Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro The Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, on Sunday apologised to Nigerians over the recent botched Nigeria Immigration Service recruitment. He also asked families of the deceased and the injured applicants to forgive him. The News Agency of Nigeria recalled that the March 15 recruitment claimed the lives […]
Kayode Adelowokan The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has called for the prosecution of the Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro over the circumstances that led to the death of 16 people during the March 15 ill-fated recruitment exercise into the Nigerian Immigration Service. Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, […]
Immigration tragedy: Protesting youths clash in Abuja 1 By Our Reporter on March 26, 2014 · National From ROMANUS UGWU, Abuja There was a mild drama at the Ministry of Interior yesterday when two groups of demonstrating youths stormed the ministry to protest the death of the 17 Nigerian youths during the recent recruitment exercise […]
The big news this week was the inauguration of the National Conference, but the deaths of more than 16 young applicants who died in Abuja and other venues, during the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS recruitment exercise, overshadowed it. This tragedy mirrors the desperate situation of Nigeria.One only hopes that this unfortunate loss of lives, coupled […]
Uche Igwe | credits: File copy I am outraged, as many citizens of Nigeria, at the avoidable deaths of young people as a result of the stampede during the immigration recruitment last Saturday. I join many patriots to call for the sack and possible prosecution of the Comptroller General of Immigration, the Minister of […]
| credits: File copy President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that three employment slots be reserved for the families of those who died during the stampede that occurred during the recruitment exercise conducted by the Nigerian Immigration Service on Saturday nationwide. Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Wednesday […]
Jide Ojo | credits: File copy “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” – Martin Luther King It is the season of anomie in Nigeria. The country is now in the Hobbesian State of Nature where life is short, brutish and nasty. In the last one week, […]
Paradang and Moro President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday queried the Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro; and the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Mr. David Paradang, over the loss of 18 lives during the NIS recruitment on Saturday. The 18 died during stampedes at the venues of the NIS recruitment in different parts […]
About 18 job seekers died and many were injured on Saturday during a nationwide recruitment test conducted by the Nigeria Immigration Service. The applicants reportedly paid the sum of N1,000 as application fee. Millions of job seekers had thronged venues of the exercise, mostly stadia, for the exercise. Seven were confirmed dead after a stampede […]
By Emma Emeozor The harassment of Ghanaians by officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service at the country’s border posts has become a major concern to the Ghanaian community in Nigeria. In a chat with Daily Sun on the sideline of the 2013 celebration of the National Association of Ghanaian Communities in Nigeria (NAGHACON) held in […]
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