‘Beware of fake recruitment exercise,’ NNPC warns public
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has warned members of the public to beware of a purported ongoing recruitment exercise being carried out by it, describing it as a scam.
The NNPC has also implored Nigerians to disregard a purported competition making the rounds on social media organised by the NNPC where a winner stands to win USD8,000 prize. exercise .
The spokesman for the agency, Garba Deen Muhammad, in a statement, also denied a competition supposedly organised by the NNPC where a winner stands to win USD8,000, calling it a scam.
He said: “In the purported contest, unsuspecting participants are encouraged to carry out a survey by filling a questionnaire on their knowledge of the company.
“With the eventual winner standing a chance of winning cash reward of up to eight thousand U.S. dollars.
“The NNPC has nothing to do with the purported anniversary event contest and is advising members of the public to decline any participation in the survey as it is a SCAM.
“In the same vein, NNPC would also like to once again inform the public that the information circulating in the Social Media that NNPC is conducting a recruitment exercise IS NOT TRUE and the public should disregard it in its entirety.
“The NNPC hereby reiterates that whenever it decides to conduct a recruitment exercise or send out information to the public, it will do so through authentic public communication channels, particularly the NNPC’s website.”
