18 die in immigration recruitment exercise
About 18 job seekers died and many were injured on Saturday during a nationwide recruitment test conducted by the Nigeria Immigration Service. The applicants reportedly paid the sum of N1,000 as application fee. Millions of job seekers had thronged venues of the exercise, mostly stadia, for the exercise. Seven were confirmed dead after a stampede at the National Stadium, Abuja, venue of the exercise in the Federal Capital Territory. The 60,000-seater stadium was filled up. Each candidate was required to wear a white T-shirt, boxer shorts, socks and tennis shoe for the exercise. The candidates, our correspondent gathered, were tested in logical reasoning, English language and mathematics.