The first phase of the ongoing recruitment exercise by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which kicked off via nationwide advertisements in the national dailies and online media on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, ended midnight on Tuesday with the closure of the corporation’s application portal.

A release Wednesday in Abuja by the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, said the second phase of the exercise involving shortlisting of qualified candidates had started, explaining that the qualified ones among them would be invited to participate in a computer-based aptitude tests.

Mr. Ughamadu said in the release that tests would be administered in about 50 centres across the country, adding those who emerge successful in the tests would subsequently be invited for oral interviews for final selection.

NNPC, which offers equal opportunity employers in the Oil and Gas Industry value chain, including exploration, refining, transportation and marketing of petroleum products, recently placed advertisements to recruit some categories of new hands to buoy its operations nationwide.

These are: Graduate Trainee, Senior officer and Supervisory cadres as well as Managerial cadre.