This poster on Facebook, supposedly inviting applications for jobs with Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is fake.

EFCC is a Nigerian state agency mandated to eradicate economic and financial crimes in the country.

The advertisement claims that the recruitment runs from July to October 2023 but does indicate the purported vacancies.

But is it authentic?

Although the advert has EFCC branding, it does not appear on the commission’s website or its official Twitter account and Facebook page.

On 17 July 2023, EFCC issued a statement disowning the poster and urged Nigerians to disregard it.

According to the agency, all its vacancies are posted on its official website.

PesaCheck examined a poster on Facebook supposedly inviting applications for jobs with Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and found it to be FAKE.

This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.

By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.

Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.

This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Rodgers Omondi and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Cédrick Irakoze and acting chief copy editor Francis Mwaniki.

The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editor Doreen Wainainah.

PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org.

PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organisations.