A slogan of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) says: “Police is Your Friend”. Police, indeed, are friends of the citizenry, because they are the ones everybody looks for when confronted with threats to life and property. But it is also true that the Police are not very popular with most people because the average policeman is generally perceived as being highhanded, corrupt, and unfriendly. They are also very poorly treated by the Federal Government. Few of our young people will voluntarily join the Police Force if they have the luxury of choice. It was an irony of sorts when the Police Service Commission (PSC) recently invited applications from qualified Nigerians for recruitment into the Force based on President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval for the recruitment of 10,000 policemen. The Commission had advertised for the hiring of 500 Cadet ASPs, 500 Cadet Inspectors, 1,500 Specialist Officers and 7, 500 Constables. Within a few days of the advertisement, officials of the PSC were astounded, if not shocked, by the response from applicants. According to Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations of the Commission, between April 24 and May 2, 2016 no fewer than 843,008 applications had been received. A breakdown of this showed that 243,327 applications were received for ASP cadre, while 197,990 and 401,691 applied for the Inspector and Police Constable cadres, respectively. Soon after, the figure rose to over one million applicants, leaving many wondering if the Police was indeed as unpopular as generally held. Even the Inspector General of Police could not help but exclaim that he “never knew Nigerians liked the police this much that such a gargantuan number wants to join the Force.” It is, however, obvious that the stampede for police jobs has little to do with “popularity”. With an unemployment rate of 36.8 per cent of Nigeria’s over 170 million people, jobless Nigerians certainly cannot be too choosy when positions are advertised by any organisation. This was what informed the response by 6.5 million applicants to the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment in March 2014, which ended tragically with the death of 23 job seekers during a recruitment test. The Police authorities have to exercise extreme care in this recruitment drive, ensuring that only people who are suitably qualified with impeccable characters and backgrounds will be brought on board. The process of ascertaining this must be very painstaking to keep out bad eggs. The large number of applicants for every job opening, is an enduring warning bell over the worrisome unemployment situation. We urge governments at all levels to come up with radical ideas to put more of our idle youth to work and reduce the social consequences of high unemployment.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/one-million-chasing-10000-police-jobs/

Unemployment rate in Nigeria is over 60% and not 36.8 %

chai

SamuelAnyawu:
Unemployment rate in Nigeria is over 60% and not 36.8 %

Don't mind d moffos.



And no thanks to the dullard. In anoda news










Have you blamed GEJ today so as to enjoy full zombie membership?

Naija I hail dee

na wao

Naija I hail dee ooo

Chaiiii









Nawaoo

With This high rate of unemployment, some silly Nigerians Youths still have the guts to defend GEJ that Governed this blessed Nation during the days of Oil boom but rather squandered the proceedings from the oil on selected few party cronies instead of using it to better our life



If Posterity fails to judge GEJ wickedly, then Posterity itself is just a "MYTH"

God punish that Otuoke Bastards drunk

This one no be LUCKY DIP again

Even when people keep saying the police force is a cursed profession 1 million Nigerians are not afraid to take a cursed job

free2ryhme:
Even when people keep saying the police force is a cursed profession 1 million Nigerians are not afraid to take a cursed job

that shows how desperate they are

The hope for an average youth in this country is edibly growing hopeless.

Is this the same police force 1/3 of every nigeria hate! In fact you will hear people say,if snake nd police enter your house first of all chase the police before you chase d snake....

Am truly dumbfounded


Truly there's problem with regard to job employment in this country.

Our first class student are only first class in paper(written) nd not first class for an entrepreneur creative mind.

Police job? Never

well, Thought it should have gone as high as 20million by now, considering the rate of joblessness.



if not for that black Uniform discouraging people sha.

This is pathetic.

Nigerians actually have high moral standards, if not, with this high rate of unemployment with a corrupt and ineffectual police force, crime should be much higher than it is.

it is well with Nigeria

Na wa oo

can you blame us! people just went online to book space but for many it is the lender of last resort ):

9jai hail thee.

korel9:

And no thanks to the dullard. In anoda news


Have you blamed GEJ today so as to enjoy full zombie membership?

blaming Buhari for the current state of unemployment barely a year into His govt !!!!!


now I see why they call U guys wailers

Saheed9:
that shows how desperate they are

It is not desperation but the finacial incentives of the roger

Most people applying have jobs already.

This is sad.

I SHAKE MY HEAD FOR NIGERIA

Pavore9:
This is sad.

The worst is that ARMED ROBBERS have also applied for the JOB.
Very soon they will be given RIFLES and u know what that means.
One APPLICANT in my street has already started arresting people now.

Wow...unbelieveable.

Its Naija naa...soon there will be a stampede where people will injure themselves or eventually lost there lives... Vry pathetic country

EVILFOREST:

The worst is that ARMED ROBBERS have also applied for the jobs

Certainty because l doubt if security check will be run on every applicant.

Nigerians wey wan carry guns go road block plenty ooo

tabithababy:
Most people applying have jobs already.

What kinda job?
Is it 20k monthly job?
My dear things are hard.

I have personally applied for ASP cadet but up till now I can't still imagine myself apply for police work even though I was pressurize by my dad to apply