The Federal Government has demanded that Federal Civil Servants on study leave show evidence of approval obtained from the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation.

This was made known in a memo addressed to all permanent secretaries and made available to our correspondent in Abuja on Friday.

The Federal Government had in August 2021 raised the alarm over civil servants applying for study leave with admission letters obtained from suspicious foreign universities.

This is as the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan, noted that the Federal Government has now put in place a mechanism for routine verification of workers in the service in other to ascertain their “true” location.

While addressing the new development alongside the need for physical verification, Yemi-Esan in the memo revealed that as part of the efforts to sustain the gains of the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System , it become imperative to emplace a mechanism for regular physical verification of officers in the service.