There is a circulating report claiming that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Superintendents Cadre List has a total of 1,785 candidates shortlisted for the final stage of the Computer-Based Test (CBT).
A verified Facebook account belonging to Senator Ahmad Babba Kaita made this claim, stating that the NCS Superintendents Cadre List includes the shortlisted applicants from each state. According to him, “This is the Nigeria Customs Service 2025 recruitment Superintendents Cadre list. Total number of 1,785 were shortlisted for the CBT. Only Lagos has 207 and Kano State has 31.”
The post also stated that “Superintendents Cadre List total of 1,785 were shortlisted for the last stage of the CBT. Total number of candidates per state for the last phase of the exams holds on the 14th Oct 2025.”
The post detailed the number of shortlisted candidates per state as follows: Abia – 28, Adamawa – 23, Akwa Ibom – 29, Anambra – 28, Bauchi – 21, Bayelsa – 36, Benue – 20, Borno – 38, Cross River – 28, Delta – 28, Ebonyi – 20, Edo – 29, Ekiti – 93, Enugu – 28, Gombe – 16, Imo – 13, Jigawa – 18, Kaduna – 28, Kano – 31, Katsina – 20, Kebbi – 13, Kogi – 78, Kwara – 173, Lagos – 207, Nasarawa – 28, Niger – 25, Ogun – 145, Ondo – 132, Osun – 127, Oyo – 108, Plateau – 29, Rivers – 27, Sokoto – 28, Taraba – 17, Yobe – 9, Zamfara – 16, and FCT (Abuja) – 48.
However, the Nigeria Customs Service has not officially acknowledged or verified this claim, and the public is advised to treat the information with caution as it may not reflect the actual recruitment figures.