Research on Humanities and Social Sciences www.iiste.org ISSN (Paper)2224-5766 ISSN (Online)2225-0484 (Online) Vol.4, No.26, 2014 166 Impact of Job Stress on the Job Performance of Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corps Members. *Ojo, Bamidele B.,**Ogunleye, Adedeji J. and **Olatunji, Samuel O. *Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps Office, Ekiti State Command , Afao Road, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. **Faculty of the Social Sciences Department of Psychology Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. E-mail: dr.ajogunleye@gmail.com ABSTRACT This study assessed the impact of job stress on job performance among workers of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC). Job stress was measured by the Job-Related Tension Index (JTI) developed by Kahn, Wolfe, Quinn, Snoek and Rosenthal (1964) and job performance was measured by the Role Based Performance Scale (RBPS) developed by Welbourne, Johnson and Erez (1998).The sample for the study consisted of 300 participants, comprising of 185 males and 115 females. Participants were selected using the convenience sampling method from the population of NSCDC workers. And results of the analyses of data collected indicated that job stress positively influenced job performance. Additionally, it was found that age, gender and years of experience neither independently not interactively influenced job performance. Discussion of results was in line with previous literature and it was recommended that organizations should foster functional stress to trigger moderate anxiety for higher performance while simultaneously avoiding over stressing workers to guide against redundancy and lower job performance. Keywords: Job stress, job performance, NSCDC workers, Ekiti State, Nigeria. The most discussed phenomenon in the media and political scene in Nigeria currently is the issue of insecurity. Boko haram insurgency, in particular, and the issues of vandalization of pipelines and other government infrastructures and projects occupies the front burner of discussions in Nigeria and has made security challenges quite daunting in Nigeria. The last decade witnessed an upsurge in the rate and severity of threat posed by this insurgency. The government, in a bid to curtail this menace, made efforts to establish security agencies to facilitate intelligence gathering and increase manpower for the fight against the insurgency in Nigeria. It is against this backdrop that the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corp (NSCDC) were established to provide manpower to curb the menace of insecurity in Nigeria. The NSCDC is often said to have a long past but a short history as its creation is rumoured to date back to May, 1967 during the Nigeria civil war; with operations within the then federal capital territory of Lagos. However, the security agency became statutorily established by law (Act No. 2) in 2003 and the amended Act 6 of 4th June 2007 further empowered the NSCDC. This law (Act 6 of 2007) empowers the corps to “maintain twenty four hours surveillance over infrastructures, sites and projects for the Federal, State and local Government”. The corps is also charged with the responsibility of assisting in the maintenance of peace and order and in the protection and rescuing of the civil population during periods of emergency. The corps also recommends to the minister, the registration of private guard companies, from time to time, inspect the premises of private guard companies, their training facilities and approve same if it is up to standard. They supervise and monitor the activities of all private guard companies and keep a register for that purpose, periodically organize workshop and training courses for private guard companies; and seal up any private guard company which operates without a valid license; maintain twenty-four hour surveillance over infrastructures; sites and projects for the Federal, State and Local Government. Other functions of the corps includes: enter and search any premises and seize any material suspected to have been used in vandalization or suspected process of vandalization, enter and search premises of any suspected illegal dealer in petroleum products or material used by power holding of Nigeria, postal services, Nigeria Telecommunication or for any other public utility or infrastructure. They also have power to arrest with or without a warrant, detain, investigate and institute legal proceedings by or in the name of the Attorney-general of the Federal Republic of Nigeria against any person who is reasonably suspected to have committed an offence under the 2007 Act 6 as amended for Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps. Additionally, the corps monitor, investigate and take steps to forestall any act of terrorism and report same to appropriate federal security agency; provide necessary warning for the civilian population from danger areas; provide and manage shelters for the civilian during periods of emergency; assist in the decontamination and in the taking of precautionary measures during any period of emergency; carry out rescue operations and control volatile situations; assist in the provision of emergency medical services including first aid, during any period of emergency; detect and demarcate any danger area; assist the federal and state fire service in fire-fighting operations; assist in the distribution of emergency supplies; provide assistance to resolve and maintain order in distressed areas in any period of emergency; assist in repairing indispensable public utilities during any period of emergency; provide intelligence information to the military on any matter relating to crime control generally,