Customs confirms over 500,000 applications for 3,927 vacancies

By Godwin Oritse

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, has disclosed that it received 573,523 applications for its 3,927 vacancies.

In a connection by the agency’s spokesman, Mr. Abdullahi Maiwada, said that successful enactment with its statutory mandate to fortify manpower capableness and heighten work delivery, a full of 3,927 vacancies were declared crossed the Superintendent, Inspectorate, and Customs Assistant cadres.

The connection said aft a rigorous documentary scrutiny, 286,697 candidates were invited to proceed to the adjacent phase.

The connection reads:”The Service received a full of 573,523 applications during the archetypal signifier of the exercise. After a rigorous documentary scrutiny, 286,697 candidates were invited to proceed to the adjacent phase. The 2nd signifier of the exercise, scheduled to instrumentality spot from September 14 to 21, 2025, volition beryllium conducted done an online Computer-Based Test, CBT, reflecting the Service’s committedness to transparency, accessibility, and fairness successful the enactment process.

“Candidates shortlisted for the CBT are required to undertake the trial astatine immoderate determination of their choice, provided determination is reliable net access. The workout must, however, beryllium conducted utilizing a laptop oregon desktop machine equipped with a webcam and a full-screen display, arsenic the exertion is not mobile phone-enabled. A facial verification process volition beryllium carried retired during login, therefore, candidates are advised to support a neat quality to debar difficulties with recognition.

“The CBT exertion is delicate to sound and assemblage movement. Accordingly, candidates indispensable stay afloat focused passim the test’s duration, arsenic excessive movement, whispering, oregon inheritance distractions whitethorn effect successful automatic logout by the system.

“In the aforesaid vein, candidates are advised to debar switching betwixt windows during the test, arsenic specified actions volition beryllium flagged arsenic malpractice and whitethorn pb to disqualification.

“To further assistance shortlisted applicants, the Service has made provisions for a mandatory pre-test exercise, which volition beryllium conducted 2 days earlier the existent CBT. This league volition alteration candidates to familiarise themselves with the application. In this regard, 2 abstracted links volition beryllium sent to each shortlisted applicants, 1 for the pre-test and different for the existent examination.

“Candidates who applied for the Superintendent Cadre (Level 8) should enactment that they volition beryllium invited for an further CBT successful the adjacent signifier of the recruitment exercise. This proviso does not use to the Inspectorate and Customs Assistant cadres,” the connection added.

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