NIS made over 6bn from application that lead to deaths and injuries of many.

Several Nigerian newspapers are reporting that at least 16 people lost their lives at various centres for the employment test for recruitment into the Nigerian Immigration Service.

The National Emergency Management Agency has already confirmed that at least 7 job applicants lost their lives at the National Stadium, Abuja due to a stampede. Some five applicants lost their lives in Port Harcourt while there are also cases of death in Minna, Niger State. According to THISDAY, Lagos (56,000 applicants) and Abuja (69,000 applicants) alone had over 125,000 applicants for 4,500 jobs!

Apart from the dead, thousands have been reported to have lost consciousness due to exhaustion and the stampede that seemed to characterize all the centres.

If anyone had doubts about the crisis level Nigeria’s unemployment situation has reached, yesterday offered a reality check as thousands of Nigerians thronged all the state capitals for jobs promised by the Immigration Service.

According to Vanguard Newspaper, the Nigerian Immigration Service raked about N6 billion from the applicants.

The following points were noted by Vanguard Newspapers via
Immigration Job Test Tragedy
- Thousands took the exercise in other state capitals.
- NIS allegedly raked N6billion from the applicants as processing fee.
- Each applicant paid N1,000.
- At the National Stadium, Abuja, which was the centre for the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, eight applicants were reported dead.
- Four others were feared dead at the Port Harcourt, Rivers State centre, three in Minna, Niger State and one in Benin-City, Edo State.
- Unconfirmed reports claimed the Benin-City victim was a pregnant applicant.
- Stampede was reported in Akure where 12,000 were invited for the test.
- Thousands of certificates were allegedly lost at the Ondo State centre.
- At the Abuja centre, the thousands of applicants were overwhelmed with emotions as eight of their colleagues were allegedly taken to the mortuary.
- About 50 were said to have fainted and several others injured.

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