The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) has asked candidates who reached the oral interview stage of its ongoing recruitment exercise to check the portal on October 28 to know their status.
It said the portal will remain open until November 13.

The Secretary to the Board, Retired Major-General Abdulmalik Jibrin, disclosed this after the board’s meeting on Thursday, October 22, 2026.

“The board has considered and also has agreed, since candidates have been waiting, by 28th of October, the portal for the candidate will open…and this portal will open from 28th October to 13th November,” Jibrin said.

He said candidates are to check their status on the portal and proceed for a mandatory drug test with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.

The test is in line with a Federal Government directive that every employee due for an appointment letter must submit a certificate clearing them of illegal drug use.

“For candidates who have reached so far as to the oral interviews, to check their status and select and attend a mandatory drug test with the NDLEA in keeping with the Federal Government directive that every employee that has gone to get an appointment letter must submit the document alongside a certificate that clears him free of use of illegal drugs.

“So, the portal will open 28th October up to 13th November for people to check their status and then take a code and proceed to their respective state where the NDLEA office is and present themselves for a mandatory drug test.

“It’s after that that they will all converge in Abuja to collect their letters of appointment, and that is the documentation. So, you must come along with your certificate of freedom from drug abuse before you collect your letter,” he said.

The board oversees recruitment into the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, the Nigerian Correctional Service, the Federal Fire Service and the Nigeria Immigration Service. The portal opening follows months of delays in the recruitment exercise.