The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced that future recruitment into the agency will be conducted annually rather than at irregular intervals.
Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, disclosed this during a press briefing at the Service’s headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday.
He explained that the move is aimed at establishing a more predictable manpower planning system, allowing the Service to promptly replace retiring personnel while providing young Nigerians with 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.