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  • CBN gives details on recruitment portal

    The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disowned a fake recruitment portal, created in its name and inviting eligible Nigerians to submit job applications.

    Its Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Dr. Isa AbdulMumin, made this known in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.

    According to AbdulMumin, the attention of the CBN has been drawn to a fake recruitment portal inviting “eligible” members of the public to submit applications in an exercise that will commence soon.

    “The fraudulent website lists requirements for eligibility to include, among other qualifications, the possession of a Bank Verification Number (BVN).

    “The portal goes on to state that those with physical disabilities are not eligible to apply.

    “For the avoidance of doubt, the CBN is currently not carrying out any general recruitment exercise,” he said.

    He added that the apex bank would never request for the BVN of intending applicants nor discriminate against persons with physical disabilities.

    “Members of the public are hereby warned to be wary of fraudulent recruitment agents bent on taking advantage of the employment challenge to defraud eligible applicants, particularly young graduates,” he said.

  • Customs warns against fake online recruitment notice

    Customs warns against fake online recruitment notice

    The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has called on Nigerians to disregard recruitment notice circulating online.

    The NCS Public Relations Officer, Chief Superintendent of Customs, Abdullahi Maiwada, made the call in Abuja on Friday.

    Maiwada described the notice as fake, noting that the NCS was not recruiting at the moment.

    ”The notice is the handiwork of unscrupulous element and an attempt to defraud Nigerians.

    “The recruitment notice with the link https://recruitmentfile.net/nigeria-customs-recruitment/ is fake and should be disregarded.

    “There are lots of indices to show that the notice is not from Customs, particularly the domain.

    “Our Website is www.customs.gov.ng.We do not use .net, so it is totally fake.

    “Customs is currently not recruiting and if it is doing so, it will be on the official website only,” he said.

    The spokesperson said that those involved in such act should desist, adding that it was evil.

  • Recruitment: NDLEA assures applicants of seamless online application process

    Recruitment: NDLEA assures applicants of seamless online application process

    The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has assured candidates seeking to participate in its ongoing recruitment exercise that concerted efforts are being made to resolve challenges they are facing on the application portal with a view to make the process seamless.

    The agency’s assurance is contained in a statement signed by its Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr. Femi Babafemi in Abuja.

    Babafemi, who acknowledged the technical glitches on its portal, however, said that the agency was making efforts with a view to making the process become seamless.

    Barely hours after the online application portal was opened on March 12, it began to experience glitches due to the heavy traffic of over 200,000 applicants trying to access the system.

    Babafemi said: “to resolve this, the agency upgraded the infrastructure on Tuesday March, 14 to accommodate the large volume of applicants after over 53,170 applicants had successfully logged into the portal.

    “At the moment, the system is synchronizing the data at the back-end of the infrastructure in order to adjust to the server upgrade.

    “The agency’s management therefore wishes to apologise to the applicants for the hitches being experienced, “he said.

    He urged applicants to be patient while the system completes synchronisation to serve them better.

  • INEC disowns purported ad hoc staff recruitment portal

    INEC disowns purported ad hoc staff recruitment portal

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disowned a purported ad hoc staff recruitment portal for 2023 general election, describing it as fake.

    INEC said this in a release on its official social handles on Wednesday, urging members of the public to disregard the fake link.

    “Our attention has been drawn to a fake ad hoc recruitment link inecnigeria.govservice.site being circulated online.

    “INEC official link: pres.inecnigeria.org and Inecpress-app.com/pres

    “We implore Nigerians to disregard the fake link & avoid falling victims of swindlers,” it said.

  • PSC extends closure of police recruitment portal

    PSC extends closure of police recruitment portal

    Police Service Commission (PSC) has extended the closure of its recruitment portal for the 2022 batch of constables into the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) by one month.

    PSC’s Head of Press and Public Relations, Mr Ikechukwu Ani, said this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja.

    He said that the recruitment portal, originally scheduled to close on Sept. 26, would remain open to applicants till Oct. 26, to give enough time and accommodate all interested applicants.

    Ani urged eligible applicants, who were unable to apply, to take advantage of the extension.

    He pledged the commission’s commitment to ensuring that all the applicants, who were interested in pursuing a career in the police, were not denied the opportunity.

