About 1.2 million
applicants are presently competing to clinch 1,112 job openings to be filled by
the Nigeria Immigration Service.
According to report, the Service is recruiting
over 1,00 officers in its ongoing recruitment drive, according to its
Comptroller General, Muhammad Babandede.
Speaking in an
exclusive chat with Premium Times, 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:
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.
