Two foreigners, a Camerounian and a Beninese, were arrested on Monday during the recruitment examination into the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
In the examination conducted nationwide by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), no fewer than 190, 000 persons are jostling for the 9, 460 available vacancies in the two agencies.
The ministry of interior which announced the arrest in a tweet @nigimmigration said officers intercepted two non-Nigerians who attempted to participate in the computer-based examination (CbAT) for recruitment into the service.
“They are Camerounian and Beninore citizens. They have been interrogated, profiled, and referred to ACG zone A for further action.”
Meanwhile, the secretary of the civil defence, correctional, fire and immigration services board, Mr. Yakmut Alhassan Saleh said 113,000 persons took the examination for recruitment into the NSCDC while 78, 000 sought for employment in the NIS.
In both organisations, he said “we are recruiting 9,460; 5,000 for civil defence and 4,460 for immigration.
Saleh expressed delight at the seamless conduct of the recruitment examination.
He said the examination which took place at the same time in 126 centres in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja was conducted by JAMB to ensure transparency and avoid rancour and confusion that trailed a similar exercise a few years ago.
“We need to go through a transparent method of a recruitment exercise and it has to start from the word go.
“This is just one component of the exercise, after this, we go into physical and medical as well as psychometric exercise.
“We are into partnership with JAMB to ensure that every candidate is given a fair opportunity to prove that he has the merit and requirement that we need.
“All over the country, we have almost 190,000 candidates out of which 113,000 are Civil Defence, and for Immigration, we have 78,000 candidates across 126 centres in Nigeria.
“The examination is broken into three phases; we have the one for graduates, NCE and OND, and the third one for secondary school (leavers).
The batches (for the exam) are in three sessions to four sessions based on the number of candidates per centre. We have 9:00am, 11:00am and 1:00pm.”
He added that the results from the JAMB recruitment exam are released immediately after the exercise.
“The result is immediate but we are going to go into the second phase, immediately we get the results we will shortlist for physical and medical checkups before 15 December (2020) IPP and capturing will commence, and they will now go for six months training for specialisation.”
While commending JAMB for the orderliness witnessed in the conduct of the exam, he said the recruitment process was free with no candidates expecting to pay any money.
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