OVER 20 FEARED DEAD AS THE NIGERIAN IMMIGRATION SERVICE CONDUCTS RECRUITMENT EXERCISE.

A first glance at the above picture, one would assume that UEFA champions league had decided to hold its finals in Nigeria. Don’t be deceived, it’s a gathering of the Nigerian Immigration service recruitment exercise. Late last year, an advert was made for about 4000 vacancies in the Immigration service. Yesterday, 15/03/2014 a recruitment exercise was carried out across Nigeria. Over 6.5 million applicants came for the exercise. The exercise was held in several stadiums across Nigeria.

Several persons were said to have collapsed during the early morning stampede while about 10 died as a result in Abuja as only one gate was opened to the massive number of persons at the gate. The same fate faced Minna, Port Harcourt, Gombe and Benin centres. Now each of these applicants paid 1000 naira for their application form that’s about 6.5 billion naira which may not be accounted for by the NIS.

Despite the tragedies across Nigeria, the exercise was still conducted by 3:30 pm for 35 minutes. This just depicts a pathetic Nigeria with unemployed youths. Personally, I think the NIS failed to plan effectively towards crowd control measures because these persons applied since last year and the organizers knew that it would be witnessed by massive crowd.