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Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede on Wednesday expressed satisfaction with the inaugural phase of the Computer-Based Test, CBT for civil servants.
The Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan, recently informed that 13,000 civil servants nationwide had been shortlisted for Confirmation Examination. The test, she said, would be computer-based, and conducted in partnership with JAMB.
Speaking to newsmen after monitoring the exercise at one of the CBT centres in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, prof. Oloyede noted that the test took place simultaneously across the 36 states of the country, including the FCT.
He said although there were few “inconveniences”, the first phase was largely successful.
“The digitalization process of the civil service in line with the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan has come to stay and it is going to be the basis for delivery of service in an efficient, cost-effective and revenue-generating manner,” he noted.
Representative of the HoS, Engr Faruk Yusuf, Permanent Secretary, Special Duties Office, OHCSF, noted that the computer-based test is an implementation of the digitalization and local content management of the civil service.
“As you know the Head of Civil Service is the one responsible for conducting confirmation examinations, which are compulsory before any public officer is confirmed into the service.
“All along, the process has been done manually, but to ensure this digitalization process for the very first time, we had to subject this particular important exercise to a digital form,” he added
He avowed that the civil service is now in an era “where knowledge and ability to use computers is going to be the driver in the civil service in particular and wider public service at large”.
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