{"id":72854,"date":"2025-08-12T11:52:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72854"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:52:45","slug":"fg-commences-appointment-of-permanent-secretaries-for-new-ministries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/12\/fg-commences-appointment-of-permanent-secretaries-for-new-ministries\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Commences Appointment of Permanent Secretaries for New Ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has commenced the appointment process for five new permanent secretaries, including three to serve in newly created ministries.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed in a memo from the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, signed by the Head of Service, Didi Walson-Jack.<\/p>\n<p>According to the memo, the vacancies include positions for Imo State and the Federal Capital Territory, as well as three new rotational zonal slots allocated to the North-Central, North-East, and South-East.<\/p>\n<p>The zones were chosen in alphabetical order to ensure equitable representation.<\/p>\n<p>The process is open to eligible directors on Grade Level 17 in the mainstream Federal Civil Service who are verified on the IPPIS portal, have served a minimum of two years as directors, and are not due for retirement on or before December 31, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants must provide proof of state of origin, excluding marriage-based claims for female civil servants and have no pending disciplinary cases.<\/p>\n<p>Serving permanent secretaries are to certify the eligibility and disciplinary status of candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Required documents, including confidential and personal files, curriculum vitae (hard and soft copies), and a structured candidate brief, must be submitted to the Career Management Office, Federal Secretariat, Abuja, by 4:00 p.m. (WAT), on August 12, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise is part of ongoing civil service reforms under President Bola Tinubu, who has appointed 26 permanent secretaries since taking office, eight in November 2023, another eight in June 2024, eight more in December 2024, and two in March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Federal Government has commenced the appointment process for five new permanent secretaries, including three to serve in newly created ministries. This was disclosed in a memo from the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, signed by the Head of Service, Didi Walson-Jack. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72856,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72854\/revisions\/72856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}