The office of Surveyor General of the Federation (OSGOF) has conducted 2025 Promotion Examination for eligible junior officers on salary grade level 05 and below.
According to OSGOF, the exams are typically conducted by the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) and other relevant bodies like the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), and Public Service Institute of Nigeria (PSIN).
With the exams, staff assess the knowledge, skills, and abilities of civil servants to promote them to higher grade levels.
Surveyor General of the Federation (SGOF) Surv. Abudulganiyu Adeyemi Adebomehin while commenting on the conduct of the examination said “people will gain from the conduct of the examination to higher level and civil service examination is conducted within 2, 3, 4years respectively depending on the grade level , I thank the Head of Service of the Federation , Civil Service Commissions , Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and the rest for creating enabling environment for making it a reality.”
The Acting Director Human Resources Department Mr Oseni Abiodun while commenting on the successful conduct of the examinations said “ the examination was all encompassing , we have technical officers known as growing up surveyors , drivers and other civil servants, they were asked different questions . The General questions were compulsory for all candidates which were drawn from the civil service rule .“
He said “committees were formed to set questions, while personnels from the parent Ministry of OSGOF ie Housing and Urban Development, Head of Service of the Federation and Federal Civil Service Commission were involved in the successful conduct of the examination . I thank Surveyor General of the Federation for his support to make it a reality.”
Abiodun equally charged civil servants not to wait for promotion exams before studying.
“We should not wait for exams to come before we understand the rudiments of public service rule , we don’t need to wait for exams before we understand what the scheme of service is, there are books that guide us . So I advise we get acquainted to all these documents .“
One of the candidates who sat for the examinations, Mr Chidawa Awwal of General Service and Maintenance Unit of OSGOF thanked the Surveyor General of the Federation for giving staff the enabling environment to do their job and for facilitating the promotion examination as at the time due, adding that the questions from the examiners are not beyond the civil servants’ expectation.