Paramilitary recruitment: 360,923 applicants disqualified as 432,935 fail to complete applications

By Omeiza Ajayi

No fewer than 360,923 applicants have been disqualified from the ongoing recruitment exercise of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board CDCFIB, while another 432,935 failed to complete their applications, new data from the board’s official recruitment portal has revealed.

The figures, published on the CDCFIB Recruitment Portal following the closure of the Computer-Based Test CBT examination phase, paint a sobering picture of the exercise, in which a combined total of nearly 800,000 applicants — out of an overall pool of approximately 1.9 million — either fell short of the requirements or failed to see their applications through to completion.

Of the total applications received, only 1,120,491, representing 58.5 percent, were completed, while incomplete applications accounted for 22.6 percent and disqualified entries for 18.9 percent.

The gender breakdown is equally striking. Male applicants dominated the exercise overwhelmingly, accounting for 737,270 completed applications, or 69.5 percent of the total, against 323,052 female applicants, who made up just 30.5 percent — a ratio that underscores the persistent gap in female participation in uniformed service recruitment in Nigeria.

The state-by-state data showed that Kogi State, with 75,494 completed applications, led the entire country, ahead of Nasarawa with 69,041 and Oyo with 69,071. Jigawa returned 54,414, Yobe 52,487 and Ogun 50,940. Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous state and commercial nerve centre, recorded one of the lowest figures in the country, with completed applications estimated between 5,000 and 6,000 — a performance that stands in sharp contrast to its population size and economic profile.

The portal confirms that the CBT examination phase is now closed.

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