The guv offered the charge on Wednesday at the 2026 Public Service Week and 2025 Merit Award Celebration held at the Professor Theophilus Ogunlesi Hall, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, where 57 exceptional officers and sports award winners were honoured.
Guv Makinde thanked employees for their assistance throughout the years, explaining his seven-and-a-half-year collaboration with the state labor force as an opportunity. He kept in mind that the Productivity Merit Award was presented to promote quality, devotion and healthy competitors in the general public service.
“Our administration began this award since we saw the requirement to motivate our civil and public servants to offer their finest. It has actually been a big honour and benefit to deal with you to execute our vision for Oyo State, from the Roadmap for Accelerated Development 2019-2023 till now,” he stated.
The guv applauded employees for their function in assisting his administration browse early obstacles and provide on its vision of leaving Oyo State much better than it satisfied it. He advised them to extend the exact same assistance to the next administration in the interest of the state’s ongoing advancement.
While congratulating the award receivers, Makinde charged them to stay dedicated to quality and to coach others, keeping in mind that the benefit for effort is more work.
He likewise motivated employees who were not acknowledged this year to stay thorough, revealing hope that the inbound administration would sustain the culture of gratifying quality in the general public service.
In his remarks, the Chairman of the occasion, Prof. Oyesoji Aremu of the Department of Counselling and Human Developmental Studies, University of Ibadan, explained Public Service Week as a duration of reflection, renewal and recommitment.
He advised civil servants to construct long-lasting traditions through impactful service, mentorship and institution-building.
Speaking, the Secretary to the State Government, Professor Musibau Babatunde, and the Chairman of the Oyo State Civil Service Commission, Alhaji Kamorudeen Aderibigbe, admired Governor Makinde for institutionalising merit-based recruitment and visits in the public service.
Previously, the Head of Service, Dr (Mrs) Adenike Fashina, mni, applauded the guv for sustaining the Merit Award effort and for his administration’s dedication to employees’ well-being through routine income payments, promo workouts, the resuscitation of the N25,000 wage award, and numerous capacity-building programs.
She likewise appealed for extra well-being interventions to alleviate transport and lodging obstacles dealing with employees, while prompting civil servants to reciprocate federal government assistance through devotion, stability and professionalism.
An overall of 57 officers from the junior, senior and management cadres got awards throughout different ministries, departments and firms. The Office of the Surveyor-General became one of the most Outstanding Agency, while Emmanuel Alayande University of Education was called one of the most Outstanding Institution of the Year 2025.
The occasion was gone to by the Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Barr. Bayo Lawal; previous Deputy Governor, Engr. Hamid Gbadamosi; the Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adebo Ogundoyin, represented by Hon. Sunkanmi Babalola; previous Speaker, Senator Monsurat Sunmonu; the Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Iyabo Yerima, represented by Justice R. B. Akintola; the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Bashorun Akinwole Akinwale; the instant previous Head of Service, Mrs Olubunmi Oni, mni; the Deputy Chief of Staff, Hon. Kazeem Adeniyi; the Senior Executive Assistant to the Governor on General Duties, Chief Bayo Lawal; commissioners, city government chairmen, irreversible secretaries, labour leaders and other dignitaries.
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