The Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, has revealed that the Federal Government has commenced the Pre-Promotion Training for Officers on Salary Grade Level 14.
According to her, the application used to conduct the mock assessment exam was developed by an officer in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation.
She maintained that the Office is committed to sustaining and strengthening the structures established to drive innovation in the Public Service in line with the policy thrust of the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021-2025 (FCSSIP25),
Yemi-Esan explained that the innovation competition was instituted in the year 2020 as part of efforts to reposition and reform the Public Service, adding that the overall objective of the competition is to develop new ideas/mechanism with a view to providing cheaper, quality and accessible service to the citizenry.
She made this known in her keynote address delivered during the 4th edition of the Annual Federal Civil Service Innovation Competition, organised by the Office on Monday.
The HoCSF affirmed that since the first edition in 2020, the Civil Service has been able to deploy several in-house solutions into the system for effective service delivery.
These according to her, include: “The Compro Computer Based Test (CBT) Application for the Conduct of Confirmation Exams in the Civil Service; Anonymous Reporting System (ARS), which is a whistle blowing application; and Office Space Management Solution, which has helped the Office to re-allocate and manage office spaces in the various phases of the Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja.”
On the application used to conduct the mock assessment exam, she said the web-based application is secure and has the feature of admitting all the prospective candidates on the portal and assigning unique user I.Ds to participants.
She added that it has the capacity to administer exam questions and score candidates in real-time.