Nigeria Customs Releases Final Recruitment List, What Successful Candidates Must Do Next

(Nigeria Customs. Photo by Punch News)

The Nigeria Customs Service has released the final list of successful candidates in its 2024/2025 recruitment exercise.

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, announced the release of the final list during a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, disclosing that only 3,852 applicants were selected out of 573,680 applications received.

He described the exercise as one of the most competitive in the service’s history.

Candidates who took part in the process can now check whether they were successful and proceed to the next stage of recruitment.

To begin, applicants are advised to visit the official Nigeria Customs Service website, where the announcement on the 2024/2025 recruitment exercise and the final list of successful candidates has been published on the homepage.

Candidates are then expected to check the published list to confirm whether their names appear among those selected, while also verifying the email address and phone number used during registration, as further instructions will be sent through registered email addresses and SMS notifications.

Successful candidates are required to log in to the designated Nigeria Customs update portal using their National Identification Number or registered email address, after which they must upload a valid Medical Certificate of Fitness obtained from a government-recognised hospital.

Customs said this upload must be completed on or before Wednesday, 5 August, 2026.

Applicants are also required to accurately update their current state of residence on the portal before proceeding further, and must then formally accept their provisional appointment by clicking the “Accept Offer” button.

Following this, the NCS said successful candidates would receive their Trainee Identification Number after completing the required online processes, with further details on documentation, physical screening, dates, venues and other requirements to be communicated through the service’s official channels.

In total, the service selected 3,852 successful candidates across its three entry cadres, comprising 1,275 in the Superintendent Cadre, 367 in the Inspectorate Cadre, and 2,210 in the Customs Assistant Cadre, representing an overall success rate of 0.67 per cent from the 573,680 applications received.