Nigeria’s Oil Company, NNPC Addresses Nigerians Over Its Alleged Recruitment Exercise

For the third in recent times, the nation’s indigenous oil company, NNPC has addressed the members of the public over a recurrent fraudulent vacancy announcements purporting to have emanated from the Corporation.

The Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) has once again called on members of the public to disregard any announcement of recruitment or invitation
to recruitment interview as it is not carrying out any recruitment exercise at the moment.

The disclaimer, the third in recent times, is coming on the heels of recurrent fraudulent vacancy announcements on various social
media platforms purporting to have emanated from the Corporation.

“We are constrained to announce, once again, that NNPC is not recruiting at the moment. Members of the public are,
therefore, advised to disregard any vacancy announcement on any online or social media platform as they are the handiwork of fraudsters intent on fleecing innocent Nigerians”, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu
Ughamadu stated.

Shedding more light on the method of operation of the fake job syndicate, the NNPC explained that the group deploys
various means ranging from text messages, vacancy announcement on social media platforms and forged letters inviting gullible
job seekers for non-existing job interviews with a view to extorting money from them.

“To this end, we wish to once again appeal to members of the public, particularly unsuspecting applicants, to be wary of
fraudulent vacancy announcements or invitations for job interviews at the NNPC
Towers. Anyone who entertains such invitations or deals with peddlers of such invitation does so at his or her own risk,’’
the NNPC stated.

The Corporation advised that anyone contacted for the purpose of the purported recruitment other than through advertisement duly placed by the Corporation in national newspapers, should
not hesitate to report such invitations to relevant law enforcement agencies. It also
pledged to continue to report and engage security agencies on such matters.

The statement further emphasized the determination of the NNPC Management under the leadership of Dr. Maikanti Baru to
sustain the prevailing gale of transparency and accountability which has witnessed the
conduct of open public bidding in sourcing for contractors and suppliers of goods and
services for its day-to-day operations, including recruitment exercises.

Ndu Ughamadu
Group General Manger
Group Public Affairs Division,
NNPC, Abuja.
May 5, 2017.