By Sunny Onyekwere, 23 November 2025
No fewer than 8,000 Civil Servants in the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) will this week sit for promotion examinations.
The promotion examinations are scheduled to hold for five days, starting from Tuesday, November 25 to Saturday, November 29, 2025, at the National Open University Study Centre along Kubwa Road, Abuja.
Chairman of the FCT Civil Service Commission, Emeka Ezeh, said on Sunday that the over the civil servants cut across 165 cadres.
He said as part of staff motivation, the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, approved the request of the FCT Civil Service Commission to quickly conclude the 2024 promotion exercise of FCT/FCDA workers across all cadres.
He further stated that the promotion that will be conducted, using the computer-Based Test (CBT).
He added that this iniative will deepen the newly introduced digital platform for promotion examinations that was approved by the FCT Minister.
“Recall that the FCT under the leadership of Barr. Nyesom Wike blazed the trail as the first Commission in Nigeria to conduct its promotion by CBT.
“The Minister had in August 2025, approved the promotion of 49 directors, who were successful in the CBT examination conducted by the Commission”, he said.
