The Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment examination took place on Saturday in Abuja in spite of the deaths of seven applicants at the centre.
Three others died in the Minna, Niger State centre.
In Port Harcourt, Rivers State, a pregnant woman and two others were confirmed dead while struggling to get into the venue of the examination at the Liberation Stadium.
The examination in Abuja, which started at 4pm, some candidates said, was characterised by a lot of irregularities.
One of the applicants, Gloria Okon, said that the Nnamdi Azikwe National Stadium, Abuja, was jam-packed with the applicants.
Okon said that many applicants, who could not find their way into the venue, wrote the examination outside the stadium.
Okon said she came before 7am but could not enter inside the stadium because of the surging crowd.
She said she and her colleagues entered the stadium for examination after the stampede.
She said the examination was conducted in batches: B.Sc, HND, OND, NCE and SSCE, adding that candidates struggled for question papers in all the batches.
Another applicant, Monday Iju, who sustained injuries on his ankle during the stampede, said he managed to write the examination in spite of the injury because he needed the job at all cost.
Iju prayed to be among the candidates that would eventually secure employment through the exercise.
Charles Ameh, another candidate, said he had to struggle with another candidate, who had about five question papers with him before he could get his own.
Yahaya Ismael, another candidate, said he could not withstand the stress, adding that he and his friends had to go back home because they lost confidence in the examination.
Ismael said: “I did not write the examination because of the way it was conducted.
“They asked us to come early but refused to open the gate.
“I left the venue of the exercise at 2pm when I discovered that there was no proper coordination.
“The crowd was too much I am sure they were just suffering people to justify the money they collected from people.”
NAN reports that some victims of the stampede with minor injuries have received medical attention as outpatients in some hospitals in the FCT and discharged.
At the General Hospital, Asokoro, Dr. Austin Ejembi, the doctor on duty at the casualty unit, said that the hospital treated 18 people.
Ejembi, however, said that there was no loss of life, adding none of the victims was admitted.
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