Over 573,000 applicants jostle for 3,927 available positions in Customs
Over 573,000 job applicants have submitted applications for 3,927 available positions in the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), barely one week after opening its portal for the 2024/2025 recruitment exercise.
Last week, Finance Minister Olawale Edun announced that the Federal Government had approved the recruitment of 3,927 officers for the NCS.
However, the NCS’s National Public Relations Officer (PRO), Abdullahi Maiwada, in an update on the ongoing recruitment process, said that a total of 573,519 applicants have already applied for the 3,927 vacant positions.
According to the image maker, “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 candidates that 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 (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, Maiwada said, ” we have 153,593 while the support staff we have 14,400.”
Source: The Nation
