The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, CDCFIB, on Sunday closed its recruitment portal.
The application portal, which opened on Monday, July 14, 2025, officially closed on Sunday, August 10, 2025.
DAILY POST reports that CDCFIB received 1,911,692 applications for just 30,000 vacancies across the four paramilitary agencies under its supervision.
Below is a breakdown, according to states, of over 1.9 million Nigerians that applied for the recruitment into the Civil Defence, Immigration, Correctional and Fire Services.
Kogi – 116,133
Kaduna – 114,507
Benue – 110,536
Kano – 89,362
Niger – 79,510
Kwara – 78,423
Katsina – 76,809
Nasarawa – 76,586
Adamawa – 68,305
Oyo – 67,200
Plateau – 63,393
Osun – 62,356
Borno – 56,907
Ondo – 53,920
Akwa-ibom – 52,474
Bauchi – 52,068
Imo – 48,262
Taraba – 45,147
Gombe – 45,023
Jigawa – 44,416
Ogun – 42,052
Enugu – 41,251
Yobe – 38,122
Kebbi – 34,575
Edo – 33,559
Anambra – 32,910
Ekiti – 32,676
Cross river – 32,188
Abia – 31,684
Sokoto – 31,130
FCT – 30,290
Zamfara – 29,256
Delta – 27,957
Ebonyi – 23,601
Rivers – 22,208
Lagos – 14,215
Bayelsa – 11,669
