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It is not limited to MDA's alone it should extend to higher institutions and those in charge of IPPSS under the finance ministry .

When you see something like this going round then expect massive APLS..
FCC and MDAs are using this kind of propaganda to distract public attention.

I go still warn una, wen u collect ur apl abeg keep quiet, no even post am here.

Success1930:
Federal Government to sanction nnpc, FIRS and others for backdoor recruitment

So FG just notice the recruitment system ?
Waoh
What a country and leaders!
Are they not controllers of federal Jobs??
Federal government should ask what happen to the Last recruitment especially the experience hire of nnpc and Federal ministry of Agriculture.
Where is the genuine list of successful candidates?
I give up on Nigeria employment system
May God help us all

Islie:


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What are we supposed to do with this news
Begin to jubilate??

Islie:


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Stories that touch

Federal Government to sanction nnpc, FIRS and others for backdoor recruitment

Some federal ministries, departments and agencies have continued to engage in backdoor recruitment despite the employment embargo imposed by the Federal Government since 2020, findings by our correspondents have revealed.

The Federal Government has, however, threatened to sanction those involved in the illegality, including the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited, Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigeria Customs Service, among other MDAs.

Investigations showed that some agencies issued employment letters to jobseekers, which were not accredited by the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation and the Federal Civil Service Commission, while others simply replaced retired or dead officials with friends and family members.

But the replacements were done without the approval of the OHCSF and the Federal Civil Service Commission.

The PUNCH had earlier reported how some civil servants, who were engaged in employment racketeering, were caught in the Federal Ministry of Works.

It was also reported how the OHCSF uncovered over 1,500 civil servants with fake employment letters in a ministry.

Corroborating this, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, said her office had detected a total of 1,618 workers whose letters of employment were either fake or illegal in the Federal Civil Service.

This is despite the embargo placed on employment by the government.

In 2019, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation was reported to have employed many individuals without following the due recruitment process.

Many groups, including the Niger Delta Youth Consort of Nigeria, protested against the nnpc for excluding the region and southerners in the secret recruitment.

The National Coordinator of the NDYCN, Chuks Onuoha, described the practice as unacceptable, but the then nnpc spokesman, Kenny Obateru, denied the recruitment.

According to him, what the nnpc management did was to fill the vacancies with personnel who were already in the system and were qualified rather than recruiting fresh ones from outside the system.

But applicants, who got to the final stage of the screening process, accused the oil giant of substituting their names with favoured candidates.

“The nnpc replaced most of the EH positions under the guise of a hurriedly planned scheme codenamed Internal Open Resource where some people, who contracted third party staff members and did not meet the requisite experience and qualifications in the advertised EH vacancies, are being deployed through the backdoor in an unfortunate and disappointing bid to jettison the EH merit list,” the President, Transparency in recruitment at Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Felix Sunday, had lamented then.

The current nnpc spokesman, Garba Deen Muhammad, asked one of our correspondents to send a message to him on WhatsApp three Fridays ago, but he had yet to respond to the message as of the time of filing this report.

Similarly, the Federal Inland Revenue Service was enmeshed in a recruitment scandal in 2021 after it emerged that it secretly engaged 2,000 workers, a development that put a strain on its budget.

The Nigerian Civil Service Union, which disclosed this in a petition to the FIRS Chairman, Muhammad Namu, in June 2021, also revealed that the agency was finding it difficult to pay salaries at some point after the secret engagement of the staff members within a period of 18 months.

It demanded an end to the re-engagement of retired directors and other categories of staff.

The media aide to the FIRS chairman, Tobi Wojuola, refused to respond to the allegations against the service when contacted.

Reacting to allegations of illegal recruitment, the Nigerian Customs Service spokesman, Timi Bomodi, insisted that there had been no backdoor recruitment in the service.

He said, “We advertise every recruitment in newspapers; there is no ministry and department of government in Nigeria that is as transparent in its recruitment process as the Nigeria Customs Service.

“All the 774 local government areas are represented in our recruitment. Applicants are made to sit aptitude tests and are selected based on their competences. You don’t need to know anybody before you can be employed in the service.”

Also, the Central Bank of Nigeria was accused of recruiting 909 staff members within two years without advertising the vacancies. Although the Federal Character Commission investigated the allegation, nothing has been heard about the case.

Our experiences – Applicants

Jobseekers have, however, described the recruitment process in the MDAs as lacking transparency.

A former applicant to the NCS, Sola Ogunbiyi, said the recruitment process for government jobs in the country was fraught with irregularities.

He said, “I applied to join the Customs in 2019. I am not happy with the entire process. The entire process made me lose interest in Federal Government jobs and shaped my view that the jobs are only for those with connection.

“You cannot tell me that all the people working in the civil service were employed based on merit. I got to my hometown because I am based in Lagos and heard about how some people had been helped by a popular politician to join the Customs and other government agencies just to service his structure.

“The following year, I got a job at one of the leading commercial banks in the country after a rigorous exercise than that of the Customs. Look, the qualities of those being employed by government agencies and private firms are miles apart; this boils down to the recruitment process. Until we get it right, a lot of things will continue to go wrong.”

