Federal workers in Oyo State on Tuesday began activities marking the 2018 Public Service Week with a 10-kilometre endurance trek in Ibadan.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that federal civil servants in their hundreds in Ministries, Departments and Agencies took part in the exercise.
The two-hour trek took off from the Federal Secretariat at Ikolaba and passed through Agodi-NTA junction and the State Secretariat before heading back to the take-off point.
Among the participants were the staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission led by the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Mutiu Agboke, and officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service.
Others included officers of the Nigerian Prison Service, Federal Road Safety Commission and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps as well as staff of the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria, Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, National Population Commission and Bank of Industry.
Agboke urged public servants to show more interest in physical exercises to enhance their work performance.
He also said the programme gave INEC staff opportunity to sensitise the public on the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).
Agboke implored Nigerians who had yet to collect their PVCs to do so in order to participate in the 2019 general elections.
Some of the participants also said the trek gave them an opportunity to engage in physical exercise.
Mrs Hannah Eze, a staff of the Bank of Industry, commended the Forum of Heads of Federal Establishments that organised the programme. (NAN)
