SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, (THEWILL) – The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has urged job seekers and the unemployed to be wary of dubious syndicates with specialty in extorting money from unsuspecting members of the public under the pretext of a purported recruitment exercise and promise of phantom job placements in the Corporation.
According to a statement by its Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ndu Ughmadu, the NNPC declared that it is NOT conducting any recruitment exercise at the moment adding that the Corporation would advertise vacant positions whenever it has need to embark on a recruitment exercise.
Ughmadu explained that the dubious syndicates deploy various means ranging from text messages, social media platforms and forged letters to invite gullible job seekers for non-existing job interviews after ostensibly extorting money from them.
“To this end, we wish to once again appeal to members of the public, particularly unsuspecting applicants to be wary of fraudulent invitations for job interviews at the NNPC Towers,” the statement read.
“Anyone who entertains such invitations or deals with peddlers of such invitation does so at his or her own risk.”
The Corporation noted that anyone contacted for the purpose of the purported recruitment other than through advertisement duly placed by the Corporation in national newspapers, should not hesitate to report such invitations to relevant law enforcement agencies.
