The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has screened out applicants
who failed to meet the requisite qualifications for its recruitment
exercise.
The Public Relations Officer of the service, Mr Joseph Attah,
made this known to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on
Thursday.
A total of 524,315 applicants had applied for recruitment to the
service out of the required 3,200 personnel.
Attah explained that the system had begun to weed out those who
wrongly applied for the job vacancies in the service.
He said that the recruitment was specifically for professionals
and not a general one
“Some people who read Geography, Sociology or Political Science
applied for positions meant for those that studied Laboratory
Tech.
“This recruitment is for professionals alone, not on general
duty. We do take these groups of people when we are doing general
recruitment, irrespective of the courses they read.
“Such people in those kind of disciplines are usually recruited
and sent to Customs College for training,” he said.
Attah said the process was still ongoing and the successful
candidates would soon be invited for the examination through their
emails and telephones.
He disclosed that the examination would take place at the state
capitals of the candidates’ states of origin.
“For instance, if you are from Borno, you are expected to write
your exam in Maiduguri, Kogi in Lokoja, Zamfara in Gusau, Rivers in
Port Harcourt and so in all states.”
He gave the assurance that the exercise would be transparent,
adding that candidates who meet the recruitment criteria would be
invited for the examination.
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Kwara: AbdulRazaq Releases N20m to Fix Township
Roads
Kwara State Road Maintenance Agency (KWARMA) has begun massive
rehabilitation of 10 roads across Ilorin, the state capital,
including the long-neglected Offa Garage Roundabout Road.
This followed the release of N20m by Governor AbdulRahman
AbdulRazaq for immediate rehabilitation of roads that are in bad
state and needed urgent fixing in the capital city.
Engineer Usman Baba Jibril, general manager of KWARMA, said it
has already started massive rehabilitation works on the Offa Garage
and Geri Alimi-Asa Dam roads.
He said the agency has the mandate to quickly fix the roads to
end the nightmares of the people.
“We have started work immediately
based on the fund the Governor has just released to KWARMA and
Kwara State Asphalt Plant,” Jibril said.
He listed other roads to be covered “under Phase 1” to include
Isale Aluko-Kokorokan-Ita Kudimoh Road; Adeta-Al-Hikmah road;
Olorunshogo-Geri Alimi road; Kaduna Road, Adewole; Osere-Cemetry
road; General Hospital- Geri Alimi; Offa Garage Geri Alimi Road;
and Sani Okin Road.
Jibril said they have a mandate to complete the rehabilitation
within the next seven days, with the phase two of the works likely
to begin very soon.
AbdulRazaq had said last week that he would embark on
rehabilitation of roads within the metropolis and other parts of
the state in phases
He lamented the poor state of the roads across the state, adding
that the government would collaborae with the Federal Government
and private sectors on some of the roads, especially federal
roads.
Rafiu Ajakaye
Chief Press Secretary to the Kwara State Governor