Another applicant, Yemisi Odubanjo, stated, “I have tried to apply to federal agencies but all my efforts are futile. That has not been the same with my efforts at private organisations.

“I have been able to get some of the jobs I applied for. I think the process of recruitment in government agencies is not transparent enough. It is either you know someone or bribe your way through; otherwise, you cannot get a job solely on your certificate and potential.

“I applied during the last FIRS recruitment and that was the last time I sought government jobs. I was asked to pay a huge amount to get the job, which I could not afford.”

Commenting on the issue, a Senior Vice President for Africa, Human Health Education and Research Foundation, Dr Ifeanyi Nsofor, said the budget would suffer if there were backdoor recruitments.

He stated, “The problem is that how will they pay those who are employed through the backdoor? Who will pay them? For instance, if it is the health sector, that aspect of the budget suffers as a result because they have to start paying people who they didn’t plan for while taking money.

“So, service delivery will suffer; people may die if those services are not provided, and people can have all sorts of complications that they may have to live with for their lifetime.

“Ultimately, it is a matter of life and death because people will not work for free. You have to pay them and where will you get the money from? Something has to be given and most of the time, it is from service delivery, drugs, or other commodities or other capital projects.”

Errant MDAs warned

Meanwhile, the Civil Service Commission said it would sanction ministries, departments and agencies engaged in backdoor recruitment.

In an interview with one of our correspondents, the Chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission, Tukur Ingawa, explained why the employment ban by the government remained in place despite the high level of unemployment in the country.

According to him, the government decided to enforce the employment ban as a result of its dwindling revenue and the COVID-19 pandemic.

He stated, “Working in close conjunction with the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, the year 2019 was the last time recruitment into the Federal Civil Service was conducted. The general suspension of employment in the Federal Civil Service was put in place in the year 2020.

“The Federal Government’s suspension of recruitment in 2020 was informed by the dwindling government revenue due to the incidence of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

When asked if the government was not bothered by the high youth unemployment, Ingawa said, “Of course, the Federal Government is deeply worried about it. It has initiated several policies and programmes through the instrument of multilateral collaboration among the ministries, extra-ministerial departments and agencies to empower and invest in the Nigerian youth for entrepreneurial gains.

“The Nigerian Youth Investment Fund, as an instance, is being driven by the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development with the Central Bank of Nigeria to make the youth entrepreneurs.”

On the practice of replacing retired or dead officials by the MDAs, Ingawa said the relevant agencies would investigate such cases and punish those involved.

The chairman noted, “To answer your question, the Federal Civil Service Commission is the only body constitutionally charged with the responsibility of personnel recruitment, promotion and discipline in the mainstream Federal Civil Service; working in close conjunction with the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation and Ministries, Extra-Ministerial Departments and Agencies.

“That is to say, it is the only body that is legally recognised to issue letters of appointment into the service. The Federal Civil Service Commission recently disseminated a statement in that regard. The appropriate agencies of government will look into these cases as they arise and the culprits will face the wrath of the law.”

Labour states position

The Deputy President, Trade Union Congress, and President, Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, Tommy Etim, urged the government to look for an alternative to reduce the number of unemployed people in the country.

“We know the pandemic was responsible for the embargo. The pandemic impacted on our economy, but we will like the government to look for other avenues to keep unemployment low. On employment through the backdoor, I am not aware of that but I know those with fake employment are being handled by the government,” he said.

Meanwhile, the President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Emeka Orji, has described the process of employing doctors as cumbersome.

“The government needs to work on the bureaucracy of employing doctors. The process can take more than six months and it is stressful,” he observed.

Also, the Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association in the Federal Capital Territory, Dr Charles Ugwuanyi, complained about the arduous process.

He stated, “I’m not sure there’s an embargo, it is like with existing establishment rules that vacancy has to be declared and it is the job of the Minister of Labour and Employment and the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission to advertise the jobs in different establishments, and it must be well publicised in national dailies and enough time given for the information to go round and interested and qualified people will need to apply.

“After that, the next process is to shortlist and the shortlisted candidates are interviewed, which can be oral or written. If you are selected, the names are forwarded to the Federal Character Commission to make sure that no part of the country is compromised. After that, the successful candidates are issued their employment letters.

“In real life, the process does not work in one month or two months, sometimes it takes up to one year or two years, and that is why it is difficult to replace vacancies. People are leaving the service every day but the process of replacing them is very slow.”

Ugwuanyi, however, noted that the government was meeting with doctors and nurses to shorten the employment process in order to replace the healthcare workers leaving the country.

He added, “Whether we like it or not, people will leave and the services are being disrupted. Some units are collapsing in the hospitals to accommodate the demands of labour.

“About four weeks ago, a bill was passed awaiting the President’s assent for the long process to be shortened and chief executives of hospitals and health establishments will be empowered to replace them as people are leaving to reduce the impact.”

When asked if the Federal Character Commission was investigating the MDAs cited for involvement in illegal recruitment, the commission’s spokesman, Chukwudi Chizea, said he was not aware of such a probe.

But an activist, Olaseni Shalom, said the MDAs involved in such unwholesome practices had run afoul of the law, and called on the anti-graft agencies to investigate them and ensure that those culpable were brought to justice.

