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Lawal4green: My Advice to all those waiting for NSCDC list/app letters.........Becareful with fake App letters it happened in 2012 many letters were fake, that is why this Replacement is coded. Is only senators,Rep members and minister of interior that will bring letter for u at home.............management officers,senior officers, senior staffs in interior and other persons out interior that are highly connected too, they will call their candidates through phone call to come to his/her state command for his/her app letter, Representative will be sent to various states command wit app letters (from Abuja HQ).

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profinmasscom: Two months after the Senate Committee on Interior submitted its report of the investigation  into the  tragedy in the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment exercise, the upper legislative chamber is silent on the findings of the inquest.

No fewer than 21 people were killed in a shabby recruitment exercise conducted for thousands of Nigerians bidding for scanty slots in the NIS on March 15 this year, with several other applicants sustaining various degrees of injury.

The Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, had been widely accused of being responsible for the poor conduct of the nationwide aptitude test for the Immigration jobs, which resulted in stampedes in some of the centres, and subsequent death of some of the jobseekers.

Following huge public outcry over the tragedy, the Senate, on March 18, directed its Committee on Interior to conduct a public hearing to unravel the remote and immediate causes of the stampedes.

The committee was charged to report back to the chamber within two weeks, to enable it take appropriate action that would discourage such recklessness in future recruitment exercises.

However, almost two months after the committee led by Abubakar Bagudu, concluded investigations and submitted its report to the Senate, there is nothing to indicate that the report has either been listed in the chamber’s Order Paper for debate at the plenary.

When contacted on the matter yesterday, a member of the Senate committee that probed the tragedy, Abdulmumini Hassan said, the committee had submitted its report long ago, but said he did not know what was delaying consideration of the report in the Senate.

Rather, Hassan referred our correspondent to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Business, saying: “Do you know Ita Enang? Please call him; he is the chairman of rules and business”.

But when contacted by one of our reporters yesterday, Senator Enang said he will have to crosscheck his schedule today (Monday). “I can’t talk on it now. Call me tomorrow let me check my schedule, so that I can tell you what happened… please, please”, Enang said.

Also, when the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Media and Publicity, Zakari Mohammed, was contacted for explanations on why the lower chamber has kept mum on the tragedy, he said they agreed to suspend action on the Immigration recruitment saga, since the Senate had already commenced probe into the incident.

Our reporters reliably learnt at the weekend that almost four months after President Goodluck Jonathan directed that three family members of each of the deceased applicants should be offered slots in a fresh

Immigration recruitment exercise, the committee empanelled by the president has yet to comply with the order.

There was also controversy over the payment of hospital bills of the victims, as the interior ministry was accused of failing to fulfill its promise to settle the bills.

It would be recall that during the Senate investigative hearing, the interior minister, Moro, owned up to the negligence in the NIS recruitment exercise.

Speaking before the Bagudu led Senate, Moro said: “With regards to the ill-fated day, I cannot abdicate responsibility; the buck in the entire exercise ends on my table”.

Moro, who admitted that there was no provision in both 2012 and 2013 budgets of the ministry for the recruitment, regretted that at the time the Civil Defence, Fire Service, Immigration and Prisons Board (CDFIPB) discovered that the consultant, Drexel Technology Nigeria Limited, opted out of funding the exercise, it was already too late to terminate the exercise.

He also disclosed that at the point where the decision to contract the job to Drexel from among the four bidders for the recruitment exercise was taken, the members of the board were carried along.

Speaking earlier, the Secretary of the CDFIPB, Sylvester Tapgun, had said that when the board discovered that the exercise was going to be difficult, it advised the minister to stagger the process, but Moro refused.

The Comptroller General of the NIS, David Parradang, had also contradicted the minister when he said he only saw the notice of the advertisement for the recruitment exercise in newspapers.

He said he was never consulted, nor any meeting of the board convened to take any decision about the recruitment.

“On this note, I placed a call to the former Secretary that I was not aware of any board meeting where the decision to conduct the exercise was taken, he pleaded with me that he was under pressure, that i

should take it, but I told him this is an official matter, and that I will write him. I wrote to him, but I did not get any response until he left the service”, Parradang said.

Parradang also said he protested the recruitment modalities by suggesting staggering of the exercise, the use of state of origin, and the N1000 collections from the applicants, but the minister did not listen to him.

