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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved 2, 250 job slots for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Nation reports that the agency is expected to recruit 750 new employees per annum over three years. The anti-graft agency in collaboration with the Federal Character Commission...

Nigeria - Recent reports has revealed identities of several prominent Nigerians who escaped death by the whiskers at the recent Hajj stampede tragedy. 747 people died in the stampede and over 800 were injured. According to The Nation, the immediate past National Chairman of the Peoples...

Nigeria - Recent reports from THE NATION says prominent members of the PDP had a close shave with death as they were present at the recent hajj stampede which claimed 747 lives and left over 800 injured. According to The Nation, these prominent Nigerian politicians were also present at the...

President Goodluck Jonathan has come under severe pressure from groups and individuals to save Interior Minister Abba Moro from being axed following last weekend’s stampede at the Immigration Service’s recruitment centres across the country. About 19 job seekers died in the stampede which the...

Unconfirmed reports say that 7 persons may have died and several others injured following a stampede at the National Stadium, Abuja. This was the venue of an aptitude test for the 2013/2014 applicants who had applied to join the Nigerian Immigration Service. Eye witness account said that over...

The Edo state Government on Friday offered jobs to 11 of the 20 surviving victims of the 2014 Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment stampede in Benin. The state governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, announced the offer in Benin when he received the victims, including the widower and children...

Barley 24 hours after President Goodluck Jonathan announced automatic employment for injured applicants during the just concluded recruitment exercise of the Nigeria Immigration Service; no fewer than 200 applicants have reportedly stormed the National Hospital, Abuja, seeking to be registered...

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President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that three employment slots be reserved for the families of those who died during the stampede that occurred during the recruitment exercise conducted by the Nigerian Immigration Service on Saturday nationwide. Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku...

Jonah Mndepawe Kwaghe is a 24-year-old woman from Michika town in Adamawa State and was declared dead on Facebook, but she is yet to know how her personal information was exposed. She got a call from her mother. “I was working in Kano, I was not in Abuja and she told me that some people called...

The meeting lasted about 30 minutes. President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday summoned the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, as well as the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, David Parradang. The emergency summon comes two days after at least 18 people died nationwide at...

On Saturday, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) held a recruitment drive which resulted in the death of 19 job seekers including 4 pregnant women. 3 pregnant women died in Benin,8 applicants in Abuja, 3 in Minna and 5 in Port Harcourt including a pregnant woman. Dozens others were injured in...

Nigeria's Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro yesterday blamed applicants for the deaths that occurred at different venues of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment test. Moro said, "The applicants lost their lives due to impatience; they did not follow the laid down procedures...

Mr Chukwuemeka Obua, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said on Monday in Abuja that victims of the botched March 15 recruitment would be employed after a fresh exercise. On March 15, the service had conducted a nationwide recruitment that claimed the...

It was a Saturday filled with tears, sweat and blood when thousands of Nigerians thronged different venues Nationwide to participate in the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment test. 19 people including 4 pregnant woman lost their lives due to the stampede that occurred in about 5...

The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has responded to an earlier statement issued by All Progressives Congress (APC) which heaped blames on the ruling party for the deaths that occurred during the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment test. The PDP in its reply titled ''Have...

There are indications that Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, hurriedly organised the ill-fated recruitment tests for the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to cover up the suspected fraud in the process that resulted in the deaths of many applicants on Saturday. Investigations by Daily...