Comrade Abba Moro, Minister of Interior
The federal government has concluded arrangements to conduct a new recruitment exercise into the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), almost a year after the previously botched exercise led to the loss of several lives with many others injured.
The federal government has concluded arrangements to conduct a new recruitment exercise into the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), almost a year after the previously botched exercise led to the loss of several lives with many others injured.
This was confirmed on Monday in a statement by the Public Relations
Officer (PRO) of NIS, Chukwuemeka Obuah, after an advertorial in major
media outlets for that purpose.
Obuah noted: “The Presidential Committee to Assist in Immigration
Recruitment yesterday placed advertorial in some national dailies
requesting applications from suitable Nigerians for enlistment into the
NIS starting from February 9 to March 22. He noted that the
application is free and must be done online.
Recall that the stampede which occurred during the poorly planned NIS
aptitude test on March 15, 2014, led to the death of over 20
applicants, with several others sustaining various injuries.
Reports also revealed that there were only 4,000 vacancies that were to
be filled in NIS, while the Ministry of Interior approved the sale of
application scratch cards to over 520,000 citizens, amounting to over
$3,000,000 in revenue to the ministry, and yet it failed to provide
adequate provision for the conduct of standard recruitment aptitude
test.
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