Customs Recruitment: 573,519 Apply For 3,927 Jobs

The Nigeria Customs Service has said that it received 573,519 applications in the just-concluded 2024/2025 recruitment exercise, barely a week after the portal was opened.

DAILY POST reports that about a week ago, the Minister of Finance, Mr. Olawale Edun, announced that the recruitment of 3,927 officers has been approved for the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS.

In an update on Tuesday, spokesperson to Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Maiwada, noted that 573,519 applicants applied for 3,927 vacant positions.

“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,” he stated.

Source:- Dailypostng

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