Earlier today, a friend sent me a web address purportedly meant for the Nigeria Police Force Recruitment. I wasn't surprised to see that. Afterall, since the announcement of possible recruitment of tens of thousands of citizens into the police force was made on Wednesday, some fraudulent Nigerians had flooded the streets of Lagos with job adverts about that asking people to call certain numbers. Lagosians would understand what I mean here better.

Let's focus now on the main issue here, the 'recruitment website'. The official website of the Nigerian Police Force is https://www​.npf.gov.ng/ while the one being circulated is www.nigeriapolice.org/recruitment/

The creator of that facade did a 'good' assignment of linking back to the official website of the police force. That may convince some people to think they are genuine. Don't be deceived! There has been no official advert beyond the news report that followed President Buhari's meeting with officials of the Ministry of Police Affairs, the Nigeria Police Force and the Police Service Commission.

All government-run/owned websites I know of have the .gov.ng appendage but not that purported 'recruitment website'. You may run a Google search on the said website and find it top of your search results. That doesn't give credibility to it. I ran a domain check on the two sites to lend credence to this position of mine on whois.net. The is no data about nigeriapolice.org but there is on npf.gov.ng.

Another redflag is that there's no list of positions nor job description on the said page. I'd previously assisted some colleagues through their Nigerian military registration online and could remember seeing respective positions and job descriptions there. That's not the same in this instance.

Whenever the Nigeria Police Force decides to recruit officers and men into their workforce, they will advertise appropriately using their official website. Fraudsters are out there. Masu gudu su Gudu! Correct me if I'm wrong!

- Abdussalam Amoo