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

The PUNCH reported that the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, revealed that the Federal Government had approved the recruitment of 3,927 Customs officers.

Edun stated this during the 61st quarterly board meeting of the service recently held in Abuja.

This means that 573,519 applied for the space of 3,927 officers.

Giving a breakdown of the application, the National Public Relations Officer of the service, Abdullahi Maiwada said applications were received across the board, “including candidates with university degrees, Higher National Diploma and even secondary school certificates.”

He added that the service has 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,” he said.

According to him, under the Superintendent Cadre Support Staff, 27,722,000 with HNDs and university degrees applied.

He said for the Inspector Cadres, those expected to apply are applicants with National Certificate for Education or National Diploma. He said 115, 634 applied for the general duty, and for support staff, 12, 952 applied.

“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 the basic five credits with Maths and English, and those without Maths and English. For the general duty we have 153,593,000, while for the support staff we have 14,400,” he said.