The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has released the final list of successful candidates for its 2024/2025 recruitment exercise, announcing that 3,852 applicants were selected from 573,680 applications received nationwide.
The Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, disclosed this at a briefing in Abuja on Tuesday.
He said the successful candidates were recruited into the Superintendent, Inspectorate and Customs Assistant cadres, with all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory represented.
Adeniyi also announced that the Service would henceforth conduct recruitment annually to ensure predictable and efficient manpower planning.
‘The Nigeria Customs Service is moving to an annual recruitment cycle. Recruitment will no longer be an occasional event undertaken every several years. It will be a standing, predictable, yearly process,’ he said.
According to him, the 2026 recruitment exercise will begin later this year and be concluded within the same calendar year, from advertisement to publication of the final list.
He said the new system would enable unsuccessful applicants to know when the next recruitment exercise would take place instead of waiting for years without certainty.
The Comptroller-General explained that the screening systems, verification processes and recruitment architecture developed during the just-concluded exercise had now been fully established, making future recruitment faster and more efficient.
‘The delays experienced in this cycle were largely due to the time required to build this system. That process has now been completed,’ he said.
Adeniyi said all applicants underwent several stages of screening, including computer-based tests and verification of credentials against the National Identity Database.
He attributed the delay in concluding the exercise to the large number of applications received and the high rate of retirements among senior management officers.