    Ani said that the commission would also not deviate from its established policy of conducting a transparent and merit-driven police recruitment exercise.

  • INEC announces recruitment for 2023 General Election

    INEC announces recruitment for 2023 General Election

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the recruitment exercise to engage ad-hoc staff for the 2023 General Election.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports INEC to have disclosed that the portal for the recruitment exercise will open on Wednesday the 14th of September and close on the 30th of November 2022.

    “The Commission has approved the re-activation of INECPRES both the Mobile App for Android phones only and the web portal (laptops only).

    “To this end, the portal will be open to eligible applicants for registration of all categories of ad-hoc staff (SPO/PO/APO/RATECHS/RAC Managers) except the Collation officers,” a statement by INEC reads.

    See details of the INEC ad-hoc staff recruitment exercise below:

    INEC ad-hoc recruitment for 2023 general election

     

  • PSC suspends contables’ recruitment following protest by IGP

    PSC suspends contables’ recruitment following protest by IGP

    The Police Service Commission (PSC) has suspended the 2022 recruitment of Constables after a protest by the Force Headquarters.

    The PSC in a statement by Mr Ikechukwu Ani, Head of Press and Public Relations on Tuesday in Abuja, said the suspension of the recruitment exercise was to resolve all contending issues with the Nigeria Police Force.

    The PSC said its action was in the interest of the nation and
    enjoined all interested applicants to be patient while the issues were being resolved.

    The commission said it would continue to strive to give Nigerians a Police Force to be proud of.

    The Force Headquarters on Monday said it had not commenced recruitment process for the 2022 batch of Constables, contrary to a publication by the PSC.

    The PSC had on Aug. 11 issued a publication in the media on the commencement of the 2022 recruitment of Constables into the Nigeria Force.

    The Force Headquarters, however, said it had no connection with the advert, which it said was not in tandem with the Police recruitment process and called on the public to disregard it.

  • Controversy trails police constables recruitment

    Controversy trails police constables recruitment

    Contrary to a publication by the Police Service Commission (PSC), the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has said it has not commenced the 2022 Police Constables recruitment.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, Abuja made this known in a statement on Monday.

    According to CSP Adejobi, the publication, made on Page 21 of Daily Sun Newspaper of Thursday August 11, 2022 by the PSC, has no connection with the NPF.

    Adejobi stated that the publication was not in tandem with the Police recruitment process, and, therefore, the public should disregard it in all its entirety.

    The police spokesman further disclosed that the website (http://www.recruitment.psc.gov.ng) to which the publication referred intending candidates is not associated with the Nigeria Police Force.

    The statement reads: “The Nigeria Police Force wishes to inform well-meaning members of the public that it has not commenced the 2022 Police Constables recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force contrary to a publication on Page 21 of Daily Sun Newspaper of Thursday August 11, 2022 by the Police Service Commission (PSC).

    “The Police similarly states unequivocally that the advert has no connection with the Nigeria Police Force nor is it in tandem with the Police recruitment process, and should be disregarded in all its entirety. The website to which the publication refers intending candidates – http://www.recruitment.psc.gov.ng – is not associated with the Nigeria Police Force.

    “The Nigeria Police Force hereby calls on all stakeholders and intending applicants to discountenance the information in both the newspaper and on the portal as the website is not the official portal for Police Constables recruitment.

    “The Nigeria Police Force thereby assures well-meaning Nigerians that the commencement of the 2022 recruitment exercise will be announced via the official police e-recruitment website – https://policerecruitment.gov.ng, the Nigeria Police Force official website – https://www.npf.gov.ng, and advertisements on national dailies and official police social media accounts as and when due”.

  • ECOWAS denies Nigeria’s allegation of lopsided recruitment

    ECOWAS denies Nigeria’s allegation of lopsided recruitment

    The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has dismissed allegation of recruitment bias earlier made by some Nigerian lawmakers, insisting the union’s staffing process was competitive.

    Nigeria had threatened to withdraw its membership from ECOWAS over what it described as lopsided staff recruitments.

    Vice Chairman of the Parliament’s Recruitment Committee Edwin Snowe, said during a media chat in Abuja on Sunday that the allegation was a “misrepresentation” of the real issues.

    “Recruitment into the ECOWAS institutions is very competitive and cannot short-change any country let alone Nigeria that has made invaluable contributions to the development of the community.

