Abuja — Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Esther Didi Walson-Jack, has tasked public servants to embrace to begin to take IT and digitalisation very seriously because promotion test is computer based.

She made the appeal in Abuja while supervising the Combined Confirmation and Promotion Examination, commonly known as Compro, simultaneously held across the country.

Public servants from GL 7 upwards, some serving policemen and paramilitary officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps, (FRSC), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Nigeria Immigration Service and Customs numbering 13,933 wrote the promotion examination held simultaneously across the country.

The computer-based test was supervised by Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB).

Walson-Jack, who monitored the conduct of the test in two centres in Abuja, expressed satisfaction with the exercise.

About 2,573 of those candidates that wrote the test were from the FCT.

The head of service noted that the examination was computer-based because the federal Government was moving towards a digitalised public service, which is one of the pillars of the the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021-2025.

"You will recall that this exam used to be a written exam, but recently we made it computer based, and so it is expected that as we go along, it will encourage civil servants, public servants, to begin to take IT and digitalisation very seriously because the test is computer based and there will be need to be IT savvy to pass the test," she said.

She assured the Office would facilitate a lot of training on ICT, as such will help the workers as they go along with the CBT tests.

The Permanent Secretary Career Management Office, Fatima Mahmood, said the process was smooth despite a few technical glitches that was later addressed.