15,000 Applicants Jostle For 900 Civil Service Jobs In Oyo

Oyo State government has said about 15,000 candidates would sit for its forthcoming computer-based test for recruitment into different cadres in the state civil service.

The chairman, Oyo State Civil Service Commission, Alhaji Kamoru Aderibigbe, who disclosed this in Ibadan, said the examination would hold from Monday, November 25 to Thursday, November 28.

He said approval was given by Governor Seyi Makinde for 900 officers to be recruited into over 60 cadres across MDAs in the mainstream of the civil service.

Aderigbigbe said out of 22,235 applications received by the commission, 15,000 were qualified to sit for the CBT.

Aderibigbe said the recruitment was 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 counsels 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 percent 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 October 7, 2024,” he said.