The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) has announced that its ongoing recruitment exercise has entered its final stages and is expected to be completed within four weeks. The update was contained in a statement signed by Maj Gen. (Rtd) AM Jibril, Secretary to the Board, and released on Friday, August 21, from the board's office at the Old Federal Secretariat.
Large Volume of Applications Necessitates Thorough Vetting
The board acknowledged the high level of anxiety among applicants but explained that the large number of applications received from across Nigeria made it necessary to conduct a thorough and careful selection process. In the statement, the CDCFIB said it deliberately chose not to rush the exercise to ensure fairness and accuracy.
“It is the intention of the CDCFIB not to rush the entire recruitment process, but to bring it to completion without any prejudice to the principles of justice, merit, federal character, due process, and the operational requirements of the four services,” the statement read.
Principles Guiding the Selection Process
The board said the selection has been guided by core principles including merit, federal character, and the specific operational needs of each of the four services under its oversight. These services are the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, the Nigerian Correctional Service, the Federal Fire Service, and the Nigeria Immigration Service.
The CDCFIB oversees recruitment, promotion, and discipline across these four paramilitary agencies, and its hiring exercises typically attract hundreds of thousands of applicants nationwide.
How Candidates Will Be Notified
Once the final stage is complete, all candidates will receive their outcome through the board’s official recruitment platform at recruitment.cdcfib.gov.ng. The board did not provide a specific date beyond the four-week window.
The statement also thanked applicants for their patience and assured them that the wait would be worthwhile. “We sincerely thank all candidates for their patience and we assure the public that the candidates' patience shall surely be rewarded,” Jibril wrote.
In a related development, Legit.ng earlier reported that Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the Minister of Interior, intervened in nationwide complaints from applicants who were unable to access the CDCFIB recruitment portal for verification of their application status. In a statement on Friday, October 31, the minister ordered the immediate resolution of all technical hitches affecting the portal.