He said, “We have seen this illegal recruitment across ministries and agencies and this amounts to abuse of power by some civil servants and also high-ranking government officials. The implication of this illegal recruitment is the burdensome high cost of governance and of running the ministries.

“The ICPC is saddled with the responsibility of investigating such corrupt practices and punishing whoever is found culpable under the law. This will serve as a warning and deterrence to those who are still engaging in such practices. Severe consequences need to be meted out for these corrupt practices and every loophole that allows such practices must be blocked.”

The President, Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria, Prof Taiwo Obindo, expressed dissatisfaction over the lack of adequate personnel and said recruitment of doctors should be done half-yearly to meet the needs of the people.

“The process it takes to get approval for employment is arduous. For instance, at the Jos University Teaching Hospital, we have not had recruitment in over three years. People who have passed their part one exams and are meant to be senior registrars now are the ones doing the work of both house officers and junior registrars, because there has not been recruitment.

“My centre has not employed for more than three years now because it will need permission from the ministry, civil societies, and so many other things, so the bureaucratic bottlenecks are too many.

“Meanwhile, there should be recruitment every six months so that we can meet the requirement and until that need is met, many who need health services are not getting it; there are those who travel many kilometres to access care and some of them go and see a traditionalist, pastor or Imam, who is closer to them.”

Obindo noted that there were shortages of psychiatrists in the country as well.

“The World Health Organisation recommendation is one psychiatrist to 10,000 of the population; in some clime, they have reduced it to 7,000-8,000 per psychiatrist, but what we have is one psychiatrist to over one million Nigeria population and that makes it difficult for psychiatric care to go round and most of the psychiatrists that we have stay in the urban areas, so there must be a deliberate effort to make sure that people go to the rural areas; that means we must add some incentives to make sure they can stay there.

The remuneration must be equivalent to what they will get outside of the country,” he added.

The President of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, Dr Victor Makanjuola, said the one-for-one policy that was introduced by the government to reduce the shortage of doctors had not been implemented.

He said, “The way forward, which we have suggested and which the government is working on, is that anyone who leaves the country should be replaced as quickly as possible without these bureaucracies; even if they are not employing new ones, the ones that have left should be replaced by doctors who are still around and will like to work in government facilities.

“What the Chief Medical Director of UCH, Ibadan, said about the number of health workers that have left the hospital is the picture in every institution across the country.”

Lift embargo – ASUU

Some branch chairpersons of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have stressed the need for the Federal Government to lift the employment embargo in Nigerian universities. The academics also stressed the need for a smooth and seamless process in the recruitment of lecturers.

The Chairman of ASUU, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Prof Gbolahan Bolarin said, “We have some departments that are in need of senior academics. Departments like Material and Metallurgy Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering etc are seriously understaffed and are in need of senior academics via tenure appointments or sabbatical, but the IPPIS is making it impossible.

“If you check departments like Computer Science and Cyber Security, they are in need of academics too. The list is endless. The embargo should be lifted.”

The Chairman, ASUU at the University of Ilorin, Prof Moyosore Ajao, told one of our correspondents that available academic staff members were overworked.

“The first thing you need to know is that the universities have their own tradition and have their own ways of living on their own and this is why you cannot subject a university to a ministry’s bureaucratic principles, it is not going to work.

“I can tell you boldly that there is no faculty at the University of Ilorin that is not short-staffed. We have colleagues, who have retired and we can’t replace them; we have those who are dead and we can’t replace them; and the implication of this is that the few available hands are overworked and you know what the consequences are.

“To make matters worse, we can’t employ. The double jeopardy is that the IPPIS does not allow you to bring in professors on sabbatical and as adjuncts, they won’t get paid.

The Vice-Chancellor, University of Medical Services, Ondo, Ondo State, Prof Adesegun Fatusi, lamented insufficiency of trained nurses across the country.

He noted that many of the trained nurses had left the country for greener pastures in other countries.

The don stated this during the second induction of professional nurses, who recently graduated from the university. No fewer than 71 of the graduates were inducted into the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.

Represented by the Deputy VC Academics, Prof Roseangela Nwuba, the UNIMED boss said, “Well-trained nurses left the country for greener pastures abroad, which makes the need for appropriate nurse care huge across the nation.”

The don enjoined the newly inducted nurses to be emphatic and sympathetic to the situation of their patients.

Welcoming the inductees, the Secretary General and Registrar of Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, Dr Faruk Abubakar, lauded the university for working excellently in grooming young nurses and urged the institution to keep the flag flying.

A senior lecturer at Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti , Dr Cecilia Bello, said that nurses must continue to recognise the importance of their collaboration with other members of the healthcare team to sustain teamwork in ensuring the best outcomes for patients.

