The Federal Government has revised the recruitment rules for the Civil Defence, Fire, Correctional, and Immigration Services to make room for more women.
Women will now account for 35 percent of service recruitment.
The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made the announcement following a meeting of the Board of Civil Defence, Fire, Correctional, and Immigration Services in Abuja on Friday.
The minister, represented by the Board’s Secretary, Ja’afaru Ahmed, stated that the ongoing recruiting into the Federal Fire will be based on professionalism, gender mainstreaming, and Federal Character principles.
Tunji-Ojo said,
“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 “
He also disclosed that the Services would in due course release timelines for recruitment into all the services.
There have been several calls for the implementation of 35 percent inclusion of women in appointments in the public sector to the womenfolk.