Massive recruitment: Oyo Govt announces Computer-Based – Exam for 15,000 candidates

Stanley Ihedigbo

Oyo State Government is set to conduct a computer-based test for the recruitment of candidates into various cadres in the civil service.

Approximately 15,000 candidates are expected to sit for the test, marking a significant step in the state’s efforts to boost its workforce.

The Chairman, Oyo State Civil Service Commission, Alh. Kamoru Abiodun Aderibigbe disclosed in Ibadan at his office.

According to him, the examination will be held between Monday, November 25, 2024- to Thursday, November 28, 2024.

He said the approval was given by Governor Seyi Makinde for about 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 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 a cadre basis.

“For instance, the present administration had recruited 60 Environmental Health personnel in 2020, 692 Education Officers, and 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, Alh. Aderibigbe said similar cadres had been grouped to sit at the same center, 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, 28th November 2024.

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

Aderibigbe advised applicants to come to the examination centre at the indicated time on their invitation Slips, with 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 the employment of thousands, Aderibigbe appealed to applicants to be good ambassadors of the State.