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Surf01:


I initially thought you're real person but from my perception you have a warped overview of life. If you suffered in Nigeria before you left, that doesn't mean everyone did. You people have issues with anyone that narrate a different Nigerian scenario. I wasn't an average man. Had my Msc in the US in 2011, self sponsored (parent fund) Yes,I sponsored the program with my own money. Had a chance to sponsor through Graduate assistant and all that but I denied cuz I didn't want to be distracted. Came back home for reasons best known to me and entered nnpc through Graduate trainee the same Year. Most people will remember the nnpc recruitment in 2011/2012. Left nnpc for a top IOC I wouldn't mention after a year. I've tasted life in US, Nigeria, UK and I can tell you I have about the same access in Nigeria. Yeah, if your type didn't leave nigeria, you will probably end up as a roadside mechanic, true. But that's not everyone story. I'm a US citizen today. If I so decided to retire back home, I'm still game. You wish everyone to tell you they're suffering or they suffered in Nigeria but that's not true. Before I reached 32,I already had a home to my name in one of the decent areas in Lagos.

You sound like a very confused being who think everyone in the US is better than 99% in Nigeria. Lol. Me and you know how Life is in the US. That's if you really had a US experience. We all know, except we want to deceive those in Naija the way we used to by painting wrong impression. I probably lived better than you as a student back then. Lol

Yeah, I have insurance, still I paid over $9k for an injury. You won't understand how the health sector in America is ripping us off. It's heavily capitalism and the players are not smiling

American buy everything on credit. My type of person never had to do that. Like I said,I'm not the average American. Thanks.

I like this part. It highlights your stupidity.

Surf01:


I initially thought you're real person but from my perception you have a warped overview of life. If you suffered in Nigeria before you left, that doesn't mean everyone did. You people have issues with anyone that narrate a different Nigerian scenario. I wasn't an average man. Had my Msc in the US in 2011, self sponsored (parent fund) Yes,I sponsored the program with my own money. Had a chance to sponsor through Graduate assistant and all that but I denied cuz I didn't want to be distracted. Came back home for reasons best known to me and entered nnpc through Graduate trainee the same Year. Most people will remember the nnpc recruitment in 2011/2012. Left nnpc for a top IOC I wouldn't mention after a year. I've tasted life in US, Nigeria, UK and I can tell you I have about the same access in Nigeria. Yeah, if your type didn't leave nigeria, you will probably end up as a roadside mechanic, true. But that's not everyone story. I'm a US citizen today. If I so decided to retire back home, I'm still game. You wish everyone to tell you they're suffering or they suffered in Nigeria but that's not true. Before I reached 32,I already had a home to my name in one of the decent areas in Lagos.

You sound like a very confused being who think everyone in the US is better than 99% in Nigeria. Lol. Me and you know how Life is in the US. That's if you really had a US experience. We all know, except we want to deceive those in Naija the way we used to by painting wrong impression. I probably lived better than you as a student back then. Lol

Yeah, I have insurance, still I paid over $9k for an injury. You won't understand how the health sector in America is ripping us off. It's heavily capitalism and the players are not smiling

American buy everything on credit. My type of person never had to do that. Like I said,I'm not the average American. Thanks.

If I'm fake, what are you? What is your name? What is your job?

Yes, over 99.95% of Nigerians earn less than 200K Naira per month That's FACT, it can't be wished away and it's EXACTLY the point of this thread!!!

Over 90% of Americans have health insurance now.

Credit? How many adult Nigerians over age 40 own a home at all, credit or not? Current official data is that 85% of Nigerians RENT their homes, the current figure in USA is about 35%. After 30 years, you own the home in the USA...same for cars.

You can't even LEGALLY own land or a home in Nigeria. ALL land belongs to the government in Nigeria, that's why you get a CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY, not a TITLE or Deed of Ownership, which is what I have in the USA. You in Nigeria own NOTHING, your Governor can seize your house any day and you can do jack about it. Most Nigerians don't even know this simple fact.

Buzz off!!! Landless citizen of Nigeria!

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Many hospitals in the country have been forced to recruit retired nurses on contract to bolster their work-force due to the massive migration of medical workers to foreign countries.

A nurse, simply identified as Mrs. Turaki, who has been in the profession for over 15 years, said that decrease in number of health personnel has only gotten worse at the tertiary hospital where she works in Bauchi state.

Turaki complained about the many things wrong with the health sector in the country including shortage of staff, poor working conditions, inadequate equipment and a heavy workload.

She noted that seven amongst her friends at the hospital have left the shores of the country for greener pastures.

Turaki, while speaking, said that, “I’m not enjoying the job again. This was not what I longed to see before joining the profession.

“I thought it’s meant to get better but things are getting worse. There has been shortage of staff and equipments, also the remuneration is nothing to write home about.”

The nurse now runs longer shifts and attends to more patients, adding that she is meant to care for four patients, or at most 10.

Turaki said that whenever she arrives at work, she has to decide which of the 50 patients on the queue needs urgent care or minor surgeries, The Punch reports.

She said that, “In a day, I attend to at least 20 patients and if I’m on the triaging table, I must attend to about 50 patients daily.

“I will triage them one after the other to know the department to refer them to.

“I have to go through their folders and check if they are new cases or they are emergency cases,” she added.

For minor surgeries, between 10 and 15 patients, Turaki noted that she usually attend to them one after the other, working hand in hand with the doctors.

“In my clinic, we work from 8 am to 4 pm but if you’re on duty, once you close by 4 pm, you remain on duty from that 4 pm till 8 am the next day,” she said.