    “There was no resolution reached at the plenary to suspend recruitment into the P5 positions as is being insinuated by Nigerian legislators. Nigerians are adequately represented in ECOWAS Parliament and other institutions of the community,” Snowe insisted.

    Last Friday, Nigeria’s representatives at the parliament said following several reports of lop-sidedness in employment, lawmakers had passed a resolution during its 2022 First Ordinary Session held from 9 June to July 3, to suspend all recruitments to allow for an audit of the exercise.

    The Nigerian representatives alleged that some principal officers were recruiting their relatives and cronies to fill existing vacancies without recourse to due process.

    Leader of the Nigerian delegation and the First Deputy Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament Ahmed Idris Wase, said it had become imperative that Nigeria reviews its relevance and membership of the bloc.

    “If you are in a system, and you are not getting the right results where you are investing your money, it pays best to walk out of the union.

    “There are few countries that want to run ECOWAS like a cabal but we will not tolerate that. “Yes, we will pull out if we don’t get the desired result from this,” Wase was quoted as saying.

    In July this year, the Nigerian Permanent Representative to ECOWAS Musa Nuhu, wrote to the Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament Sidie Mohamed Tunis, to complain about nepotistic employment scandal at the ECOWAS.

    Nigeria currently houses the headquarters of ECOWAS and remains a major financial contributor to the regional bloc.

  • ECOWAS recruitment: Reps alleges discrimination and lopsidedness

    ECOWAS recruitment: Reps alleges discrimination and lopsidedness

    House of Representatives Members, who are also members of the Economic Community of West African States Parliament, has raised alarm over alleged discrimination of Nigerians and lopsidedness in the recruitment of workers at the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja.

    The lawmakers also alleged that the ECOWAS Parliament had passed a resolution to suspend the recruitment exercise, which the leadership refused, after which the House recently passed on a resolution to review Nigeria’s contributions to and benefits from ECOWAS.

    The House had on June 30, 2022, resolved to investigate the benefits that Nigeria has derived from its investments and contributions to the sustenance of the Economic Community of West African States and the member-states.

    Members of the House had alleged discrimination and lopsidedness in the recruitment of workers at the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja.

    Consequently, the House, following the unanimous adoption of the motion, mandated its Committees on Inter-Parliamentary Relations, ECOWAS Parliament, and Foreign Affairs to “appraise the benefits and contributions of ECOWAS towards the socio-economic development of Nigeria and Nigerians in the last 10 years, with a view to determining the justification of the Country’s financial contribution to the sub-regional organisation (ECOWAS).”

    The joint committee was to report back to the House within six weeks for further legislative action.

    Newsmen on Saturday sighted a memo containing the list of applicants shortlisted for interview. The memo was from the Director of Administration and Finance to the Head, Human Resources Division, Bruno Achana. It was dated July 7, 2022, and titled ‘Travel and Accommodation Arrangement of Interviews.’

    The list of shortlisted candidates, however, showed that there were 28 Nigerians on the list of 70.

    The vacancies include Translator (Portuguese), P3/P4, whose interview date was July 18; Inter-Institutional Liaison Officer, P1/P2/P3, July 18; Strategic Planning Officer, P1/P2/P3, July 19; Assistant Budget Officer, P1/P2/P3, July 29; Financial Reporting and Treasury, P3/P4, July 23; Accountant, P1/P2/P3, July 25; Human Resource Officer, P1/P2/P3, July  25; Protocol Officer, P1/P2/P3, July 21; Parliamentary Research Officer, P2/P3/P4, July 22.

    A member of the House in the ECOWAS Parliament, Dagomie Abiante, who spoke to newsmen over the matter on Saturday, stated that it was not personal.

    The lawmaker said, “I have written several letters. It is a Nigerian thing. The Deputy Speaker has spoken about this same matter. Having taken that motion, my name is there; it was a motion that was discussed and adopted. There was a motion (at the ECOWAS Parliament) before we even came to the Nigerian Parliament. That motion is biding on the international parliament. We have now come back home to say ‘let us do an appraisal.’ If we now do an appraisal and we think it is no longer necessary for Nigeria to continue being a member of the ECOWAS, we will adopt that report on the floor of the House and make sure that our own government withdraws from the parliament.”