- NIS warns against fake employment website
By Michael Olugbode
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has shortlisted 6,500 people for final employment screening.
Addressing a press conference on Friday in Abuja, the Commandant General (CG) of the Corps, Dr. Ahmed Audi, said that 5,000 people would be employed from the 6,500 shortlist.
Audi, who noted that about 1.5 million persons began the initial recruitment process in 2019, lamented that the COVID-19 pandemic was the reason the exercise was prolonged.
The CG, who was at the press conference with the Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Board, Hajiya Aisha Rufai, said: “We wish to inform all the prospective applicants that sat for the computer-based test that 6,500 candidates out of 53,116 have been shortlisted to attend the final screening of credentials and physical fitness verification and will be invited via SMS from 2nd to 25th of August 2021.
“Applicants are advised to check the application portal: http://cdfipb.careers from 20th of July, 2021, for their names, screening locations, guidelines for the recruitment exercise and print out their invitation slip without which they will not be allowed to participate in the screening exercise.”
Audu stated that for eligibility, the applicant should present academic qualifications, indigeneship certificate, birth certificate, professional certificates and other documents, adding that he/she would need to have specified chest and height measurement.
He however said those with k-legs, flat foot, gross malfunctioned teeth, hunchback, obesity, deformity, hearing impairment, speech impediment, body tattoos, eyesight defects and drug addiction stand disqualified.
He asked the successful applicants to appear at the zonal screening centres in all white T-shirt, short and canvass.
The CG disclosed that six centres have been chosen, with one for each of the region.
The centres are Kaduna (North-west), Bauchi (North-east), Nasarawa (North-central), Enugu (South-east), Abeokuta (South-west) and Benin (South-south).
He said the exercise, which commences on August 2, 2021, is free.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has alerted the public of an employment scam by some unscrupulous elements who have invited applicants to visit a fake website said to be established by the service.
The NIS, in a signed press release on Friday by its Public Relations Officer, Amos Okpu, an Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, asked members of the public to treat the website with a pinch of salt.
The press release read: “The attention of the Comptroller General of Immigration, CGI Muhammad Babandede MFR has been drawn to some online publications inviting unsuspecting job applicants to apply for some vacancies in the Service.
“In the said publications, applicants are required to visit a certain website indicated as http://immigrationrecruitment.org/?p=apply-online to apply for job vacancies in the Nigeria Immigration Service. Apart from the fact that this portal address is unconventional and thus fraudulent, the entire content of the publication is completely untrue.
“They did indicate therein that screening exercise for applicants is slated for the 19th July, 2021. This is not only false, deceptive but also a calculated attempt to defraud unsuspecting job seekers.”
Okpu, in the press release, stated that: “Consequently, the Comptroller General wishes to use this medium to advise members of the public to ignore the publication as the Service is currently not conducting any recruitment exercise.”
