Emerging report reaching on Thursday, indicates that the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire, and Immigration Services Board has shortlisted 5,000 successful Candidates for employment into the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, out of the 1,477,042 Candidates that applied in the 2019 recruitment exercise.
The Secretary of the Board, Mrs. Aisha Rufai, disclosed this at the Civil Defence headquarters, in Abuja, directing all Applicants to check the application portal: http://cdfipb.careers, from January 17, 2022.
She however, noted that the portal would not open to Candidates who were not shortlisted, adding that, the documentation exercise would commence from January 31, 2022.
She added: “Applicants should check for their names, documentation location, guidelines for documentation exercise, and print out their invitation slip, without which they will not be allowed to participate in the exercise.”
Speaking, the NSCDC Commandant-General, CG, Dr. Ahmed Audi, stated that the recruitment was specifically for the 2019 Applicants, adding that, the successful Candidates would be invited for training, after the documentation process.
Audi said that a total of 1,477,042 Applicants applied in 2019, but the number was reduced to 746,762, when some Applicants did not meet up with the specified requirements.
He stated: “A total of 217,000 Candidates successfully uploaded their certificates, and were shortlisted for the Computer-Based Assessment Test.
“Out of 113,105 Candidates shortlisted, 53,116 sat for the CBT, in December 2020, across the country, and 6,500 were shortlisted for further screening.”
According to the CG, the recruitment exercise lingered till 2022, due to the emergence of Covid-19, and the need for proper vetting of the Candidates.
He noted: “Recruitment is a process, and it is not easy to vet over one million people, as vetting is very fundamental to the process, and takes a longer time.”