NO fewer than 1000 job-seekers yesterday thronged
the premises of the Lagos State Secretariat,
Alausa, to submit applications for employments
in to the state‘s civil service.
Vanguard gathered that the applicants trooped
into the secretariat as early as 8:00 am, to submit
their completed application forms at the Lagos
Civil Service Commission, building.
However, a good number of the applicants were seen
making frantic efforts to obtain their application
forms, seeking enquiries and help from those who
had already completed theirs.
Owners of business centres within Alausa
secretariat had a field day, as applicants patronise
their outlets to make photocopies of their
documents and took passport photographs.
One of the applicants, Mr. Bolaji Samuel said he
had applied for a job in the state‘s civil service in
the hope of getting something better than his
present marketing job.
According to Samuel, “At present I work as a
marketer but I must confess it is not better than a
menial job as it is strenuous and hardly gives me
any reward or satisfaction.”