Posted on: 11:42 Wed, 10 Feb 2016



The Federal Government has ordered civil
servants in the country to develop computer
skills as it intends to switch from ‘ biro-to-paper ’
examinations to computer-based exams for
onward promotions and advancement in the
civil service.

Head of the Civil Service of the Federation
(HoS), Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita gave the order in
an interview with journalists in Abuja shortly
after she rewarded 12 civil servants for their
punctuality and commitment to work.

Oyo-Ita, who gave commendation letters and a
computer each to the 12 workers, explained
that the computer reward was deliberate to
drive home the call for a digitalised civil
servant.

She added that any federal civil servant who
failed to sharpen his or her skill in computer
would not partake in the computer-based
promotion examinations.

The HoS equally charged civil servants to be
abreast of latest developments in Information,
Technology and Communication (ICT) for office
holders.

“Computer has become an indispensable tool for
individual and national empowerment,
improvement, development and actualization of
service,’ ’ she noted.