Civil service should not remain a conventional administrative institution - Olaopa

The Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission, FCSC, Prof Tunji Olaopa, has said the civilian work indispensable reposition itself arsenic a strategical spouse successful nationalist improvement alternatively than stay a accepted administrative institution.

Olaopa made this known connected Wednesday astatine the 45th National Council and Annual Conference of the Civil Service Commissions of the Federation, holding successful Asaba, Delta State.

While unveiling a betterment docket aimed astatine transforming Nigeria’s civilian work into a professional, merit-driven, performance-oriented and technology-enabled instauration susceptible of supporting the country’s ambition of gathering a $1 trillion system by 2030, helium disclosed that the committee had established a much controlled and transparent service-wide and directorate-level promotion system, incorporating online accreditation and computer-based testing, CBT, to trim undue influence, manipulation and racketeering.

According to him, the committee introduced an online recruitment process for the archetypal clip successful astir 4 decades, deploying CBT to beforehand merit-based selection, amended transparency and marque recruitment much convenient, cost-effective and secure.

He said, “These initiatives are gradually changing nationalist perceptions of the commission, peculiarly its estimation for administrative corruption and compromised quality assets absorption practices.

“I admit that organization translation remains a enactment successful progress, and t...