Over 573,000 Applicants Scramble For 3,927 Customs Recruitment Jobs

Nigeria Customs Service DG-Adeniyi

LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) yesterday said   that it received 573,519 applications for 3,927 job positions  for its 2024/2025 recruitment exercise, just a week after opening the portal.

Recall that Finance Minister Olawale Edun had earlier confirmed that the Federal Government approved the recruitment of 3,927 officers into the NCS.

Providing an update on the process, Abdullahi Maiwada, the NCS National Public Relations Officer (PRO), revealed that 573,519 applicants had applied for the limited 3,927 positions.

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

“For general duty, we have three categories of ranks. Under the superintendent cadre (general duty), we have 249,218 candidates who applied.

“Under the superintendent cadre (support staff), he said, “We have 27,722 applicants with HNDs and university degrees.

“For the inspector cadre, which includes those expected to apply with a National Certificate in Education (NCE) or a National Diploma, we have 115,634 applicants for general duty and 12,952 for support staff.

“As for the customs assistant cadre, these are applicants expected to apply with secondary school certificates. There are two categories: those who have a minimum of five credits, including Mathematics and English, and those without Mathematics and English.

“For general duty, we have 153,593 applicants, while for support staff, we have 14,400,” Maiwada stated

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