Latest News on NSCDC Recruitment 2022: The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) has shortlisted 5,000 successful candidates for employment into the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps. Mrs Aisha Rufai, Secretary of the board made the announcement during a press briefing on Thursday at the Civil Defence headquarters in Abuja.
Mrs Rufai said that the board had approved
the final phase of the 2019 recruitment
exercise, thereby directed all prospective
applicants to check the Civil Defence portal Login/application portal.
She directed screened NSCDC shortlist applicant to visit NSCDC recruitment portal
http://cdfipb.careers from January 17,2022 to check for further information as NSCDC portal login would only be accessible by successful candidates.
Civil Defence (NSCDC) Shortlisted List PDF
The Secretary however noted that the portal
wouldn’t be open to candidates who had not
been successfully shortlisted.
“Applicants should check for their names,
documentation location, guidelines for
documentation exercise and print out their
invitation slip without which they will not be
allowed to participate in the exercise,” she
said.
NSCDC 2019/2020 Recruitment Date for Training
She said that the documentation exercise is to commence from January 31st,2022 and is free.
NSCDC Commandant General, Dr Ahmed
AbubakarAudi, who stated that the recruitment was specifically for 2019 applicants, said that after the documentation process, all successful candidates will be invited for training.
Audi said that a total of 1,477,042 applicants applied in 2019 but had to scale down to 746,762 when some applicants did not meet up with the requirements specified in the job publication. “A total of 217,000 candidates successfully uploaded their certificates and were shortlisted for the Computer Based Assessment Test.
“Out of 113,105 candidates shortlisted, 53,116 sat for the CBT in December, 2020 across the country and 6,500 were shortlisted for further screening,” he said.
According to the CG, the recruitment
exercised lingered until 2022 due to the
emergence of Covid-19 and the need for
proper vetting of candidates.
“Recruitment is a process and it is not easy to vet over one million (1,000,000) people as
vetting is very fundamental to the process and takes a longer time.
“The vetting was environmental, institutional, and family based,” he said.
DCC Olusola Odumosu
Director, Public Relations,
NSCDC National Headquarters,
Sauka-Abuja