A number of Nigerian job applicants have taken to Twitter to voice their dismay over Dubai’s new alleged clause, where companies are excluding ‘Nigerians’ from applying for a number of job vacancies in the emirate after the arrest of fraudster Hushpuppi.

This news comes after a series of million-dollar cyber scams and fraud crimes surrounding Hushpuppi and his Nigerian compatriots had been brought to light by the Dubai Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, (FBI). The gang of cyber scammers who obtained large amounts of wealth through fraudulent means were recently extradited to the US after their arrest in Dubai.

Exposing this mega-scam has painted Nigeria in a bad light. Which has led to institutions and organisations around the world putting out discriminatory exclusions that are blatantly rejecting Nigerian job applications, in fear of being scammed.

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On conducting a thorough search to validate these speculations, Lovin Dubai can confirm that many companies have in fact put out such a clause to exclude Nigerian applicants from applying for job vacancies

A particular job search is circulating the web showing that all nationalities are welcome to apply in Dubai ‘except for Nigerians’ followed with the hashtags #BiafraExit and #RejectNigeria

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This is open to conjecture as no local authorities have officially confirmed (nor denied) reports of blacklisting Nigerians from applying for jobs in Dubai.