About a year after the badly organized recruitment exercise into the Nigeria Immigration Service that resulted in death of many Nigerian applicants and injury of other in stampede, another immigration recruitment has began with the Comptroller-General of the Service, David Parradang alerting Nigerians on fraudsters that have taken over the exercise. He warned Nigerians to beware of those he called “money-for-job” offers by individuals.

The warning, which described such people as nothing but scammers, was contained in a statement by Chukwuemeka Obua, the service Public Relations Office in Abuja today.

The statement said many criminal elements were currently using fake websites and social media accounts to defraud unsuspecting members of the public, seeking enlistment into the NIS.

It said the criminal elements used the fake sites to pose as the Comptroller-General and the PRO of the service to offer job placements to unsuspecting members of the public.

“The Comptroller-General wishes to advise members of the public to disregard any such money-for-job offers on the fake website and social media platforms.’’

It said the ongoing recruitment as being handled by the Presidential Committee, set up to assist in the conduct of 2015 Immigration recruitment, would be fair and transparent.

The statement said the website address for the recruitment is www.fedcivilservice.gov.ng while the official website of the NIS is www.immigration.gov.ng. [myad]

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari has come up with a blue-print on how he would confront corruption in Nigeria if he is elected in the March 28 election.
He said that he would start from himself by publicly declaring his assets and liabilities, and by leading the country from the point of view of security staying in front instead of remaining in the comfort of Aso Rock, the Presidential Villa.
Buhari made detailed sketches in this regard in a document which highlights what he will do in his first 100 days if he assumes power on May 29. The document is titled, “I pledge to Nigeria.”
He said: “I pledge to publicly declare my assets and liabilities encourage all my appointees to publicity declare their assets and liabilities as a pre-condition for appointment. All political appointees will only earn the salaries and allowances determined by the RMFAC.”
General Buhari also pledged to personally lead the war against corruption in the country, adding that he would inaugurate the National Council on Procurement as stipulated in the Procurement Act.
General Buhari said that all his political appointees would only earn salaries and allowances as prescribed by the Revenue and Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission (RMFAC), adding that he would encourage political appointees in his administration to also declare their assets publicly.
On the fight against insurgents, the APC flag bearer said: “I pledge, as Commander-in-Chief, to lead from the front and not behind in the comfort and security of Aso Rock, to boost the morale of fighting forces and the generality of all Nigerians.”
He said that he would also work with the National Assembly towards the immediate enactment of a Whistle Blower Act.
On the other ways to strengthen the anti-graft war, he said: “We will work with the National Assembly to strengthen the Independent Corruption Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by guaranteeing institutional autonomy, including financial and prosecutorial independence and security of tenure of officials.
“We will also make the Financial Intelligence Unit of the EFCC autonomous and operational; encourage proactive disclosure of information by government institutions in the spirit of the Freedom of Information Act.”
He also promised that his government would work with the leadership of the National Assembly and the judiciary to cut down the cost of governance, adding that the Federal Executive Council (FEC), which he said had been turned to a weekly session of contract bazaar, would be made to concentrate on its principal function of policy making.
On the fate of the kidnapped Chibok girls, General Buhari said that as a father, he had been feeling the pain of the victims of insurgency, kidnapping and violence whether “they are widows and orphans of the military, paramilitary, civilians and parents or the Chibok girls.
“My government shall act decisively on any actionable intelligence to #BringBack Our Girls.”
He made it clear that having had the rare privilege of serving the country in the military in various capacities and rose to the rank of a Major General and Commander -In -Chief of the Armed Forces, he would defend the integrity of the nation at personal and professional levels.
If the APC candidate keeps to his promise, he will be the second Nigeria’s President to publicly declare his assets.
The late President, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua, also from Katsina State as Buhari, was the first and the only Nigeria’s President to have publicly declared his assets when he assumed office.
This action forced his then Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, to also make his assets declaration forms available to the public.
However, since he assumed office as the substantive President, Jonathan has refused to make the forms available to the public, saying that he did that when he was serving as Vice President to Yar’Adua.
Asked during one of the media chats whether he would consider declaring his assets publicity, President Jonathan refused, saying he did not give a damn. [myad]

There are indications that many Nigerians who have been neck-deep in corruption, either in the government or in other aspects of private and public businesses are praying that the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari should not win the March 28 election and are planning to jet out of the country into exile in case he wins.
Information reaching us indicated that the corrupt Nigerians, especially those in the corridors of power, known as cabals have already began to flee with their loots to other parts of the world to avoid falling into the trap of General Buhari’s anti-corruption stand if he emerges President.
It would be recalled that one of the PDP national leaders, Chief Bode George recently made it public that he would flee Nigeria if General Buhari wins the Presidential election. His confession was seen as just one out of the many cases of suspected corrupt Nigerians’ plan to flee the country, and have been stashing their ‘loot’ overseas as the nation counts down to a likely Buhari/Osinbajo Presidency.
Reports from Dubai indicate that it is overflowing with Nigerian cabals’ investors who have lately been buying up property in a mad frenzy as they hurriedly move their wealth abroad anticipating the May 29th handover.
The fall of the Naira on the forex market has for a large part been attributed not only to the tanked oil prices but to the excessive demand of the Dollar by those filthy rich cabals that are actively laundering their money overseas.
Many known and secret businessmen who have enjoyed unlimited direct access to Nigeria’s oil earnings at all levels of the marketing process are said to be seeking dual citizenship in neighboring countries like Chad, Ghana and Cotonou as well as further across Africa to places like Ivory Coast, English speaking Gabon, Namibia, Kenya and South Africa.
It was gathered that other Nigerians desperate to move out before the likely coming of Buhari/Osinbajo anti-corruption regime are said to be buying permanent residences in Dubai, the United Kingdom and America.
The Caribbean Islands too are not left out as Islands like St Kitts, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago like have reported an influx of Nigerians with Dollars seeking for asylum.
Current government officials that have appeared to be prominently in the picture are the miniister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke aka oil godess, former minister of state for defence, Musliu Obanikoro and Ekiti governor, Ayo Fayose and others. They are said to be desperate for a fight to finish and to scatter the transition process as defeat becomes most imminent.
Apart from top government and ministries’ officials that are alleged to have been deep in corruption, others in the business world, armed forces, traditional institution are said to be working sleeplessly, contacting all and sundry to see to it that General Buhari does not come to power, either by hook or crook. [myad]