Department of Establishments, Uyo

 Staff Strength: 139

 Responsibilities:

-             Policy formulation and interpretation within the State Civil Service in respect of rule and regulations;

-              Providing Management Services in the State Civil Service;

-              Issuing of circulars on changing government policies on service

         matters;

-             Application and interpretation of rules, regulations and Establishment

        Circulars;

-        Monitoring of Personnel Management Machineries of the service to

        provide guidance

-        Scheme of Service;

-             Evaluation and grading;

-             Formulation of pensionable and contract appointments in the State

        Civil Service;

-             Ratification of temporary appointments in the State Civil Services;

-             Co-ordinating industrial relations matters in the Civil Service;    

-             Handling of matters relating to Public Service Negotiating Council I,

        II and III in the State Civil Service;

-             Control and custody of records and confidential personal files of all

        the Staff in the Civil Services;

-             Verifying appointments and promotions of Civil Servants in the

        Service;

-              Retirement of Civil Servants in the State Civil Service;

-             Pensions and Gratuities Services to pensions Boards within the State

        Public Service;

-            Offering Services to Pensions Boards within the State Public Service;

-             Merging and condonation of break in service;

-              Issuing of notices on service matters of gazette publication

-            Administration of manpower development and Training in the State Civil Service;

-              Study Leaves with/without pay in the service;

-              Organizing Seminars, Workshops and Conferences in the Civil

         Service

-               Control and management of the State Civil Service Training Centre;

-          Administering and conduct of the Administrative and professional Officers Compulsory Examination, etc. in the Civil Service;

-         Liaising with the Federal and Foreign Government, International organizations for technical assistance awards;

-              Promotion of job satisfaction, efficiency and industrial harmony within the Civil Service;

-          Ascertaining and co-ordination of personnel needs of the various Ministry/Departments;

-               Publication and up-date of State Civil Service Staff List;

-               Organization and Methods;

-               Liaising with Federal Ministry of Labour for advice on labour/

         Industrial matters in accordance with labour news.

   Achievements of the Department

-                   Training of a total of two hundred and sixty (260) civil servants who recently passed out after successfully completing Assistant Executive Officer (General Duties) Course; Typist Grade I Course; and Computer Application Course mounted by the Civil Service training Centre of the Department of Establishments;

-                  Conducting of compulsory confirmation Examination for staff on Executive Officer cadres in the Publication  Service;

-               Represented Akwa Ibom State at the National Council on Establishment meetings at Jos and Sokoto;

-                 Represented Akwa Ibom at the National Joint Public Service Negotiating Council meeting in Markurdi, Benue State;

-                  Processing/approval of application for study Leave in favour of two hundred and twenty-nine Civil Servants;

-             Sponsored ten (10) Confidential Secretaries on Productivity Improvement Seminar in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in October, 2003;

-                    Sponsored four (4) Directors selected from different Ministries on a National Training Workshop in Lokoja, Kogi State;

-                    Sponsored five (5) Senior Staff selected from various Ministries on a Records Management Seminar at the Centre for Management Development (CMD) in Abuja in October, 2003;

 Current/On-going Projects   

-                     An Executive Officer (Account) six-months Course;

-                     An Executive Officer (Revenue)  six-months course;

-                     Computer Application Course;

-                    Holding of pre-examination Seminar for Administrative

           Professional Officers in the State Civil Service Preparatory to the main examination for these Officers held on 10th – 11th December, 2003;

-                  Two (2) Senior Staff are under-going a government sponsored Diploma in Public Administration course at the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), Lagos

Together we Shall Prosper

His Excellency, Barr. Godswill Obot Akpabio

The Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State

 It is with utmost gratitude to God and immeasurable joy that I stand before you today as your Executive Governor. On behalf of my wife, your first lady; my entire family, my deputy and his dear wife, I thank you, my people, for voting en masse for PDP in the general elections of April 14 and 21/26/2007. I salute your maturity, courage and peaceful disposition during and after the elections. I salute you for reposing your confidence in me right from the primaries of December 14, 2006 and bringing it to a climax on April 14, 2007. I assure you that your decision shall never be in vain. Today, we celebrate our self-worth as a people and our ability to strengthen democratic ideals by voting according to our conscience. We have taken the right step in our march towards a glorious future.

 

Fellow citizens, this is a new era signifying a renewal and symbolizing an end as well as a beginning. Above all, we are witnessing, not just the beginning of another chapter of history but beholding the actualization of God’s will in Akwa Ibom State. 

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