Nigeria Customs to begin yearly recruitment

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, says its future recruitment will be on yearly basis instead of at irregular intervals.

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, announced this during a press briefing at the Service’s headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday.

According to him, the decision was part of efforts to create a predictable manpower planning system that would enable the Service to replace retiring officers promptly while giving young Nigerians regular opportunities to join the organisation.

Adeniyi stated that the Nigeria Customs has moved away from a recruitment model under which applicants had to wait several years before another opportunity became available.

The Comptroller-General explained that the new structure would make recruitment a continuous process, with the 2026 exercise expected to commence later this year.

He added that Customs Service now has the systems, screening framework and verification processes required to conduct future recruitment exercises more efficiently.

“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.

“The 2026 Recruitment Exercise will open later this year, and it is my firm intention that it will be completed within a single calendar year, from advertisement to final list,” he said.