As a result of the gruelling workload and lack of working tools, Turaki thinks the world is on her shoulders.

Turaki said that, “There was a patient who required an emergency tracheotomy but the equipment was not available.

“We referred the patient to another hospital in Jos, which was the closest but before getting there, he died.”

The nurse noted that for all her troubles, she earns N210,000 on a monthly basis.

Turaki said that, “I’m on CONHESS 12, which is grade level 13 in the civil service, and I earn N210,000 monthly.

“Meanwhile, our colleagues who have travelled abroad earn up to N1 million per month,” she added.

Similarly, another nurse based in Ondo state, Mrs. Ameh, feels overwhelmed and undervalued doing what she loves to do the most.

Ameh said that, “I enjoy my nursing job but I am overwhelmed. We are only two nurses in the clinic.

“We get easily exhausted because we attend to more than 40 patients a day, sometimes 70 patients a day.

“This is what we face every day. The work that should have been done by four people is being done by two people.

“If I see the opportunity to leave Nigeria today, I won’t wait, I will leave the country immediately because the work is overwhelming.

“If I have the means to go, I will go. I think about it every day,” she added.

Thousands of nurses like Turaki and Ameh are frustrated on the job due to the increasingly difficult working conditions.

According to the president of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Michael Nnachi, at least 57,000 nurses left the country between 2017 and 2022 in a bid to earn practise abroad and earn better pay.

Despite the World Health Organisation (WHO) code of practice, which states that member states should discourage active recruitment of health professionals from developing countries facing critical shortages of health workers, the latest data from the nursing and midwifery council shows that there is a big rise in the number of Nigerian-trained nurses who join the list.

The nursing and midwifery council noted that almost half of the foreigners last year were aged 30 or under, and a similar number were in their 40s.

Only five percent were 41 and above, compared to 14 percent of the people who joined from the United Kingdom.

The NMC, which is the regulator for nursing and midwifery professions in the UK, said that many are settling in and around London.

However, NMC data does show that medical professionals are moving to all corners of the UK and England.

According to the NMC data, 7,256 trained nurses in Nigeria relocated to the UK between March 2021 and March 2022.

Nnachi confirmed that the migration of nurses to other countries leaves the burden of care on the few available medical workers.

With an estimated population of over 200 million persons in Nigeria, there is one nurse per 1,660 people in the country, according to Nnachi.

Nnachi said that, “The concern is that care has to be qualitative but as nurses are leaving, there is such an increase in the workload that if I tell you that it is one nurse to 60 or 80 patients, it might be modest.

“But if you’re looking at the statistics and population of Nigeria, the nurse-patient ratio is one to 1,660 patients,” he added.

To save the situation, the managements of hospitals in Nigeria have decided to call back retired nurses.

Some of them believe that retired nurses still have much to offer despite their age.

Though some hospitals denied resorting to such a scheme, the recruited nurses are speaking out in anger.

After a fulfilling nursing career that spanned 35 years, Abimbola Johnson (not real name) took a bow from a federal hospital in Lagos state in 2019.

Johnson retired as an assistant director of nursing services in one of the general hospitals in Lagos.

The civil service rule in Nigeria mandates civil servants to retire either after serving for 35 years or attaining the age of 60.

The former was the basis for Johnson’s retirement as she was 58 years old at that time, however, her retirement phase was short-lived and she found herself back at work two years later.

Johnson, who is now 61 years old, said that she was recruited again as staff shortage hit the critical workforce and the pressure on hospitals escalated.

Johnson, who is currently working in the health service as a contract worker, noted that her grade level was stepped down by a rank.

She said that many of her colleagues are also back to work, all in a bid to salvage the health sector from collapse.

Johnson stated that, “I have seen colleagues who have renewed their contract up to four times, some of them have even passed age 65.

“We see them and we know ourselves. Even in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Idi-araba, we have some of our good old hands who are back there as contract nurses because of the mass exodus of nurses.”

The veteran nurse noted that she would have felt uncomfortable staying at home when she still had something to offer.

Johnson said that, “The ability is still there to work. Why would I stay indoors when I still have something to offer?

“My two-year contract ends this December but if I wish to continue, all I have to do is re-apply and renew my contract for another two years.”

Another retired nurse, who wished to remain anonymous, said that even though she is contributing her quota to healthcare delivery in the country, she is saddened by the overstretched health system.

She said that she retired from service in 2022 at age 59 as a GL 16 officer but she was recruited almost immediately as a contract nurse on GL 15.

She noted that,“Even as a retired nurse, when I begin to look at my gratuity, I am not happy.

“I look at my counterparts that work with Shell and nnpc, and I know what their gratuities are.”

The xhairman of NANNM, Lagos state council, Olurotimi Awojide, while speaking on the development, said that, “The government needs to review the salary of nurses and that is one of the reasons young nurses are leaving the country.

“We should declare an emergency in the healthcare sector. The workload is enormous and we are overstretched in taking care of patients.

“It is meant to be one nurse to four patients but because of our peculiarity in Nigeria, we still accepted one nurse to eight patients but now, you will see one nurse taking care of more than 15 patients.

