C'River: 33,955 Jostles for 2,208 Civil Service Jobs As Commission Shortlists 956 Applicants

By Ndifereke BASSEY 

No fewer than 966 applicants have been shortlisted for interview into the Cross River State civil service out of 33,955 candidates have applied to fill the advertised 2,208 jobs.

The document obtained by THE BEAGLE NEWS, dated November 19, 2024 and signed by the Chairman of the commission, Sir Maurice Effiwatt, showed that the number of applications includes 31,818 for the core civil service and 2,137 into the state health sector.

The government had advertised 2,000 and 208 spaces for the core service and the health sector respectively.

According to the document by the commission, from the 31,818 applicants into the core service, only 750 were shortlisted while 206 were from the 2,137 applications were shortlisted for the health sector.

A further breakdown of the figure showed that applications for clerical officers was the highest with 8,358 applicants, followed by administrative officers and messengers with 7,700 and 1,916 applicants respectively.

The three least positions applied for is firemen, drivers and security with the following figure of 370, 401 and 551 applications.

Similarly, in the health sector, applicants for nurses is the highest with 1,184 followed by that of medical laboratory scientists and public health/environmental health that had the figure of 446 and 300.

The respective applicants will be notified of date and time for the interview.