Dis report is obsolete

The Federal Government has been dragged to
court over the ill-fated Nigerian Immigration
Service (NIS) employment recruitment which
claimed lives across the nation.
The suit, being handled by a consortium of lawyers
on pro-bono basis (free-of-charge), led by Funke
Adekoya, will be heard by the Federal High Court in
Abuja.
In the writ of summons, the plaintiffs, Patience
Nonye Omezie and Kasim Yusuf Suleiman, are
seeking a declaration that the defendants acted in
negligence and in total disregard to the sanctity of
lives of over 520,000 Nigerians who were invited for
job interview and screening by the NIS.
Defendants are the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
(first defendant) Attorney-General of the Federation
(second), Interior Affairs Minister, Abba Moro
(third), NIS and its Comptroller General, David
Shikfu Parradang (fourth defendant).
Omezie is a Management & Accounting graduate of
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, who had been
unemployed for five years, while Suleiman is a 2010
unemployed graduate of the University of Jos.
Adekoya will lead Messrs J. S. Okutepa and former
NBA first Vice President, Ikeazor Akaraiwe, in the
matter.
The plaintiffs, suing in a representative capacity,
are also seeking a declaration that the sum of
N1,000 collected from all the job applicants at the
instance of the defendants was not only unlawful
and contrary to the Public Service Rules and
Regulations, but that it constituted a breach of the
constitutional and statutory duties the defendants
owed Nigerians, including the over 520,000
Nigerians who sought to be employed into the NIS.
They are also asking the court to declare that the
minister as “not a fit and proper person to hold
public office in Nigeria, with regard to his callous
statement that Nigerians who died and those who
were injured during the stampede resulting from the
job interview and exercises on March 15, 2014
were impatient and that the applicants did not follow
laid down procedures.”
Accordingly, the plaintiffs seek an order of court
directing the defendants to account for and repay to
all the job applicants who applied for and paid to be
employed into the Nigerian Immigration Services all
such monies, noting that such payment was illegal,
unconstitutional and contrary to public policy and
good conscience.
In her statement on oath, Omezie claimed that “as
we were rushing into the stadium, I overheard one
of the officials of the fourth defendant telling some
young men that only 500 slots was allocated to
Lagos State and that 200 of the slots have been
given to senators and ‘ogas at the top’ etc.”

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AN OPEN LETTER TO MR.
PRESIDENT ON THE
TRIBALISTIC AFFAIRS
EXHIBITED BY THE
MINISTER OF INTERIOR By
O.M. Okeke
When are we going to phase out this issue
of favouritism, nepotism and tribalism
during appointments, promotions and
recruitment in our nation?
Any person who finds himself in position of
authority fixes his kins men even if they
don’t qualify. It is disheartening to see that
people who are more qualified get nothing
because they do not know or have anyone
to stand for them.
This article is meant to call the attention of
Mr. President on the sad activities of the
Honourable Minister of Interior for his act of
impunity in conducting the affairs of his
Ministry. He has made the whole Ministry
an Idoma affair. I cannot imagine how he
expects sanity and discipline in the ministry
he heads if all he does is to fix and favour
his tribal people in the matters of
appointments, promotions and recruitment.
The most recent display of this act of
impunity is the just released promotion of
the Nigeria Immigration Service. A look at
the list of successful officers promoted
through all the different ranks will depict just
one thing; Idoma affairs. While some state
have nothing, some manage to have one
person promoted, Idoma gets 3, 4, 5 or
more. This is sheer injustice of the highest
order and a massacre of Federal Character.
Mr. President Sir, I will like at this
conjuncture wish to remind the Honourable
Minister that his duty as Minister of Interior
is not to be a Partial tribalistic head or a
messiah to the Idoma people but an
impartial non-tribal, national minister.
Annoyingly he focuses just on Idoma
marginalising other tribes in Benue State.
The corruption which the Minister allowed in
the process of the promotion exercise is
also another disturbing issue, Candidates
pay huge sum to get promoted. Some
promoted Officers did not even sit for the
Interview they paid their way and got
promoted.
Also for the first time in the history of
recruitment in the Nigeria Immigration
Service unsuspecting innocent Applicants
who do not have jobs are made to pay in
order to apply. Paying for something they
are not sure of securing. Investigation
revealed that the money paid for the
application is deposited into the Honourable
Ministers brother’s account.
The Minister also intends to give the wife of
The Senate President the consultancy
contract to carry out the proposed
recruitment exercises.
Mr. President, how would Nigerians who
stood in the sun to see that you were voted
into office be made to pay in order to apply
for jobs? The Minister came out to
shamefully refute the allegations; Nigerians
are not fools to be toyed with. We know the
truth and we can provide clear evidence of
payment made by millions of applicants.
Mr. President I believe you are doing so well
to see that you strike a balance and ensure
equal opportunities for all Nigerians, while
the minister unfortunately represents and
serve the interest of just his countrymen.
Your Excellency sir, my kind humble
request to you is to look into the Affairs of
the Federal Ministry of Interior especially as
it concerns appointments, promotions and
recruitment before the ministry is salvaged
into a tribal war field.
The Minister by his acts has shown that he
is not fit to head or hold any form of position
whatsoever in the country.
Mr. President I believe in you as a man of
Honour, a Nationalist and father to all, I
plead that you look into the recent
promotion of the Officers of the Nigerian
Immigration Service with an eagle eye with
the hope that you will intervene in the
menace they called promotion.
Many officers have made several attempts
but still didn’t get promoted because they do
not know or have anyone to stand for them.
Some of them have spent 10-15years
stagnant on a rank while those who are far
their subordinate and have found favour
gets promoted while they remain. Officers
are grieving, weeping, demoralised and
dying in silence because they cannot speak
out for fear of been victimised.
I have spoken the minds of hundreds of
officers who are in pains but cannot voice it
out. They deserve more than what they are
facing presently. Officers who protect and
guard the internal affairs of our nation
deserve a better gesture from their country
rather than been allowed to live in squallow,
sadness and pains. I am a concerned
Nigerian who seeks justice and advocate for
things to be done based on merit.
Mr. President, I am an ardent citizen who
cherishes your transformation agenda and I
have a strong conviction that you will set
the record straight and let this serve as
lesson to all persons who find themselves in
place of authority and turn it to a tribal/
family affairs. Nigeria is a National
Sovereign Country therefore let no citizen
whosoever be marginalised. The
constitution has protected its citizens
against any form of discrimination
Thank You sir
O.M. Okeke concernedNigerian!

