]
A 34-year-old civil servant, Segun Oluyara, on Tuesday appeared before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos over alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl, NAN reports. Oluyara, who resides at No. 36, Oduntan St., Ketu, Lagos, is facing a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse. The prosecutor, ASP Godwin Anyanwu told the court that the accused […]