The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has revealed that it received a staggering 573,519 applications for the 3,927 vacancies announced in the 2024/2025 recruitment exercise.
This announcement came shortly after the closure of the application portal.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Abdullahi Maiwada, the National Public Relations Officer of the NCS, provided details on the breakdown of the applications.
He explained that the recruitment was for various positions, including both support and general duty staff, and that the process had been smooth and thorough.
Maiwada further detailed the categories of applicants: “For the general duty positions, under the superintendent cadre, we received 249,218 applications,” he said.
For the superintendent cadre in the support staff category, 27,722 candidates with HNDs or university degrees applied.
He also highlighted the applications for the inspector cadre positions, requiring National Certificate in Education or National Diploma, which attracted 115,634 applicants for general duty and 12,952 for support staff.
For customs assistants, those applying with secondary school certificates were divided into two groups: one with at least five credits including Maths and English (153,593 applications) and another without those two subjects (14,400 applications).
The total number of applications amounted to 573,000, a reflection of the high demand for the 3,927 positions.
Last week, Wale Edun, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, had announced that the federal government had approved the recruitment of the 3,927 officers to fill gaps and improve the efficiency of the NCS in trade facilitation.
