{"id":72803,"date":"2025-08-11T15:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72803"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:29:19","slug":"kogi-leads-paramilitary-recruitment-with-116000-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/11\/kogi-leads-paramilitary-recruitment-with-116000-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi Leads Paramilitary Recruitment with 116,000 Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kogi State topped the recently concluded paramilitary recruitment exercise with 116,188 applications, the highest from any state in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Figures released on Monday by the Civil Defence, Corrections, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), placed Kaduna and Benue in second and third positions with 114,551 and 110,583 applications, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The three states accounted for a significant share of the nationwide total of 1,911,377 applications.<\/p>\n<p>The data also revealed wide disparities in participation, with Lagos recording 14,216 applicants and Bayelsa the lowest at 11,669.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers and Ebonyi also posted low figures.<\/p>\n<p>Shortlisted candidates will be contacted soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApplicants are advised to monitor their emails, text messages, and the official recruitment portal for updates,\u201d the CDCFIB stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Kogi State topped the recently concluded paramilitary recruitment exercise with 116,188 applications, the highest from any state in the country. Figures released on Monday by the Civil Defence, Corrections, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), placed Kaduna and Benue in second and third positions with 114,551 and 110,583 applications, respectively. The three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72805,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72803\/revisions\/72805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}