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Published 5 June 2021
Fourteen of the 25 directors on Salary Grade Level 17 in the Federal Civil Service who on Thursday sat for the Information Communication Technology proficiency test as part of the process of appointing them as permanent secretaries failed the examination,
Saturday PUNCH reports.
With the development, only 11 candidates will take part in the final stage which is oral interview.
At the end of the oral interview scheduled for Monday, five of them will emerge permanent secretaries.
The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation announced the result of the test in a document dated June 3, 2021, a copy of which was obtained by our correspondent on Friday.
This means that 10 others failed to scale through in the quest to fill the permanent secretary vacancy in the five states of Ekiti, Katsina, Nasarawa, Enugu and Lagos.
The names of the officials were not indicated on the document but were identified by their service numbers.
They will, on Monday 7 June, meet for an interactive session with a broad-based panel of experts and practitioners who are expected to pick only five of the 11 directors.
The federal government had, in May, announced the shortlisting of 47 directors for the examination among the 51 candidates who earlier faced a panel but only 46 directors scaled to the next stage.
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By Olawale Ajimotokan
Twenty-one directors in the Federal Civil Service have failed the written examinations set for the appointment of the vacant permanent secretaries.
A document signed by Sunny Echocho, titled ‘Re; Selection exercise for the appointment of permanent secretaries in the federal civil service,’ and dated June 1, 2021, announced the result on behalf of the examination committee.
The document disclosed they scored below the 50 percent threshold necessary to advance to the final stage of the exercise.
The least score by any candidate in the examination was 33.5 per cent while the highest was 68.5 per cent.
Names of the candidates were, however, not indicated on the document as they were only identified by their service numbers.
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