{"id":117353,"date":"2019-05-15T07:32:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T06:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=117353"},"modified":"2019-05-15T07:34:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T06:34:18","slug":"nigerian-govt-abolishes-dichotomy-between-bsc-hnd-holders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=117353","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian govt abolishes dichotomy between BSC, HND holders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FG-declares-Wednesday-May-1-public-holiday.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services Board (CDFIPB) has approved the abolition of dichotomy between holders of Bachelor\u2019s Degree and Higher National Diploma (HND) in the services under the Ministry of Interior.<\/p>\n<p>According to NAN, a statement signed by the Secretary of the board, Malam Al-Hassan Yakmut, said the Chairman of CDFIPB and Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), gave the approval at the board\u2019s meeting held between May 9 and May 10, in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Yakmut said after the board\u2019s meeting, a technical committee was immediately set up to work out modalities for the implementation, adding \u201cincluding the harmonisation of ranks in accordance with the abolition\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said the board also approved the recruitment of 2,200 candidates into the Federal Fire and 7,475 candidates into the Nigeria Prisons Services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe meeting also approved the recruitment of 2,200 candidates into the Federal Fire Service, and 7,475 candidates into the Nigeria Prisons Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDambazau wishes the candidates a successful career in the services and pledges commitment of the board to ensuring adequate pre-deployment training,\u2019\u2019 he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services Board (CDFIPB) has approved the abolition of dichotomy between holders of Bachelor\u2019s Degree and Higher National Diploma (HND) in the services under the Ministry of Interior. According to NAN, a statement signed by the Secretary of the board, Malam Al-Hassan Yakmut, said the Chairman of CDFIPB and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[10670,4797,10671],"class_list":["post-117353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bsc","tag-fg","tag-hnd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}