Following President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval for the recruitment of five thousand personnel to boost the man power of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, the Agency says it has released the list of successful applicants in its ongoing recruitment exercise.

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency spokesman, Deputy Commander of Narcotics, Mr. Jonah Achema, announced this in a statement made available to News men on Friday in Abuja.

Mr. Achema urged successful candidates to visit the agency’s websitewww.ndlea.gov.org for the list adding that those shortlisted had also been contacted via E-mail and SMS.

According to him, the candidates had applied for different vacancies, some of which were invited for a job competency test.

The affected candidates, numbering five thousand are to appear at the Agency’s Academy, Citadel Counter-Narcotics Nigeria, Katton-Rikkos, Jos, Plateau State, for the screening and documentation exercise between January tenth and twenty-three, 2021 at nine hours daily.

The candidates are divided into four different groups for the screening, in adherence to the COVID-19 pandemic protocol.

The order and schedule for the exercise according to the group into which the candidates fall are also indicated and they are expected to arrive a day ahead of their screening period.

He added that successful candidates were expected to be issued letters of appointment and documented immediately upon successful screening.

According to Mr. Achema candidates are, therefore, to report for the screening exercise with their guarantors’ forms, originals and duplicates of academic credentials, birth certificate or age declaration and indigene certificates.

They are also expected to come along with a certificate of medical fitness from a government hospital as well as a pair of shorts, T-shirts, canvass and stockings.