Nigeria Immigration Service has finally employed eight hundred and eighty-eight applicants who met all the criteria out of the two thousand aggrieved applicants with the fresh employment process by government.

About six point five million applicants had applied for the immigration employments reported to various designated centers across the country for screening.

The inability to manage the large number of applicants resulted in the death of sixteen persons and injuries to a score of others. Consequently, the exercise was suspended and therefore inconclusive.

In reaction to the unfortunate incident, former President Goodluck Jonathan set-up a presidential committee with a mandate to assist the Civil Defence, Fire Immigration and Prisons Service Board, in carrying out recruitment exercise to fill the vacancies in the service.

Its Comptroller General, Mohammed Babandede, while briefing newsmen on the update of the reviewed recruitment exercise said the board, the body with the statutory duty to recruit issued out guidelines for a fresh screening of only two thousand applicants that were involved and whose names were published in Leadership and Thisday newspapers on August fifteen and sixteen this year.

He said out of the two thousand applicants, a total of one thousand four hundred and seventy reported for screening while eight hundred and eighty-eight met all the criteria and were therefore successful.