The Federal Government said it will begin to employ more women into the Civil Defence, Fire, Correctional, and Immigration Services.
This inferably means that there would be a reduction in the number of men’s recruitment into the service.
The recalibration was made known by the Secretary of the Board, Ja’afaru Ahmed, after the meeting of the Board of the Civil Defence, Fire, Correctional and Immigration Services in Abuja on Friday.
Ahmed who represented the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said henceforth, 35 percent of recruitment into the services would be allocated to women.
He added that the ongoing recruitment into the Federal Fire would be done based on professionalism, gender mainstreaming, and Federal Character principles.
Speaking, “The federal government through the Board has approved the review of the guidelines for recruitment into, and promotion in all the four Services under the Ministry of Interior.
“The development also comes with the modernisation of the operations of the Nigeria Immigration Service. The modernisation is going to be all-encompassing training, recruitment, promotion, professionalism and capacity building and deployment of cutting-edge technologies.“
