The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday conducted recruitment examinations for about 191,000 candidates that applied for jobs in the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
Speaking with journalists during the exercise in Abuja, the Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, Yakmut Alhassan Saleh, said the computer-based exam took place at the same time in 126 centres across the country.
He said: “All over the country, we have almost 190,000 candidates out of which 113,000 are for 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 and HND, NCE and OND and the third one for secondary school (leavers).”
The examination, according to him, was conducted by JAMB to ensure transparency and avoid rancour and confusion that trailed a similar exercise a few years ago.
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On the number of vacancies that are expected to be filled, the board’s secretary said 9,460 jobs are available for successful candidates.
“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.
“In both organisations we are recruiting 9,460. 5,000 for civil defence and 4,460 for immigration,” Yakmut said.
