In no distant future, Niger State’s civil service will soon become a model of efficient and quality service-delivery. That is if the proposed collaboration and mutual partnership the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) is seeking with the Niger State’s Government becomes a reality.
The Bureau’s Director General (DG), Mr. Dasuki Ibrahim Arabi, stated that BPSR is willing to partner Niger State in order to harness and develop the rich human resources in the State’s civil service.

In a dispatch to Governor Bello, Arabi, said the Bureau is tasked with the responsibility of operationalizing the National Strategy for Public Service Reforms (NSPSR), monitoring and evaluating the NSPSR, carrying out institutional studies for federal government agencies together with national perception survey, conducting Impact Assessment of government programmes and policies under the Economic Recovery and Growth Programme (ERGP), and developing policy briefs to guide government, among other core mandates.
He informed the Niger State’s Chief Executive, that BSPR is an agency of government charged with the responsibility of initiating action on reforms at the public service level; while also coordinating, Monitoring and evaluating the implementation of reforms in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).
“Meanwhile, in its bid to improve public service delivery despite lean budgetary allocations, the Bureau has recorded some landmark achievements. This include conducting a study on ‘waiting time’ to see a doctor in some selected government hospitals in Nigeria, and also organizing Induction Programme for CEOs, Chairmen/Members of Boards of Agencies, Parastatals, University Teaching Hospitals and Federal Medical Centres.
“We have also deployed the Self-Assessment Tool (SAT) in Universal Basic Education, Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Nigerian Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC), and Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), as well as the restructuring of the Niger Delta Development Commission, just to mention a few,” he said.