The Central Bank of Nigeria, the Nigerian Customs Service and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited are among several other federal agencies that have continued to engage in backdoor recruitment, findings have shown. This is despite the employment embargo imposed by the Federal Government since 2020. SaharaReporters had in November reported that the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) also recruited 70 new staff for the agency without advertising the vacancies.