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<\/p>\nThe spokesman of the PSC, Ikechukwu Ani, in a statement said, \u201cThis is just twelve days after the Commission\u2019s Recruitment Portal was opened on November 30th, 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe applications hit this figure as at 11.30am today, Tuesday, December 11th, 2018. The portal will officially close on the 11th of January, 2019 in compliance with the six weeks requirement by Federal Character Commission.<\/p>\n
\u201cNiger State has the highest number of applicants at 7,985 while Bayelsa State has the least applications of 347. Kano State is second with 7,513, Katsina came third with 6,820; Bauchi fourth with 6,204 and Kaduna State fifth with 5,729 applicants.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing Bayelsa from the rear, is Lagos State with only 516 applicants, Ebonyi State is next with 600, Anambra State, 605, Abia State, 733 and Imo State with 870 applicants.<\/p>\n
\u201cOut of the 104,289 applications received so far by the Commission, 93,871 were males while 10,418 were females.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Commission restates its commitment to ensure a merit-driven and transparent recruitment exercise that will follow due process and abide with the relevant rules and regulations in the Public Service.<\/p>\n
\u201cApplicants are warned not to give money to anybody for assistance as the giver and receiver, if caught, will face the full weight of the law.<\/p>\n
\u201cApplicants are required to apply on-line to the Commission\u2019s portal www.nigeriapolicecareers.net and applications are free. This is for the benefit of other interested applicants. They are only required to fill the form online and also submit it online,\u201d the PSC statement said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Police Service Commission (PSC), on Tuesday said it has received 104,289 applications from Nigerians who want employment into the Nigeria Police Force as Constables. The spokesman of the PSC, Ikechukwu Ani, in a statement said, \u201cThis is just twelve days after the Commission\u2019s Recruitment Portal was opened on November 30th, 2018.\u201d He said: \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9960,"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":[8532],"class_list":["post-68950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-police-recruitment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68950","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=68950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}