The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has disclosed that no fewer than 370,000 from the 36 states of the federation and the FCT are gunning for 4,120 available vacancies in the service.
The Comptroller General, Mr. Muhammad Babandede who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja, said out of the total number, 6,145 were invited for the training.
“397,000 applied for the jobs and there are only 4,120 slots. Each local government was represented and 10 per cent in each state were also invited based on merit and federal character,” he said
He said all successful officers would undergo a compulsory drug test stressing that any applicant who is already addicted to drugs has not a dog’s chance of being of being given the offer.
“So far, only three fake applicants were discovered and the cases were handed over to the police. The exercise will be at the end of this month and each officer who is successful must be made to undergo drug test,” he added.
The comptroller also stated that May 31,deadline for the clearance of backlog of passports was sacrosanct adding that so far, 23,907 passports were yet to be collected by applicants.
Babandede also disclosed that the Ikoyi office has the highest number of yet-to- be-all collected passports which were over 7,000.
He added that the office was billed to produce between 130,000 and 150,000 passports between yesterday and May 31, while locally, 58,000 will be produced to beat the deadline.
He said there would be no penalties for not collecting the passports before May 31.
Babandede also disclosed that a total of 41,000 new passports will be introduced into the system, adding that the highest production will be in Ikoyi, followed by Alausa.