“This is not allowing us to provide the expected professional care to patients.

“Nurses are graduating and leaving immediately after their final year exams because the working conditions are not encouraging.

“More nurses will still leave as it is a very serious situation. Almost everybody is planning to go abroad,” he lamented.

A nursing advocate, Bunmi Lawal, said yhT though nurses constitute the largest healthcare workforce, little attention is paid to addressing the push factors.

Lawal stated that, “We know that in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), more than five nurses leave for the US, UK and Saudi Arabia weekly.

“Our hazard allowance is nothing to write home about despite battling COVID-19, Lassa fever and other deadly diseases.

“You have a situation where one nurse will run the night shift in some of our general hospitals.

“In hospitals like the National Hospital, Abuja, two nurses run the night shift, no matter the workload. We are left with fewer hands, and the quality of care is poor.

“The government needs to address the issue of remuneration and specialty in the profession, and improve the equipment in the hospitals. Some hospitals still take delivery on the floor,’’ she noted.

Recall that a leaked memo from the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta showed that over seven staff collapsed during surgeries in one month due to exhaustion in September 2022.

The memo written and signed by the theatre manager, A.G Fagoyinbo, and dated August 29, 2022, was titled ‘Request to reduce the number of elective surgeries: Two patients per specialty per day.’

The memo reads, “The situation is such that only one peri-operative nurse works in the suite instead of three peri-operative nurses, same with other surgical staff (members).

“The excess workload has resulted in serious burn-out and extreme tiredness.”

The medical advisory committee chairman at LASUTH, Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, said that medical directors are also in pain as the brain drain digs deeper into the nursing profession.

“We are already down to about 30 per cent since about one year now that it got worse,” Fabamwo said.

“At the state government level, stakeholders have examined the issues and decided to expand the capacity of the school of nursing in Igando to produce more nurses.

“Some of them are still young and not up to 60 years and some who are 60 are still capable of working.

“In the last month or two, we have six applications from retired nurses who want to join us,’’ he added.

He noted that the hospital had sought the consent of its governing board in recruiting single qualified nurses for specific areas.

Such nurses will be required to acquire their second qualification within two years of recruitment, according to Fabamwo.

Useless good for nothing Batstards, they never talk about the secret recruitment happening in nnpc and CBN or is sor , this is why this country never worked

Penguin2:
Because this one favoured southeast, Daily Trust is rushing to report it.

Daily Trust, please make a report of the region most favoured by recruitments into nnpc, NDIC, DSS, FIRS, CBN, etc, in the past 8 years.

Ndi ala!

Are you minding the nonsense newspaper, they didn’t report on important agency like DPR CBN that have been dominated by the North for years. Where every recruitment is rigged to the maximum.

UnknownT:
This one might end up like nnpc recruitment before 2015 if they don't conclude the recruitment before 2023 elections. People passed the test in 2014, then got sms to prepare for interview, election happened, everything was postponed and died a natural death.

We pray may God forbid a repeat of this. The experience was not palatable.

This one might end up like nnpc recruitment before 2015 if they don't conclude the recruitment before 2023 elections. People passed the test in 2014, then got sms to prepare for interview, election happened, everything was postponed and died a natural death.

Dappa123:

Senate President got just 3 slotes out of the 17 candidates he submitted, that’s to tell us how tough it’s.
ES is no longer taking calls from his friends he personally promised and some prominent citizens, his cousin brothers is also stranded with his 40%. Some nominees from his immediate family are also stranded, directors candidate are also an expectant till this moment.

ES want to please the political heavyweights, then check the available vacancies before getting back to us. Be looking out as this will still unfold on the coming weeks but be rest assured is no longer merit base at that point.
God bless you all!

Thanks for this information. There has been few and far between of those as of late. If what you've shared is true, then truly, there is little or no hope for successful candidates to be selected via merit. In all honesty, this will be the last time I will waste my precious valuable time in applying for any state or federal government general recruitment. My only exceptions will be probably nnpc and NLNG, the former because they have enough slots to satisfy all the stakeholders and have some left for the mere unconnected candidates like me, and the later because there is some level of transparency in their recruitment process, i know this because i have been through theirs before.

Truth is, if we keep electing corrupt leaders into positions, they will continue sharing these slots because in their own twisted minds it is their birthright and we as the ever suffering and smiling citizens that we are, we have accepted such corrupt practices as a norm.

Thanks for the information once more brother and have a lovely day ahead.

cumacious:


My brother! We should be expecting notifications from 15th or 22nd of this month.
Just my GUESS, please!
If you participated or knew about nnpc 2014 recruitment during formal president Jonathan when applicants wrote the aptitude test, invitations for interviews were sent to successful applicants and suddenly the whole process was terminated till today immediately after president Buhari took charge of the presidency. I'm sure those who participated here in the recruitment can testify to this.
Let's just be praying, be patient, and be hopeful that we will be among those NERC will send the next step notification to and be finally employed.
Thank you!

