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| Mr. David Shikfu Parradang mni - Immigration recruitent tragidy |
WHY?
Under his watchful eyes, 23 Nigerian job seekers who left their homes to sit for the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment examination did not return home alive. They were trampled to death. Scores were seriously injured.
According to investigation, over 6.5m Nigerians who paid an application fee of N1, 000 each applied (ie 6.5billion Naira) for 4,000 NIS vacant positions and were all made to sit for the exams at venues on the same day.
At the last count, it was learnt that there where deaths and injuries recorded in the FCT, Minna, Gombe, Port Harcourt, and Benin venues of the examination.
An immigration officer who did not want to be mentioned said about 68,000 applicants were at the stadium but only 4,000 would be employed nationwide.
Most of the applicants were seen looking haggard and frustrated and anxiously looking for refreshment. Scores were said to have collapsed during an early morning stampede at the entrance gate to the stadium. A source at the National Hospital, Abuja, said 10 of them died.
The Braithwaithe Memorial Specialist Hospital, Port Harcourt, a Rivers State government-owned secondary health facility, confirmed that four persons died in the stampede.
7 applicants die in 3 Jos centres
Seven applicants lost their lives in three out of the 37 centres where the aptitude test into the Nigerian Immigration Service was conducted yesterday while scores of others were injured as a result of stampede occasioned by the large turnout for the exercise.
3 fear dead, 4 critically injured in Minna
Three persons out of the 11,000 candidates who turned up at Women Day Secondary School, Minna, for examination into the Nigeria immigration service were yesterday feared dead...
...LEADERSHIP Sunday
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