Cruel Mockery of Job Seekers: The Truth Behind Viral ESUT Recruitment Scam as the University Fails to Employ Anyone Since 2023

​It is a heartbreaking tragedy of monumental proportions that in a society where millions of brilliant, hardworking youths and qualified academic professionals walk the streets year after year with shattered dreams, malicious actors choose to weaponize fake news for cruel amusement or exploitation. The recent viral circulation of a detailed recruitment notice—complete with academic ranks, tight application deadlines, and specific faculty requirements—purportedly signed by the university’s registrar, is nothing short of a wicked deception designed to play with the emotions of desperate job seekers.

​The bitter truth that must be told is that this announcement is entirely fictitious. For an esteemed institution like the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), the painful reality is that the management has not opened its doors to employ or absorb a single new staff member from 2023 down to this very day. Departments across the faculties of Law, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Social Sciences, Engineering, and the newly hyped tech fields have languished under profound understaffing and systemic neglect, forced to make do with exhausted, overworked personnel while countless qualified academics watch their futures drift away.

​How long will our brilliant minds be subjected to this endless cycle of false hope? How many more hearts must be broken by phantom job openings that vanish into thin air as soon as they capture public attention? It is an absolute indictment of our administrative framework that genuine employment has become a ghost, while fake vacancy alerts circulate unchecked to mock the tears of unemployed graduates. Job seekers, parents, and well-meaning Nigerians must treat this fake recruitment notice with the utmost caution and disdain it deserves, guarding their hearts against predators who trade on the despair of the helpless.