Nigeria Immigration Service 2015 Recruitment: Applicants To Use CBT For Examination

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said
Computer-Based Test (CBT) would be used to
conduct examinations for applicants of the 2015
recruitment into the service.

NSB Mr. Chukwuemeka Obua, the Public Relations
Officer of the service, said this in an interview with
the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on
Wednesday.

Obua said this was to prevent a reoccurrence of
the 2014 recruitment where a stampede was
recorded at various centres across the country
due to large crowd of applicants.

He said the CBT would also be used to conduct the
examination in order to test the computer literacy
level of applicants.

He said this was a basic requirement for
employment into the service.

"This is the process that will be adopted for the
recruitment in order to prevent the reoccurrence
of the past incident. Four or five computer centres
will be designated in each state of the federation.

"Applicants will be divided according to these
centres and they will be communicated online
individually the date they are required to sit for
the examination and the location in order to
prevent over-crowding in centres and cases of
non-applicants in attendance," he said.

The spokesman said the CBT was a global trend
accepted and used worldwide to conduct
examinations.

He said the device was chosen to prevent the
rigours associated with paper-based
examinations.

He said that applicants would not be required to
bring any writing materials; rather, they would
only need their password which was the
registration number to log into the computer,
answer the test and submit online.

Obua said after the test, successful applicants
would be contacted individually and asked to
report to designated immigration offices across
the country where they would be further
examined.

"At this stage, we will do the physical examination
to check the height, presence of any physical
disabilities and general state of health of
applicants to ensure that they are fit to carry out
their duties when employed.

"Documents of applicants will also be reviewed
during the examination after which successful
candidates will be contacted online informing them of their acceptance into the service," he said.