The Police Service Commission (PSC) has said the trending publication on Nigerian Police Force (NPF) recruitment Batch B training of the 2022 Constable recruitment starting on February 16, 2025, is fake.
The commission said the publication was planted to cause mischief and mislead innocent young Nigerians who desired to have a career in the police.
A statement yesterday in Abuja by the PSC’s Head of Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, reads: “The attention of the Police Service Commission has been drawn to a trending fictitious and misleading story in the social media on the resumption of training for an imaginary batch B of the 2022 Constable Recruitment.
“The commission is disturbed by the continuous use of the name of its spokesman, Mr. Ikechukwu Ani, on these diversionary publications obviously planted to cause mischief.
“The fictitious publication, captioned: ‘Police Recruitment: Batch B Candidates starts training February 16; PSC/NPF Endorses https://apply.policerecruitment.gov.ng portal-calls on Batch B candidates to stick to it for information.’
“The fraudsters also attached a telephone number 09027314596 where they are expected to fraudulently dupe unsuspecting Nigerian youths.
“The Police Service Commission wishes to distance itself and its spokesman from this obviously misleading and libelous story.
The commission states as follows: that at no time did it discuss, approve or issue any press release on the above phantom publication; that the new recruits are still in training and will be passing out later this month and no decision has been taken on when the next recruitment will commence; that the commission, in line with its standard operating procedures, will issue an official statement on subsequent decision on recruitment for this year.”