By Stella Odueme
The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack has assured that the Federal Civil Service is working towards achieving digitalization and paperless service latest by 31st December, 2025.
She disclosed this on Wednesday at an interactive session with journalists during World Press Conference on the Commemoration of the 2025 African Public Service Day
and the Civil Service Week in Abuja.
Already, Mrs Walson-Jack said that eleven Ministries have so far become paperless in their operations, while others are at various levels of implementation.
“You know, at the beginning of this year, we realized that the strategy plan, the FC 25 ends this year precisely December 31 of this year. And we said to ourselves, we must accelerate the implementation of all the pillars of reform of that plan. And one of the key pillars of that plan is digitalization.
“And so we are saying to all the MDAs, you have to go paperless, and we are not saying what we are not doing or experiencing. Because I’m happy to let you know that even before I came on board, the Office of the head of the civil service of the Federation has been paperless.
“So what they are doing is to accelerate the digital transformation. And I’m happy to let you know that it was only last week that I was in the Federal Ministry of Health to launch their enterprise content management system, and they became the 11th ministry and Inter-Ministerial department to become paperless.” she stated.
She however noted that some of the ministries have funding challenge.
“And so the the question is, what happens to the others. Now we are pushing them. The other are at different levels of implementation, some have funding problems, and with that, we were able to get our partners to fund some of these ministries. And so the race to December 31 is on.
“The civil service, by the grace of God, and with our working very hard, will go paperless by December 31 2025,” she assured.
HCSF assures of federal civil service going paperless by December 2025
