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L-R: Director, Directorate of Examinations and Evaluation, Nationwide Open College of Nigeria ,Professor Olugbenga Ojo; Chairman Federal Civil Service Fee, Prof.Tunji Olaopa and retired Everlasting Secretary, Olu Illesanmi throughout the maiden version of the Fee’s seminar in Abuja. | Credit score: The Fee.
The Federal Civil Service Fee is about to deploy computer-based assessments to conduct promotional examinations for workers as a part of its reformed plans.
The Chairman, FCSC, Prof. Tunji Olaopa, disclosed this on the maiden version of the fee’s month-to-month seminar sequence held in Abuja on Thursday.
Olaopa spoke on ‘The Institutional Framework and Process for the Conduct of Directorate Stage Train: Guaranteeing Integrity, Transparency and Accountability of Commonplace Practices.’
He famous, “The fee is transiting by means of the upcoming 2024 promotion train from analogue-rooted practices to computer-based assessments and the modernisation and digitisation of its core operations.
“The fee is due to this fact introducing the set up of on-line recruitment portal that’s accessible to all Nigerians, and which permits eligible candidates to pre-fill recruitment kind and replace identical every so often forward of commercial for recruitment into the federal service.
“Eligible candidates will, as well as, henceforth endure computer-based assessments and oral interviews with outcomes collated and launched real-time
“FCSC is, within the meantime, getting into into an outsourcing contract with the Nationwide Open College of Nigeria and JAMB as technical companions with a view to benefiting from their infrastructure, networks and expertise to allow on-line accreditation, CBT examinations and promotion interview for officers within the Federal service beginning with the Directorate-level officers.”
The chairman hoped that the reformed plan would strengthen the professionalism of the fee.
He acknowledged, “We’re nonetheless hopeful that in as far as all of the efforts are channelled to strengthen the professionalism of the federal paperwork to reinforce the potentials of the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President to game-change Nigeria’s nationwide transformation journey, thereby relieving the burdens and pains that the irreducible insurance policies of the Federal Authorities might have created, then we’re positive that we are going to not lack the oxygen required to maintain the implementation of the reform programmes on track.”
In his remarks, the Director of Examinations and Evaluation, Nationwide Open College of Nigeria, Prof. Olugbenga Ojo stated, “I’m right here to provide credence to the usage of CBT for conducting promotion exams for directorate stage.
“Now we have been right here earlier than to showcase what we are able to provide by showcasing our units. It’s to go with the efforts of the fee. Now we have informed them some great benefits of the CBT and what they should give us for us to perform successfully.”
