SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – The Presidency has cancelled the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment exercise conducted nationwide last Saturday where 19 job seekers in Abuja, Benin, Port Harcourt and Niger State lost their lives.
The Presidency also offered automatic employment to currently hospitalized wounded victims while it reserved 3 Slots each for the families of those killed during the stampede at the exercise. One of the slots must however be filled by a female.
Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, disclosed this to state house correspondents on Wednesday at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting which was devoted to the incident.
Maku said the President has set up a committee led by the Chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission, to conduct a fresh recruitment exercise.
The committee has the Comptroller-General of Immigration as well as representatives of the Inspector-General of Police and the heads of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Nigerian Prisons Service, State Security Service and the Federal Road Safety Commission as members, he added.
