{"id":106957,"date":"2024-01-12T22:43:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T21:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/16000-applicants-jostle-for-270-police-constable-slots-in-jigawa"},"modified":"2024-01-13T01:21:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T00:21:45","slug":"16000-applicants-jostle-for-270-police-constable-slots-in-jigawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/16000-applicants-jostle-for-270-police-constable-slots-in-jigawa","title":{"rendered":"16,000 applicants jostle for 270 police constable slots in Jigawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>About 16, 000 candidates have applied to fill the 270 police constable slots in Jigawa State.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman of the state police command, DSP Lawan Shiisu Adamu, disclosed this to newsmen.<\/p>\n<p>According to him: \u201cCommissioner of Police A.T. Abdullahi reiterates that the recruitment exercise is free of charge and without any pecuniary obligation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further assured that the process would be conducted in the best tradition of transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>He also advises the applicants to be wary of online impostors, scammers, and other criminal elements who might want to take advantage of the process to dupe innocent applicants.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Police Force constable screening is scheduled to be held from January 8 to 29, 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. About 16, 000 candidates have applied to fill the 270 police constable slots in Jigawa State. The spokesman of the state police command, DSP Lawan Shiisu Adamu, disclosed this to newsmen. According to him: \u201cCommissioner of Police A.T. Abdullahi reiterates that the recruitment exercise is free of charge and without any pecuniary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":106956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,708,254,165],"class_list":["post-106957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-jigawa","tag-nigeria","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>16,000 applicants jostle for 270 police constable slots in Jigawa - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"About 16, 000 candidates have applied to fill the 270 police constable slots in Jigawa State. 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