By Emmanuel Odozi in Abuja
Out of the total number of 915 Deputy Directors that sat for promotion examinations to the position of Directors, only 49 have scaled through and are promoted to become Directors.
Recall that 915 Deputy Directors, on August 12, 2025 sat for exams to clear the back log of promotion arrears in the first ever Computer Based Test, CBT for FCT civil servants.
Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social to the FCT Minister in a statement o Tuesday said the promoted 49 Deputy Directors will move up as Directors in various departments, moving from Grade Level 16 to 17.
He said the promotion was “consequent upon the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike’s approval of the release of the result of the first-ever Computer Based Promotion examination held at the National Open University Duste-Alhaji Study centre in Bwari Area Council, on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.”
He also explained that the promotion examination was done to clear the backlog of promotion arrears of 2023 to 2025, for workers on grade level 16.
Olayinka quoted the Chairman of the FCT Civil Service Commission, Emeka Eze, as saying that the promoted deputy directors will fill 49 of the 63 vacancies declared in various departments.
“Out of the 49 promoted, Education Officer Cadre had the highest of 20, followed by Accountant Cadre that had nine.
“While Civil Engineer, Social Welfare, Tourism, Fisheries, and Medical Officers Cadres had one vacancy and one eligible officer each, the Education Officer cadre had 820 eligible officers for 20 vacancies while Admin had 12 eligible officers for 10 vacancies,” he stated
The minister’s aide also said that to ensure transparency and for the exercise to be devoid of any form of pressure and influence, the FCT Minister directed the Civil Service Commission to adopt the most technology driven methodology in the conduct of the promotion examination.
“The Minister consequently approved the Civil Service Commission’s request to adopt Computer Based Test, CBT model for the conduct of the promotion exercise, and in order to make the examination completely CBT model complaint and reduce delays associated with the release of examination results, the commission’s Board of examiner set minimum of 60 percent as pass mark.
This is the first time results of promotion examinations have been released in such a short time, thereby beating pressure on the authority to influence the outcome.