I was outraged, and so were most Nigerians all over the world, by the news of some 19 young Nigerians dying in the course of trying to get a job with the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Saturday March 15. The applicants were graduates with varying educational qualifications, from OND to HND, to BSc, and even MSc.
The recruitment exercise went on simultaneously, but with varying degree of clumsiness by the officials, in all the states of the federation. It was a national exercise for a national employment. Some account say about 2 million people had applied out of which some 770,000 were shortlisted and invited to the various centres, out of which 5000 or less were to be engaged in the final analysis.
