15 Dedicated Labour Ministry Staff Get Ministerial Service Awards

Fifteen staff of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment were yesterday rewarded with 2022 Ministerial Service Awards for their hard work and commitment to the service of the Federal Civil Service.

The ministerial service awards was designed by the Federal Civil Service to encourage excellent performance and inculcate competitive spirit among staff for positive reward system.

Some of the awardees include; Epaphras Itopa Sumaila, assistant trade testing officer, press and public relations office, Ndakoji Musa, assistant general-manager, inspection, Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Juliana Adebayo, director productivity and measurement standard, labour ministry and Dr Emmanuel Bamiduro director, planning, policy analysis, National Productivity Center (NPC).

Others are; Emory Ngozi, CEO , finance and account, labour ministry, Orji Nkiruka, principal inspector factories, occupational safety and health, labour ministry, among others.

Presenting the award yesterday in Abuja, minister of state for labour and employment, Festus Keyamo said the ministry will provide the enabling environment for competitive performance in rendering quality services to aspire staff to put in their best in the discharge of their duties.

He said, the ministry will continue to recognised the outstanding performance of officers who have tirelessly worked to help the ministry achieve its mandate in the course of the year, adding that the awardees have been able to discharge their duties under unfriendly and challenging environment with demonstrated zeal and passion in attending to their schedules.

“This is an opportunity to inform you all that enhanced performance for productivity must be encouraged and so this platform is to celebrate and recognize excellence in service delivery by some carefully selected officers of the ministry.

With the performance Management process in place, it will not be business as usual for unproductive civil servants. There are sanctions for incompetence,” he added.

Permanent secretary in the ministry, Kachollom Daju said the ministry had carefully and genuinely selected deserving officers through a credible process with inputs from all the departments under the ministry’s supervision constituted award committees to further strengthen a trust worthy process for selecting awardees.

She said the Ministerial Service Award was to celebrate some of the ministry’s staff and selected staff of the agencies who have exhibited exceptional commitment and dedication to service.

“The importance of performance management cannot be over emphasised as it will improve organisational performance, employee retention and loyalty, improve productivity thereby overcoming the barriers to communication, clear accountability, and cost advantages”, Daju added.