President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of a Head of Service, Permanent Secretaries in the nine Secretariats of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), and other members of the FCT Civil Service Commission.

This was made known in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the FCT Minister, Anthony Ogunleye.

The Minister, Nyesom Wike, had, in October 2023, announced that he had received the approval of the President for the establishment of the Civil Service Commission of the Federal Capital Territory.

Wike had also disclosed during a meeting with the directors of the FCTA and the Federal Capital Development Authority on March 4, 2024, that the Commission would appoint nine permanent secretaries to oversee the secretariats.

 The appointments take immediate effect, and the appointees will be sworn in on Monday, March 18, 2024.