Oyo Govt To Conduct Computer-Based Exam for 15,000 Candidates As CBT Test Holds In Two Centres

IBADAN, OYO STATE, NIGERIA – The Oyo State Government has announced plans to conduct a Computer-Based Test (CBT) for approximately 15,000 candidates as part of its recruitment exercise into various cadres within the civil service.

In a statement e-signed by Prince Dotun Oyelade, the Commissioner for Information and Orientation and shared with StarTrend Int’l magazine and its online platform, the Chairman of the Oyo State Civil Service Commission, Alhaji Kamoru Abiodun Aderibigbe, revealed the details of the initiative on Friday, November 22, 2024, during a briefing at his office in Ibadan.

Alhaji Aderibigbe further disclosed that the computer-based examinations will take place between Monday, November 25, 2024, and Thursday, November 28, 2024, across two designated centers.

He said approval was given by Governor Seyi Makinde for about Nine Hundred (900) Officers to be recruited into over 60 Cadres across MDAs in the Mainstream of the Civil Service.

Speaking further, the Chairman said out of Twenty-Two Thousand, Two Hundred and Thirty-Five (22,235) applications received by the Commission, Fifteen thousand were qualified to sit for the CBT.

Aderibigbe said the recruitment is unprecedented in the history of Oyo State, as there has never been a time in the last two decades when such recruitment was done, as it has always been on cadre basis.

“For instance, the present administration had recruited 60 Environmental Health personnel in 2020, 692 Education Officers, 30 State Counsel in the same year, while 19 officers were recently recruited for the Ministry of Lands.

“As for the ongoing process, 22,235 applications were successfully submitted into the State government job portal out of which roughly 15,000 which is about 67% were qualified for recruitment into the cadres for which they have applied in line with the scheme of service and the parameters stated in our Tribune advertisement of 7th October, 2024”, he said.

Consequently, Alhaji Aderibigbe said similar cadres have been grouped to sit at the same centre, stressing that applicants have been divided into two groups of examining for competence.

Those seeking employment as Education Officers, Environmental Health personnel, Social Welfare and Youth will sit CBT at the Arch. Bamidele Samson CBT Center, Opposite UCH, on Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th November, while others will sit for theirs at the Distance Learning CBT Center, Ajibode, Ibadan, on Thursday, November 28, 2024.

He said invitations are already being sent to successful applicants, advising applicants yet to get invitations, to visit the Oyo State Government portal and refresh if qualified by all the parameters stated in our publication.

Aderibigbe advised applicants to come to the examination centre at the indicated time on their individual invitation Slips, with a printed copy of their application form and invitation Slip.

While thanking Governor Seyi Makinde for the very rare opportunity to lift many youth out of poverty to prosperity with employment of thousands, Aderibigbe appealed to applicants to be good ambassadors of the State.