NewStats: 3,259,789 , 8,170,911 topics. Date: Monday, 26 May 2025 at 02:26 AM 91w1i

NO fewer than 127,491 candidates who applied to the police will from Tuesday storm the various state police command headquarters nationwide for physical screening.

The applicants consist of 104,403 from the North and 23,088 from the Southern part of the country.

A breakdown revealed that Abia State has 596 constable applicants; Akwa Ibom 3,536; Anambra 314; Bayelsa 759; Cross River 2,704; Delta 976; Ebonyi 463; Edo 1,206; Ekiti 1,417; Enugu 707; Imo 852; Lagos 562; Ogun 1,154; Ondo 2,472; Osun 2,006; Oyo 1,767 and Rivers 1,597.

Others are Plateau 4,100; Kebbi 3,596; Katsina 7,605; Kano 7,557; Kaduna 7,436; Jigawa 4,951; Benue 6,578; Adamawa 8,206; Bauchi 7,140; Borno 8,693; Federal Capital Territory 4,418; Kogi 4,412; Kwara 2,410; Nasarawa 4,700; Niger 4,672; Sokoto 2,450; Taraba 4,075; Yobe 4,992; Gombe, 4,416 and Zamfara 1,990.

A wireless message directed the applicants to resume at specified police commands with effect from February 1-20.

The applicants were directed to appear with their National Identity Number, original and duplicate copies of credentials, certificates of origin, birth certificates or declaration of age, printouts of application and duly completed guarantor’s forms.

The message titled, ‘2021 recruitment of 10,000 police constables,’ advised the officers in charge of the exercise to ensure that screened candidates are recommended only on merit.

It cautioned against corrupt practices and onished the officers to adhere strictly to the guidelines stipulated in the Police Act and Regulations.

“You are to ensure that nominated Special Investigation Bureaus are present at the various states and FCT command headquarters designated as centres for the exercise, before, during and after the physical screening.

“They are to draw up threat analysis at their respective centres and profile all invited applicants so that criminal elements are not recruited into the force,” the order from the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, read.

The police boss also directed his men to ensure that only indigenes of the state are screened, noting that the screening would be conducted on a local government basis.

https://punchng.com/104403-northerners-23088-southerners-apply-for-police-recruitment/

At this age and time, na only person wey don give up on life will apply for police job.... With all the nuisance politicians dey use police are constituting these days...

I personally wish to the military but with the way politicians use their lives to play like chicken, I backed out... The Nigerian military use to be my pride until politicians useless them and turned them into another thing.....

Hmmm smh.. North Sha..

That the last job I do in this kauntry!

This data gives very vital information that something is fundamentally wrong with our system

Issokay

The reason is simply obvious: southerners are wary of cursed job.
Ise olopa = ise epe.
A police job in Nigeria will never add any value to one's life, rather it will depreciate your IQ and moral values. For instance, a member of this forum once commented that you can never come across a computer system connected with internet in Nigerian police stations. I decided to take notice after reading that comment, and to my surprise, that nairalander was right.

Anambra indigenes need to change the negative mentality about the Nigeria Police Force.
There was a certain police doctor from my town. Even though he wasn’t the typical olopa you’d see at checkpoints, he was still paranoid about his involvement with the NPF. Not a lot of people knew he was a police man and this was more than 20 years.

In the next 10-20 years from now, we’d be wondering why northerners are the majority in the police force.

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Nigerian youth will be deceiving themselves saying there's no job and the Northerners take what is 'Available' today then, you all will start complaining tomorrow.

Who said Southern and Eastern youth can't build a life from police job or even switch to other jobs later in life?

Let there be no Excuse for Laziness please

lol see margin application be lik Election....

omo people for south no gri wan apply true true...


Buh if dem ask me to advice someone to choose between committin suicide or the NPF...


I will jus advice the person to commit suicide

See the difference between the North and South figure

ing Nigeria armed forces is a death sentence in this country

They want more southerners to apply for how many slots

Can they employ all the 23k people that have applied

They should also try and be this transparent when advertising jobs for NNPC, FIRS, CBN and Customs

After ing, let each person be posted to his state to go and work there.

Who cares about Police Force job,the ingrained and unbridled corruption in this system is enough to make many take it with a pinch of salt.

Referendum unfolding right before the eyes of the desperate one Nigeria advocates.

This is a very risky development. The Southern states need to show more interest in this sort of recruitment opportunities. E get why.

KosiGee:
Anambra indigenes need to change the negative mentality about the Nigeria Police Force.
There was a certain police doctor from my town. Even though he wasn’t the typical olopa you’d see at checkpoints, he was still paranoid about his involvement with the NPF. Not a lot of people knew he was a police man and this was more than 20 years.

In the next 10-20 years from now, we’d be wondering why northerners are the majority in the police force.

Nothing 2 worry about only that you will be used as a target practice instrument!!

It seems the number of applicant is in line with the unemployment rate across the states.

The higher the unemployment rate the higher the application to police force.

Hmm...

KosiGee:
Anambra indigenes need to change the negative mentality about the Nigeria Police Force.
There was a certain police doctor from my town. Even though he wasn’t the typical olopa you’d see at checkpoints, he was still paranoid about his involvement with the NPF. Not a lot of people knew he was a police man and this was more than 20 years.

In the next 10-20 years from now, we’d be wondering why northerners are the majority in the police force.

with the way things are going, 10 - 20 years time you may the only igbo person still answering a Nigerian.

2023 will be the deciding year.

Hm

Southerners dey run from curses


Na Navy be the real deal down here....

i do preferred the POLA than recruite

After una go say na Ojoro...

Southerners nor like govt things... But you see this northerners them like put body for anything government... Hence you see them in every government paradtatals

No wonder why the military is dominated by northerners and IGP,COaS,etc, will continue to come mostly from the north.

People dey suffer for this country, may God give us new leader comes 2023 ,who will take this country to enviable heights not this crooks we have now and citizens that will make sure only good leaders are elected

KosiGee:
Anambra indigenes need to change the negative mentality about the Nigeria Police Force.
There was a certain police doctor from my town. Even though he wasn’t the typical olopa you’d see at checkpoints, he was still paranoid about his involvement with the NPF. Not a lot of people knew he was a police man and this was more than 20 years.

In the next 10-20 years from now, we’d be wondering why northerners are the majority in the police force.

which anambrian wants to be a nigerian in the next 10-20 yrs