2025 ICSC, A Significant Event In Our Calendar, Defining Moment In Our Ongoing Journey To Reposition Nigerian Civil Service.... HOCSF

"African Public Service Day was adopted at the 1994 Pan-African Conference of Ministers in Tangier, Morocco. It is celebrated across the continent on the 23rd of June to honour public service values, promote professional excellence, and showcase public sector innovation, in alignment with Agenda 2063 of the African Union." Didi Walson-Jack.

"Nigeria commemorates this day with a week-long series of events to celebrate achievements and stimulate forward-looking policy dialogue."

Nigeria's Head of Civil Service, Mrs Esther Didi WaIson-Jack has expressed appreciation to the media for their role in keeping the public informed about the Nigerian Civil Service. 

Mrs Didi WaIson-Jack who said the media is an integral part of the journey, stated that, "Your coverage helps ensure transparency and clarity regarding matters we must address from time to time". She stated.

The HOCSF made the appraisal during a press conference held to intimate the media on the up coming African Civil Service Day and the Nigerian Civil Service Week.

She expressed enthusiasm over the up coming Civil Service celebration which will take place from the 20th to Saturday, 28th June 2025.

Mrs Didi WaIson-Jack stated that the African Public Service Day is a Continental Legacy.

According to her, "African Public Service Day was adopted at the 1994 Pan-African Conference of Ministers in Tangier, Morocco. It is celebrated across the continent on the 23rd of June to honour public service values, promote professional excellence, and showcase public sector innovation, in alignment with Agenda 2063 of the African Union.

"Nigeria commemorates this day with a week-long series of events to celebrate achievements and stimulate forward-looking policy dialogue. 

"This year, we are incorporating the African Public Service Day into our Civil Service Week and taking the celebration to new heights.

She revealed that the events represent a defining moment in our ongoing journey to reposition the Nigerian Civil Service as a 21st-century engine for national development, regional and international leadership.

Outlining the activities lined up for the event, Mrs Didi WaIson-Jack revealed that, "The 2025 Civil Service Week, a significant event in our calendar, will feature a series of spiritually enriching, intellectually engaging, and socially rewarding events designed to celebrate excellence in public service, reflect on reforms, and promote a unified vision for a stronger Civil Service. 

"The programme line-up includes the commissioning of the remodelled Reception for the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, a Special Juma’at Prayer at the National Mosque, a Thanksgiving Service at the Family Worship Centre, Wuye, and a Study Tour of the Federal Civil Service and Abuja by State’s Heads of Civil Service. 

"A Welcome Cocktail for ICSC Speakers, Wellness Activities, and a Social Get-together for Civil Servants are some of the other activities. The meat of the Week would be the two-day International Civil Service Conference (ICSC). The week would be rounded off with a Rewards and Recognition Awards Ceremony

Speaking more about the conference, she disclosed that, "This transformative event, themed "Rejuvenate, Innovate & Accelerate!", will convene public service leaders, reformers, and stakeholders from across Africa and the world to share insights, promote innovation, and build stronger governance systems. It is a platform for change and progress.

Mrs Didi WaIson-Jack assured that by hosting the Conference, Nigeria reaffirms its leadership in shaping Africa's accountable, innovative, and citizen-responsive public service ecosystem.

During the question and answer session, she revealed that many digital reforms ongoing in the civil service which involves exposure to leadership and international trainings will promote the Nigeria civil service to a world class civil service.

The HOCSF also announced a bigger housing plan for civil servants, which she says is very big, but will keep it close to her chest until when the time is ripe.

"I cannot tell you how big but we are thinking big," she said.

The conference is expected to attract 5,000 delegates.

 

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