The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has directed the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) to urgently complete the ongoing upload of applicant data in the current recruitment exercise for Nigeria’s paramilitary agencies.
This directive follows mounting frustrations from thousands of applicants who have been unable to confirm their application status weeks after completing various stages of the process.
In a statement shared via his official Facebook page on Friday, Tunji-Ojo acknowledged the delays, explaining that they were due to technical challenges with the data upload.
He wrote:
“Following recent complaints from applicants into the paramilitary agencies who are still unable to determine their fate due to the ongoing upload of information, I have directed the Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board to ensure that all uploads are completed immediately.”
The CDCFIB had earlier announced that applicants could start checking their recruitment status from Friday. However, numerous users reported glitches on the recruitment portal.
Some applicants claimed the website became unresponsive after entering their
login details, while others said their dashboards displayed wrong job categories — showing, for instance, “Fire Service” instead of “Immigration Service.”One applicant on X (formerly Twitter), @msg_snr, shared a screenshot and wrote:
“Who else is seeing this? The applicant applied for NIS, and the guarantor’s form is showing Fire Service. Is this a glitch or a typo?”
Another user, @Prince3255, also posted an error message from the portal, adding:
“We shall be waiting patiently for the outcome, even though many believe the slots have already been shared among top officials.”
Several others shared similar screenshots, lamenting their inability to move to the next stage of the recruitment.
According to reports, over 1.9 million Nigerians applied for approximately 30,000 vacancies across the four paramilitary services — the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Federal Fire Service (FFS), and the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS).
Dr. Tunji-Ojo reaffirmed his ministry’s commitment to a transparent and merit-based recruitment process, assuring that all applicants would soon be able to view their correct status on the portal.
