The Federal Government has reviewed the case of the 2,000 Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) applicants said to have been irregularly issued employment letters in February 2015.
A statement by NIS spokesman Ekpedeme King said: โThe Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) wishes to inform the 2,000 applicants for employment into the service, who were irregularly issued letters of employment in February, 2015, that the Federal Government has approved a review of the case.
โFollowing an emergency meeting of the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration, and Prisons Services Board (CDFIPB) on August 11, 2016, guidelines were issued to screen the applicants: security clearance, drug test, certificate verification and implementation of CDFIPB policy on โage on rankโ
โConsequent on the above, applicants, whose names are listed in the NIS website: www.immigration.gov.ng, should report to the NIS Headquarters in Abuja with their academic certificates; birth certificate; previous employment records (if any); indigene certificates (originals and photocopies), two passport photographs, and in batches according to the timetable: rank, state of origin, date, Asi2 (Conpass 08). Abia โ Jigawa, Kaduna โ Zamfara August 29, 2016, August 30, 2016
โAii (Conpass 06), Abia โ Jigawa, Kaduna โ Zamfara. August 31, 2016, September 1, 2016, โIa1 โ Ia3 (Conpass 3,4,5), Abia โ Edo, Ekiti โ Kwara, Lagos โ Zamfara, September 2, 2016, September 3, 2016, September 4, 2016.
โThe public should note that the exercise is not a call for fresh recruitment. Therefore, no application for recruitment should be sent to the NIS.โ
