The Civil Defence, Immigration, Correctional and Fire Service Boards have approved the promotion of 32,361 of personnel of services supervised by the Ministry of Interior.
Reading out the reports of the Board shortly after its meeting in Abuja, the Commandant General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr. Abubakar Audi, stated that the Board met on its 5th meeting for the year 2023, chaired by Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo and approved the promotion of 32,361 personnel across services in the Ministry of Interior.
While reading out the breakdown of the number of personnel across the services, Dr. Audi stated that there is an improvement in the numbers of promoted personnel as against previous year’s exercise, which he attributed to strategy adopted by the Minister.
Dr. Audi, reeled out the detailed numbers of the promoted officers according to each service during the press conference saying “Nigeria Correctional Service a total number of 4,498 personnel have been promoted to the next rank out of seven thousand plus”.
While for Nigeria Immigration Service 4,598 personnel were promoted, he said this cut across various ranks out of 6,544, he expressed satisfaction for the improvement as against last year’s number.
He said for the Federal Fire Service 1,680 out of 1,698 were promoted.
Dr. Audi, said the last agency is Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, which he described the improvement as being very unprecedented.
“This is the first time the corps is having this sizeble number being promoted in the service,” he said.
He said out of about 25,921 that sat for the exams, the Board promoted 21,355 personnel from the NSCDC.
The NSCDC boss thanked the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR for the fatherly support he has given to the Board via the Chairman and also Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo.
He congratulated all the promoted personnel across services and also charged them to do more in the service of the country.