By Palang Paul
The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has ordered the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) to immediately resolve all technical issues affecting the ongoing paramilitary recruitment process.
The directive follows numerous complaints from applicants who said they were unable to access or track the progress of their submissions weeks after completing different stages of the recruitment exercise.
In a post on his official Facebook page on Friday, Tunji-Ojo acknowledged the frustrations of the applicants, noting that the challenges were caused by delays in uploading applicants’ information.
He wrote:
“Following recent complaints from applicants into the paramilitary agencies who are still unable to determine their fate due to the ongoing upload of information, I have directed the Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board to ensure that all uploads are completed immediately.”
The CDCFIB had earlier announced that applicants could begin checking their recruitment status from Friday. However, many users reported persistent errors on the recruitment portal. Some said the website failed to load after entering their login details, while others complained that their dashboards displayed incorrect job categories.
A user on X (formerly Twitter), @msg_snr, shared a screenshot showing a mismatch between his selected agency and the displayed guarantor’s form. Another user, @Prince3255, posted an error message from the site, alleging that “many top officials and politicians have already shared the slots among themselves.”
Several others reported being unable to find their names at all.
About 1.9 million Nigerians applied for approximately 30,000 available positions across the four paramilitary services — the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the Nigerian Correctional Service, the Federal Fire Service, and the Nigeria Immigration Service.
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