{"id":163429,"date":"2025-05-21T12:17:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/dss-debunks-recruitment-reports"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:23:29","slug":"dss-debunks-recruitment-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/dss-debunks-recruitment-reports","title":{"rendered":"DSS debunks recruitment reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Department of State Services, DSS, has described as false reports that it is currently recruiting.<\/p>\n<p>The DSS urged Nigerians to ignore the reports, describing them as fake.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reports had claimed that the Service was receiving applications for electricians, plumbers, mechanics and carpenters.<\/p>\n<p>The report also claimed that the recruitment was for primary school and secondary school certificates holders.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a post on its official X on Wednesday, the DSS advised Nigerians to disregard reports of the ecruitment process.<\/p>\n<p>The post read: \u201cThe public is advised to ignore any misleading or false information about the service\u2019s recruitment process. Disregard such claims, please.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Department of State Services, DSS, has described as false reports that it is currently recruiting. The DSS urged Nigerians to ignore the reports, describing them as fake. One of the reports had claimed that the Service was receiving applications for electricians, plumbers, mechanics and carpenters. The report also claimed that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":163428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[119,254],"class_list":["post-163429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-dss","tag-nigeria"],"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>DSS debunks recruitment reports - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Department of State Services, DSS, has described as false reports that it is currently recruiting. 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