About 1.2 million applicants are presently
competing to clinch 1,112 job openings to
be filled by the Nigeria Immigration Service,
Premium Times exclusively reports.
The paper had on Monday reported that the
Service is recruiting 1,112 officers in its
ongoing recruitment drive, according to its
Comptroller General, Muhammad Babandede.
Speaking in an exclusive chat with the news
house on Monday, the Immigration boss
said the service has received 1.2 million
applications through its portal.
The ongoing recruitment exercise, which
was announced in May 2017, is for three
cadres of Assistant Superintendent of
Immigration (II), Immigration Assistant (III)
and Assistant Inspector of Immigration.
The Immigration comptroller general said
the current recruitment drive is meant to fill
the shortfall of slots left after the service had
absorbed 888 of 2,000 officers engaged in
May 2015.
Mr. Babandede said the computerised
application system will prune down the
number of applicants based on unmet
criteria. He said all those who have not met
age or educational qualifications for the
applied posts will be automatically
disqualified by the system.
The recruitment exercise is the first since
2014 when a similar exercise was mired by
controversy following a stampede that killed
many applicants, including seven in Abuja.
capital.
