{"id":59135,"date":"2025-01-07T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59135"},"modified":"2025-01-07T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:42:10","slug":"nigeria-customs-service-recruitment-attracts-over-573000-applicants-for-3927-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/07\/nigeria-customs-service-recruitment-attracts-over-573000-applicants-for-3927-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Customs Service Recruitment Attracts Over 573,000 Applicants for 3,927 Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has received an overwhelming 573,519 applications for its 2024\/2025 recruitment exercise, just a week after opening the portal.<\/p>\n<p>The recruitment, approved by the Minister of Finance, Mr. Olawale Edun, aims to fill 3,927 positions, underscoring intense competition for the limited slots.<\/p>\n<p>Providing an update on Tuesday, NCS spokesperson Abdullahi Maiwada disclosed that 249,218 candidates applied for general duty positions under the superintendent cadre, while 27,722 applications were received from HND and degree holders for support staff roles within the same category.<\/p>\n<p>The inspector cadre, requiring a National Certificate for Education (NCE), or a National Diploma, recorded 115,634 applications for general duty positions and 12,952 for support staff.<\/p>\n<p>The customs assistant cadre, which requires a secondary school certificate, saw the highest turnout, with 153,593 applications for general duty roles and 14,400 for support staff.<\/p>\n<p>With only 3,927 vacancies available, the recruitment process is set to be highly competitive, as less than one percent of applicants will secure a position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has received an overwhelming 573,519 applications for its 2024\/2025 recruitment exercise, just a week after opening the portal. The recruitment, approved by the Minister of Finance, Mr. Olawale Edun, aims to fill 3,927 positions, underscoring intense competition for the limited slots. Providing an update on Tuesday, NCS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":59136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-59135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59137,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59135\/revisions\/59137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}