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| Best staff receiving her award from the Permanent Secretary |
By Lois Otse Adams
The National Planning Arm of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, under the leadership of Honourable Minister for State, Prince Clem Agba, joined the Federation’s Head of Service, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan to celebrate its outstanding staff, in commemoration of the annual Civil Service Week.
In line with the public service rules, the Ministry marked the event, following directives from the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, at the Budget and National Planning Building in Abuja, today, 17th June, 2022.
The Director, Administration, Omotayo Adeyemi who gave a brief background on African Civil Service Day Celebration, explained that the week is used to acknowledge performing staff and to create conducive environment for civil servants.
In his presentation, the representative of the Head of Service of the Federation, stated that there are several lined up activities to mark the civil service week. He urged Directors, Permanent Secretary and other top management staff of the Ministry to participate actively.
He further listed some of the activities to include; Civil Service Staff Welfare Scheme, the ground breaking of staff housing scheme, Sports activities, among others.
On his part, the guest speaker, J. Bishung in his paper on performance management system and implementation, said that performance management system is the approach to rate staff strength, maintaining that staff ought to be well trained and adequately enumerated. Bishung further discussed the importance of staff training as a tool in advancing and enhancing work system in government organizations.
The information Officer, Mrs. Udoh introduced the awardees with their citations, as presentation of awards and gifts was done afterwards.Top three staff bagged prizes such as; Generator, Deep Freezer, and Four Burner Cooker, in first, second and third place respectively.
In response, the awardees thanked the management for the honour done to them and pledged to perform their duties much better.
Earlier, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mrs. Olusola Idowu, gave her opening Remarks in an inspiring song, after the introduction of top management staff.
The event came to an end after participants cut the celebration cake, and group photograph taken as the Assistant Director, Staff Welfare, Mrs. Nwosu gave the vote of thanks.
