Over 13,000 FCT Civil Servants Begin Promotion Exercise Today
The Federal Capital Territory Administration and the Federal Capital Development Authority have kicked off a ten-day promotion exercise for more than 13,000 civil servants across 150 cadres and grades, starting Wednesday, July 1, 2026. The exercise was approved by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike as part of what the administration has framed under President Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda. Engr. Emeka Ezeh, chairman of the FCT Civil Service Commission, made the announcement on Wednesday. The scale here is worth pausing on. Thirteen thousand civil servants across 150 cadres is not a routine administrative shuffle. It is one of the larger promotion exercises in recent FCT history, and the ten-day window to process that volume through a Computer-Based Testing format tells you the commission has had to think carefully about logistics. The official statement confirmed the timeline and scope: "The exercise is expected to commence on July 1, 2026 for a period of ten days." Wike also direct...
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