By Emmanuel Obisue
As part of ongoing efforts to digitize activities and work processes in Nigeria’s Federal Civil Service, the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, OHCSF, has informed that it has concluded plans to conduct the 2022 Annual Public Service Confirmation Examination as a Computer-Based Test, CBT.
To this end, the OHCSF is collaborating with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to ensure the realisation of the transition from the manual method of conducting the examination to electronic.
A statement made available to Nigerian Pilot on Monday by M. A. Ahmed, Deputy Director, Communications, OHCSF, informed that the “Combined Confirmation/Promotion Examination, COMPRO, for Junior Staff and the Compulsory Confirmation Examination for Senior Staff are the two mandatory confirmation examinations in the Public Service, including the Police and Para-Military Agencies”.
“They are not an option, but a mandatory requirement.
“Since inception, the examinations have been conducted through manual processes across the 36 States of the Federation and the FCT. All newly recruited officers in the Federal Public Service are required to sit for and pass the examination as a pre-requisite for the confirmation of their appointments,” it added.
The statement added that the “2022 compulsory confirmation examination for senior officers will take place on Wednesday, 19th October, 2022, across the 36 States of the Federation and the FCT”.
“The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation will be utilising sixty-nine (69) CBT centers for the exercise, while about thirteen thousand (13,000) officers from the core Civil Service, the Nigeria Police, and other Para-military and specialized Agencies will take part in this year’s examinations. It is remarkable to note that the entire processes leading to the conduct of this confirmation examination were done electronically.
“In line with global best practices, as also reinforced by the COVID -19 pandemic, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation has maintained that the Federal Civil Service must be transformed leveraging on ICT in all its activities and processes. This is to ensure that such activities and processes become more efficient, cost-effective, and faster to deliver.
“The conduct of the COMPRO Examination as CBT, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) in the OHCSF, and the acceleration of training activities, Service wide, through the introduction of E-learning solutions are major giant strides being taken in this respect by the OHCSF,” part of the statement read.
