FG stops conduct of Immigration recruitment exams in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa THE Federal Government has said that the aptitude test for recruitment into the Nigeria Immigration Service billed for Saturday, March 15, nationwide will not hold in volatile northern states. The states are: Borno, Yobe and Adamawa that have been hotbed of Boko Haram violent attacks. Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, who spoke with newsmen in Abuja on Thursday, said every necessary arrangement had been put in place for a hitch-free exercise. The Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prison Service Board that is handling the recruitment exercise earlier in a statement made available to journalists by the Chief Press Secretary to the Minister, Mr. Edwin Opara, announced the date for the examination. The statement said the recruitment examination for applicants who submitted online applications had been scheduled to hold on Saturday, March 15, 2014 at 7am in all the state capitals and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The statement further noted that due to the State of Emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, alternative arrangements had been made for candidates from those states to take their examination in other states. The statement specifically urged candidates from Borno State to go to Gombe, Gombe State for examination while Yobe candidates should go to Bauchi, Bauchi State and Adamawa to Jalingo, Taraba State respectively. “Candidates are expected to take the examination in their preferred states as earlier indicated using the application number as their examination number. Candidates are required to come along with their acknowledgement slip and clothing for physical exercise. “Candidates are advised to log on to the website at recruitment.cdfipb.gov.ng for full details on the exercise and contact state commands of Nigeria Immigration Service,” the statement added. But the Minister, who said he needed to have clarified air on some misgivings about the recruitment exercise said the Ministry of Interior has never asked any applicant to go back to his or her state of origin for the examination as being peddled in some quarters. Moro, said it was not the instruction of the Ministry of Interior, that every body should go to his or her state of origin to write this examination, saying “this would negate even our initial decision to go online to conduct this exercise to avoid the risk of long transportation and travels, to avoid the risk of spending too much on enlistment into the service”. He warned all applicants to be aware that they will only be admitted in centres that they have chosen to write the examination in the first place and that adequate arrangement has been made for security and effective conduct of the aptitude test. He insisted that the examination is fixed within the period in which procurement could take place and advised candidates to strictly abide by the instructions. He said: “This has become necessary because indications have shown that there are some level of distortion and misinformation that is going on the social media. “For the avoidance of doubt, we started this process some months back and having literally overcome some of the initial obstacles, the aptitude test for the enlistment of officers into the Nigerian Immigration Service will take place on Saturday in various centres across the country. People in their initial application have chosen centres that they prefer to write the examination. These are the centres where they will be taking the aptitude test. “They will present their relevant attestation to show their application and fulfilment of various requirement for the test and they will be admitted to sit for the test in their various centres of choice,” Moro said.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:18:39 +0000
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