Wishing all senior officers success in their just concluded promotional exam. It's time to face NIS recruitment strongly. Applicants should get set for d test. Date will be announce shortly.

NIS PROMOTES SIX THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED
AND NINETY THREE OFFICERS AND MEN.
The Nigerian immigration Service has released the
list of promoted officers and men from the ranks of
Immigration Assistant (IA) to the ranks of
Comptroller of Immigration Service (CIS).
This was conveyed through a letter from the Civil
Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services
Board vide Ref. No.CDFIPB/PL/NIS/330. Senior
officers promoted from the ranks of Assistant
Superintendent (ASI) and its equivalent to the ranks
of Comptroller of Immigration Service (CIS) are one
thousand nine hundred and eighty five (1,985), while
four thousand two hundred and eight (4,208) men
are from the ranks of Immigration Assistant (IA) to
the ranks of Immigration Inspectors; out of which
one hundred and fifty eight (158) eligible men on
Joint Task Force (JTF) got automatic promotion.
The CG congratulated all promoted officers and men
and enjoined them to work harder to justify their
well deserved elevation.
CHUKWUMEKA OBUA (ACI)
SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
25 September, 2013

Looking @d info above, I don't believe there will be any promotional exam.
don't be deceived that nov 27-30 is promotional exam, nothing like promotion again dis year. Na d final documentation dey wan do for special candidates, after which training start January. There are many things involved which will be a private discussion 07033345043, call me or add me on watsapp for confirm info. Happy Sunday

We'll start receiving text before xmas for proper documentation for Abuja... so pls make sure ur phone number is available. gud luck to all

Training start January... May God protect us all

NIS promotional exam comes up Nov 27-30, recruitment test will likely follow... study well o,good morning friends, and how was ur nite.
And to crown it all, I thank God for keeping me alive till today, which is my birthday, thank God with me. Have A Wonderful day

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted via SMS,and as at now nis recruitment is pending in Abuja, only the prayerful ones will receive favour.. keep praying o,our joy is near, good morning to u all

I was thinking, white fowl dressing code don end for Nysc camp, don't know I'll wear it during my NIS training in Abuja....be prepared

Stop arguing pls over immigration recruitment, although special list have been prepared in abj for special candidates, no exam, no interview, im only waiting for alert... 7b78cf54 add me for more info, and for those dt bought form, dnt panic pls, it'll be resolved.