191,000 jostle for 9,460 Immigration, NSCDC jobs as JAMB conducts recruitment exam

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Monday, conducted recruitment examination for about 191,000 candidates applied for various positions in the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, Yakmut Alhassan Saleh, who monitored the exercise in some centres in Abuja, said he was satisfied with the seamless conduct of the recruitment examination by JAMB.

He told newsmen that the computer-based examination took place simultaneously in 126 centres across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), was conducted by JAMB to ensure transparency and avoid rancour and confusion that trailed a similar exercise a few years ago.

He said: “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 and HND, NCE and OND and the third one for secondary school (leavers).

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“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.”

On the number of vacancies that are expected to be filled by the applicants, the Board’s secretary said 9,460 jobs are up for grabs by successful candidates, adding 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 December 15, 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.

While commending JAMB for the orderliness witnessed in the conduct of the exam, the Board’s secretary said the recruitment process has been free with no candidates expecting to pay any money.

Some of the candidates, who bared their minds on the conduct of the exam, lavished praises on both JAMB and the Board for the hitch-free exercise, as no issue of network problem was recorded during the examination.

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191,000 jostle for 9,460 Immigration, NSCDC jobs as JAMB conducts recruitment exam