The Borno state governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, Thursday promised to domesticate the federal government’s digital innovation programmes to enhance efficiency and reposition civil service operations in the state.
He made the promise while responding to the request by the Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack, during a courtesy visit at the Government House, Maiduguri.
He remarked that he has followed with keen interest the digital revolution and the new standard set in the civil service under her watch, stressing the need for continued professional development of civil servants, which for a very long period of time has not been effective.
“You enumerated a number of innovative programmes, especially on digitisation of the civil service, you talk about Service-Wise GPT and online compendium of federal government circulars and federal civil service academy for training of staff, and service welfare newsletters. I want to assure you that most of these items that you mentioned shall be domesticated at the state level, so that we can have effective vertical and horizontal coordination,” he announced.
The governor urged the Head of Service to uplift the standard of some renowned institutions under the federal civil service, especially the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON) and other institutions meant for training to harness their potentials, adding the state is willing to send some of its staff for training.