The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on Sunday December 17, denied carrying out a recruitment exercise as insinuated by some media reports.

FAAN’s general manager, corporate affairs, Yakubu Dati who described the report as false and misleading urged the public to disregard the recruitment rumour.

It was earlier reported that  FAAN planned FAAN planned to employ more staff to boost its operations

According to Dati, the last recruitment exercise took place between March and May, 2015.

The exercise was to recruit officers into the Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting Service (ARFFS), Aviation Security (AVSEC) and Information Communication Technology (ICT) departments.

He explained that the departments had shortage of professional staff and the recruitment exercise was concluded in May 2015.

Dati added that FAAN, at the appropriate time, will invite candidates successful in the exercise for mandatory training before deployment to various airports across the country.

“We wish to emphasis that no recruitment exercise is taking place in FAAN at the moment,” he confirmed.

Dati said it had come to the organisation’s notice that fraudulent recruitment agents and questionable recruitment websites were deceiving people.

“In some cases, these people are duping unsuspecting applicants by giving out misleading information about an ongoing recruitment exercise in FAAN,“ he said.

Source: Naij