The Police Service Commission (PSC) has said it would commence short-listing qualified candidates for recruitment of 10,000 police men from 315,032 applications received at the close of the recruitment web portal.
A statement on Wednesday from PSC spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, said the Commission will commence the next step of short listing qualified applicants based on its advertised requirements as successful ones will be invited for physical and document screening.
He said the short listing will be carried out online and the applicants are required to possess an 0’ level certificate or its equivalent with at least five credits including Mathematics and English language in not more than two sittings.
He added that applicants must be a Nigerian citizen, not less than 18 years of age or more than 25 years of age. They must also be of good character and must not have been convicted of any criminal offence.
He said Niger State still kept its first position on the number of applications received with 18,549 applicants followed by Kaduna with 17,936; Kano, 17,483 and Katsina, 17,354.
He said Lagos state dropped to the last position with 1,895 applications while Bayelsa state, previously at the rear, is now second to the last with 2,035 applications. Anambra State is with 2,204; Ebonyi State, with 2,496 while Abia State recorded 2,976 applications.
He said at the close of the recruitment portal, 271,068 males applied while only 43,785 female applications were received.
The Commission recently got the approval of the Federal Government to recruit 10,000 Nigerians into the Force as Constables for the year, 2019.
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