Why we organized sport competition for 2024 Public Service Week — Committee Chair 

The Chairman, Planning Committee for the 2024 Public Service Week, Mrs. Christiana Abioye, has disclosed that the committee organized Sport Competition For Ministries Department and Agencies to bring out the best from the state work force.

She stated this during the official opening of the sport competition to commence the 2024 Civil/Public Service Week at the Ikolaba Grammar School, Agodi GRA, Ibadan.

Abioye said, “We are so blessed in Oyo State as all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and we are not dull in Oyo State, we are very smart, we need to Oil our engine, we need to exercise our body, when you exercise your body, your brain will be very shap, it will make our staff to discharge their duties as expected that is why we included sport competition as part of the weeklong programme which is the first of it kind.”

She added that the football competition game is not going to be a do or die affair, though at the end of the competition, the winner would be motivated.

She hinted further that it was a win -win game among the civil servants to mark the 2024 Public Service Week.

Abioye stated further that out of  17 MDA’s, 11 registered for the game for the first time the football competition was incorporated into the weeklong programme.

She then commended Governor Seyi Makinde for approving the 2024 Public Service Week, noting that the governor is a talk and do governor.

Also speaking at the football competition, the Sub-Committee Chairman who also doubles as the Permanent Secretary, Oyo State Local Government Pension Board, Mr. Muraina said the football competition among the MDA’S at the end of the game would produce a standard team for the State Civil Service that can stand to partake in Sport Competition across the country.

Muraina explained that the on-going

Public Service competition would produce the Civil Service team, (Best 11) that can face any football club in Nigeria, through the support of Governor Makinde and the state Head of Service, Mrs. Olubunmi Oni, mni.