The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said that it received 573,519 applications for its 2024/2025 recruitment exercise.
Minister of Finance, Mr. Olawale Edun, had earlier confirmed that the Federal Government approved the recruitment of 3,927 officers into the NCS.
NCS’s National Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Maiwada, revealed that a total of 573,519 applicants have already applied for the 3,927 vacant positions.
He said the vacancies were for different positions including support and general duty staff.
“For the general duty, we have three categories of ranks. For the general duty under the superintendent cadre, we have 249,218 candidates who applied.
Under the superintendent cadre support staff cadre, he said, “We have 27,722 with HNDs and university degrees.
“For the inspector cadres, those expected to apply with their National Certificate for Education 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, Maiwada said, ”We have 153,593 while the support staff we have 14,400, making a total of 573,000 applications.”