Dear,
The same happens during the last NERC recruitment. The recruitment started before the end of the President Good luck. Restra recruiting company handled it. The exercise than didn't see the light of day when President Buhari took over.
So let us pray

cumacious:


My brother! We should be expecting notifications from 15th or 22nd of this month.
Just my GUESS please!
If you participated or knew about nnpc 2014 recruitment during formal president Jonathan, when applicants wrote the aptitude test, invitations for interview were sent to successful applicants and suddenly the whole process was terminated till today immediately president Buhari took in charge of the presidency. I'm sure those who participated here in the recruitment can testify to this.
Let's just be praying, be patience, and be hopeful that we will be among those NERC will send the next step notification to and be finally employed.
Thank you!

Yes my person, it's a matter of prayers, patience and hope. See, you might be qualified in all ramifications but yet not invited!
This is a matter of time, remember the country you find yourselves.

Don't be surprised when you've people of lesser qualifications there at the end of the day with back up and instructed to have those paper qualifications or certifications soonest.
But, the job is already theirs.
Nothing, is better than prayers. I wish myself and everyone the best.
Remember, it's not a "get and die" issues. Opportunities are still ahead. I laughed when people say NERC is their place of dream because of their certification and qualifications. Pray that it is the best for you because it might not be the best.
Thank you everyone.

Kolabajo:
So no concrete update for now?

My brother! We should be expecting notifications from 15th or 22nd of this month.
Just my GUESS please!
If you participated or knew about nnpc 2014 recruitment during formal president Jonathan, when applicants wrote the aptitude test, invitations for interview were sent to successful applicants and suddenly the whole process was terminated till today immediately president Buhari took in charge of the presidency. I'm sure those who participated here in the recruitment can testify to this.
Let's just be praying, be patience, and be hopeful that we will be among those NERC will send the next step notification to and be finally employed.
Thank you!

Investing at page 8... I hope this thread isn't as long as the 2019 nnpc recruitment thread. Good Luck Guys

Issalog:


No. They did not.

Thank you.
One of my uncle who promised me nnpc job said he can't do anything for now because they placed embargo on recruitment.

nahzyla:
Good morning, please for those in the know, did nnpc place embargo on recruitment currently?
Thank you.

No. They did not.

Good morning, please for those in the know, did nnpc place embargo on recruitment currently?
Thank you.

ulaeto:


Thank you Lek4sure, this is more clearer, even though i do not have the means to authenticate the genuinity of this info, I'll argue this particular recruitment is far from merit, to put it in other words or the words of one comrade here, its practically a "mirage".
To drive my point, i have a relative who participated with first class, chem engineering with score of 81% EH not mentioning of other credentials to his cap also from oil producing area. why is he not called.? also have a friend lecturer, first class microbiology, 78% still not contacted.
You see you guys should scrap this merit jokes and stop singing it here. we could perhaps say "First connected class of man know man" instead of the academic first class.

Telling candidates not to disclose the status of the situation is just another way of proving the hoax nature of the recruitment. it's all smokes my brother.

I rest my case, as this recruitment has turned this way, I wish you all serious successes in your endeavours and i pray we all be in good health to live this life God has given us. Amen!

Bro don't say that. Probably the competition in their state for merit was much or those with connections from those state were too heartless not to leave a slot for some merit.

I would have argued that all the slots were filled by those with connection until my friend got a call two weeks back to pick his offer letter 2 weeks ago.

This friend of mine is like a brother to me who is steadfast in prayer and a true Christian. He does not have any form of connection and his parents are just lecturers with no political affiliate.

He scored 78 in the second test and finished with a first class from a new generation university. I will gladly agree that some people got it on merit here. I can vouch for my friend even if I can't vouch for others claiming they got it on merit.

The offer states they will be an OFFICER placed on the SS7 grade. The pay is decent, greater than what was on nnpc offer. Although, I can't say if NCDMB does upfront.

But please everyone, some people got it on merit. The percentage might be 99% connection to 1% merit, but I know my friend is among the 1% merit.

I also did the test, finished with 2.1 and was among those that uploaded. But I was not lucky enough to get the offer. Anyways, there is nothing God cannot do. Have a nice day everyone.

SiltonV:



(Brain pass brain) hahahahahahahaha...
With all that you got as your supper brain, you are exercising the power of your ultimate brain IQ level on WAEC recruitment exam, when your mate with such IQ level are sitting for exams like...CBN, AGBAMI, TOTAL, NESTLE, nnpc, DPR, IMF, WHO, UNESCO, etc. And with your ( brain pass brain), you are showcasing your unequalled IQ level in an insignificant job recruitment like WAEC... Brain Pass Brain sir or ma, where were you when people are coming out with First-class degrees? Cos if your brain pass brain could get you First class degree, you won't be here competing with low IQ levels graduates that always apply for ordinary WAEC Job.

You are a child that needs a whole lot of growth both socially, academically...

I can only read frustrations all over you from your texts. The bitterness level is just so obvious on the screen (hahahaha)
Interestingly, I am not here to exchange words of insults with anybody.

This whole time you wasted typing this "unfruitful" texts could be use for something worthwhile.

Akerry:


@bolded, it is very easy to do that. I can remember most of the mathematics and quantitative reasoning questions.

