Customs Issues Update on Job Recruitment, Says 573,519 Applications Flooded its Portal

The Nigeria Customs Service has said that it received 573,519 applications in the just concluded 2024/2025 recruitment exercise carried out online via ita recruitment portal.

Cablenews24 reports that according to daily Trend, the National Public Relations Officer of Customs, Abdullahi Maiwada who gave the breakdown of the applications in a chat, said applications were received across board, including candidates with University degrees, Higher National Diploma and even secondary school certificates.

Speaking, he said “I want to breakdown 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 supretendent cadre, we have 249, 218 candidates that applied.

“Under the supretendent cadre support staff cadre, 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 we have 153, 593 while the support staff we have 14, 400”

Recalls that recently, the Minister of Finance, Mr Olawale Edun had said that the recruitment of 3,927 officers have been approved for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).

This means that out of the 573,519 applications, the service is looking forward to employ not less than 3,927 qualified applicants.

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