Trade Union Congress, TUC, has conferred its Most Outstanding Female Worker Award on the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan.
A statement made available on Monday by M. A. Ahmed, Director of Communications in the Head of Service, said, said the award was confered at the 2023 Edition of the Nigerian Workers Dinner/Awards held in Abuja over the weekend.
According to the President of the TUC, Comrade Festus Osifo, the Award was in recognition of Dr. Yemi-Esan’s antecedents and outstanding contributions towards the promotion of workers’ rights and improvement of the welfare of workers in Nigeria.
Osifo appreciated the HoS for her consistency in reinvigorating staff, as well as transforming the Service for enhanced national growth. He added that she has always been there for the Civil Servants and needed to be celebrated.
In a Keynote Address delivered by the Special Adviser to the President on Policy and Coordination, Dr. Habiba Lawal, she described Dr. Yemi – Esan, CFR as “the face of a New Civil Service and a quintessential Civil Servant.”
Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company, NNPC Ltd, Mallam Mele Kyari was also present at the event.