Army recruitment: 20,000 applicants defy rain to write exam

Determined to be enlisted into the Nigerian Army, over 20,000 applicants, at the weekend, defied a heavy downpour in Calabar, the Cross River state capital, to write recruitment examination.
Nigerian Pilot gathered that the applicants comprised of young men and women, who sat quietly at the 13 Amphibious Brigade of the Nigerian Army, as rain drops pelted their bodies and soaked them right down to their under garments while horse whip bearing soldiers stood on guard.
Despite the rains, the applicants were made to undergo the rigorous screening exercise before being allowed entry into the field at the Brigade headquarters, Akim where they wrote the examination as no hall was big enough to accommodate them.
According to source this year’s rigorous screening exercise of the applicants was to safeguard against any breach in security during the exercise.
They first stood in a long queue, which stretched two kilometres beginning from the gate of the Brigade through Mary Slessor Avenue to Calabar Road.