Immigration Service Raises Alarm Over Fake Recruitment

The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has dissociated itself from websites and social media accounts that promise to employment persons into the service upon payment of certain sums of money.The NIS, according to Punch, has therefore urged Nigerians seeking employment into the service to disregard money-for-job offers by individuals, saying they are scams.The Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr. David Parradang, in a statement on February 21, Saturday, said many criminal elements were currently using fake websites and social media accounts to defraud unsuspecting members of the public, seeking enlistment into the NIS.The statement said that the criminal elements used the fake sites to pose as the Comptroller-General and the PRO of the service to offer job placements to unsuspecting members of the public.“The Comptroller-General wishes to advise members of the public to disregard any such money-for-job offers on the fake website and social media platforms.’’It noted that the ongoing recruitment as being handled by the Presidential Committee, set up to assist in the conduct of 2015 Immigration recruitment, would be fair and transparent.The statement said the website addressed for the recruitment is www.fedcivilservice.gov.ng while the official website of the NIS is www.immigration.gov.ng.Barely a year ago, the recruitment exercise conducted by the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS) led to stampedes and deaths of many of applicants in several venues around the country. The mammoth crowd that greeted these recruitment centres highlighted the high rate of employment in the country.