The Nigeria Customs Service ( NCS) has announced that it received a total of 573,519 applications during it’s just concluded 2025 recruitment exercise.
Recall that the Chairman Board of the NCS led by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Olawale Edun, had approved the recruitment of 3,927 officers for the Service in 2025 as part of effort to facilitate trade and bridge the staff gap.
The recruitment portal which opened from December 27, 2024 to January 2nd, 2025 attracted an unprecedented number of job seekers vying for the various positions including support staff and general duty personnel.
Customs National Public Relations Officer Abdullahi Maiwada who confirmed the total number of applications received gave the breakdown of the applicants across the different ranks and cadres.
He said “I want to break down the number of people that applied, we have two categories of officers, we have the support staff that 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 that applied.
“Under the superintendent cadre support staff cadre, 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 the support staff we have 14, 400.”
