The Bauchi State Civil Service Commission has retired 653 workers on mandatory grounds in 2025, with an additional 61 others voluntarily exiting the service.
The Commission’s Information Officer, Saleh Umar, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, describing the year as one of remarkable achievements in personnel management.
Umar revealed that the Commission processed over 3,000 cases covering promotions, conversions, upgrading, transfers of service, dismissals, terminations, and both voluntary and mandatory retirements during the period under review.
He said the cases were handled across 28 activities conducted in 91 sittings of the Commission throughout the year.
Breaking down the figures, the information officer stated that 1,178 officers across various cadres earned promotions to their next grade levels, while 493 officers were converted to different cadres within the state service.
“653 officers were mandatorily retired, 61 voluntarily retired, three officers were dismissed, and one officer’s appointment was terminated over offences committed in the course of duty,” the statement read.
Umar further disclosed that the Commission cleared over 3,500 backlog cases of promotions and other routine matters, effectively decongesting pending submissions from various ministries, departments and agencies.
He noted that the exercise had positioned the Commission to commence its 2026 activities on a clean slate, free from inherited backlogs.