I choose not to reply that guy generalizing things based on the fact that he couldn't recollect any questions

(Brain pass brain sir)��haha

We are praying for the best news from WAEC and not all these unneccessary arguments of who can recollect questions

(Brain pass brain) hahahahahahahaha...
With all that you got as your supper brain, you are exercising the power of your ultimate brain IQ level on WAEC recruitment exam, when your mate with such IQ level are sitting for exams like...CBN, AGBAMI, TOTAL, NESTLE, nnpc, DPR, IMF, WHO, UNESCO, etc. And with your ( brain pass brain), you are showcasing your unequalled IQ level in an insignificant job recruitment like WAEC... Brain Pass Brain sir or ma, where were you when people are coming out with First-class degrees? Cos if your brain pass brain could get you First class degree, you won't be here competing with low IQ levels graduates that always apply for ordinary WAEC Job.

You are a child that needs a whole lot of growth both socially, academically...

Bluntemperor:


What makes him wicked?
This is the kind of naunceating speeches that put reasonable people off as its reasoning from anus and dirty:
- you can becomes slaves for life,if you chose to or
must those who can't produce oil be the managing director for life or shall we talk of being custom director or
- should Nigerians not questions those saying they have the skills in running the affairs of these Nation when we can't see the Youths in Nigerians being employed,24/7 Lights is not forth coming- even the States of Federation is worst as Governors callected NBillions for Security Votes but we still have serious Security challenges in many States,only to blame the Federal Govt virtually on everything!
So can't these restless Youths - all over the Country ask for their rewards,since those who claimed to have managed their resources,since 1960 could not account for them,as corruption have eaten them!
Rather than telling us,you travel to Dubai,is Dubai not a very dry land but their leaders decided to do things differently?

You are just mixing your points up

Is it Atiku's travel to Dubai that's you grouse or unemployment or poor infrastructure or what?

If Atiku who's not holding any elective position travel to Dubai, what's the problem, sebi wike will soon end his governorship tenure, wait and see where he will travel to.

Jonathan was 6yrs president, a southern what did he do about packing or the southern into custom, nnpc even ordinary immigration recruitment, it became a stampede.

Continue following wike, he has siphoned much money for his family na only death and sickness such that happened to ekeremadu that they fear.

haftob:

I don't understand your point honestly. Like do u expect them to post the names of ppl that got the job publicly? The only organisations that I know that does that are the forces (police and the armed forces) or have u seen any other organisation that does that?
Yes there will be people that will get the job because they knw ppl (as expected of a govt organization even in private organizations too) but people will also get it on merit. The one person I knw that got the GT role has a strong BSc and a very strong foreign MSc and also internship experiences with two different IOCs, and also has a very high score in both tests we did. Let's even assume the person got it through "connect", abeg shey the person no merit am?
The thing is, it's not everyone that will get the job, the spaces available are limited. Even if they recruit a thousand GTs like nnpc, it won't still go round. So just accept it like that and move on, atleast we av closure now that the whole thing has been concluded.

You did understand my point but chose to negate. That you even support this is unbelievable; like, how did we get here?

The job advert was on national dailies, everyother process was open, when it got to APL, it turned a secret. Come on, who is deceiving who? What's the secrecy for?

You mean those that have painfully participated in this recruitment do not deserve to at least know that APL is out? No mail, nothing. To even resort to phone calls is ridiculous.

All the best to everyone

LuxInnovation1:
If it is true that they are secretly contacting "successful applicants", then it is unfortunate. Very very unfortunate. I also applied for this job, and uploaded my docs too. I would have been sorrowful too if I didn't get a good job afterwards.

How I wish applicants will seek justice via social media. This does not depict the new Nigeria we all desire. Unfortunately, the applicants are not many.

Customs recruitment took long too (2019 to 2021) and ended successfully with majority if not all on merit. The customs boss stood for transparency.

Kind advice: Keep hopes alive, but for your mental health, look other way


God will help us.

I don't understand your point honestly. Like do u expect them to post the names of ppl that got the job publicly? The only organisations that I know that does that are the forces (police and the armed forces) or have u seen any other organisation that does that?
Yes there will be people that will get the job because they knw ppl (as expected of a govt organization even in private organizations too) but people will also get it on merit. The one person I knw that got the GT role has a strong BSc and a very strong foreign MSc and also internship experiences with two different IOCs, and also has a very high score in both tests we did. Let's even assume the person got it through "connect", abeg shey the person no merit am?
The thing is, it's not everyone that will get the job, the spaces available are limited. Even if they recruit a thousand GTs like nnpc, it won't still go round. So just accept it like that and move on, atleast we av closure now that the whole thing has been concluded.

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The junior staff can still fill up the vacant roles. It happened with nnpc recruitment after external candidates had their interviews, the slots were eventually filled by internal staffs. This is Nigeria where anything goes!

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sarrki:
The on-going construction of three-layer Muhammadu Buhari Interchange project gets to advanced stage at Hotoro, nnpc Roundabout in Kano .

Ganduje

The Gandollar man who failed to employ teachers for every child to be in school instead of roaming the streets as almajiris, ready for Boko Haram and bandits recruitment to terrorise the big men who don't care as long as they are looting to their fill