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<strong>Vehicle Conveying NSCDC Officers To Lagos Crashes in Abuja</strong>

25Feb

By Mary UgwuanyiNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Vehicle Conveying NSCDC Officers To Lagos Crashes in Abuja

Some personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, were reportedly injured during an accident involving an operational vehicle on Friday evening. The road mishap happened at the Giri roundabout in Abuja. The officers were reportedly on their way to Lagos on election duty. The number of officers of the agency involved could not be obtained at the time of filing this report. A video shared by the NTA pictured passersby picking up papers suspected to be electoral materials scattered on the ground. The electoral materials were being conveyed by the vehicle, as an eyewitness said some of the NSCDC personnel in the vehicle sustained ‘life-threatening injuries’. See Also: Umahi Explains Why FG Deployed Surveillance Aircraft In Ebonyi The eyewitness said,...

190,000 Applicants Jostle For 9,460 NIS, NSCDC Jobs

Over 190,000 applicants are jostling for 9,460 job slots at the Nigeria Immigration Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The candidates sat for the examination today in 126 centres across nationwide, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The examination, which was computer-based, was conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Speaking with journalists after monitoring the exercise, Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, Yakmut Saleh, expressed delight over the seamless conduct of the recruitment exam by JAMB. He said the computer-based test was of JAMB was adopted to ensure transparency and avoid rancour and confusion that trailed a similar exercise in 2014. He said: “All...

NSCDC Dismisses Officer Caught on Tape Looting COVID-19 Palliatives

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has dismissed an officer Corps Assistant Illiya Ibrahim of the Gwagwalada Division, Abuja, who was caught on tape participating in the looting of COVID-19 palliatives discovered in the area. The Media Assistant to the Commandant General NSCDC, Ekunola Gbenga, disclosed this in a statement released in Abuja on Tuesday. He said the Commandant General Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu approved the recommendation of the Junior Staff Disciplinary Committee for the dismissal of Illiya. The recommendation was given after the officer was charged under the public service rule. “This disciplinary measure was taken after series of investigations and deliberations by the junior disciplinary committee and recommendations were made to the managemen...