8,053 Applicants Jostle For NRCRI Jobs

No fewer than 8,053 applicants have applied for employment in the recruitment exercise by the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike, Abia.

The institute had in 2010, advertised for eligible candidates to fill some vacant positions in the organisation.

Some of the vacant positions included Senior Research Officer, Research Officer I, Research Officer II, Information Officer, Admin Officer I, Admin Officer II, Teachers, and Metreologists I and II.

Others are Higher Agriculture Superintendent, Senior Agriculture Superintendent, Accountants I and II, Senior Confidential Secretary and Confidential Secretary.

Our correspondent who monitored the aptitude test on Monday and on Thursday, reports that some of the applicants were apprehensive due to the number of people who turned up.

Some of them wondered why the institute invited such a large number of people for the limited positions advertised.

Meanwhile, a Director in the institute told our correspondent on condition of anonymity, that the institute had already concluded on those to be employed, adding that the test was a mere formality.

He explained that the institute wanted to use the test to regularise the appointments of its part-time workers.