Customs receives 573,519 applications for 3,927 jobs in one week

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Tuesday, revealed that it received 573,519 applications for the 2024/2025 recruitment exercise, barely a week after the portal was opened.

This development follows the recent announcement by the Minister of Finance, Mr Olawale Edun, that the recruitment of 3,927 officers had been approved for the NCS.

In an update, the NCS spokesperson, Abdullahi Maiwada, provided a breakdown of the applications received, which were submitted for both general duty and support staff positions across various ranks.

“I want to break down the number of people that applied. We have two categories of officers: we have the support staff who are professionals, and we have the general duty.

“For the general duty, we have three categories of ranks. For the general duty under the superintendent cadre, we have 249,218,000 candidates who applied. Under the superintendent cadre support staff, we have 27,722,000 with HNDs and university degrees.

“For the inspector cadres, those expected to apply with their National Certificate for Education (NCE) or National Diploma, we have 115,634 applying for the general duty, and for support staff, we have 12,952.

“As for the customs assistants, these are those who are supposed to come in with secondary school certificates.

There are two categories: those who have basic five-credit results with Maths and English, and those without Maths and English. For the general duty, we have 153,593,000, while for the support staff, we have 14,400,” he stated.