Nigeria Customs Recruitment Current Affairs Questions and Answers
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) recruits through an online, webcam-proctored computer-based test. In the 2025 exercise 573,523 people applied for 3,927 vacancies across the Superintendent, Inspectorate and Customs Assistant cadres, and 286,697 were shortlisted for tests that ran in cadre-specific waves from mid-September to 14 October 2025. The paper mixes English, mathematics, general knowledge and Customs knowledge. Below: the NCS facts examiners ask — the Comptroller-General, the Customs Act 2023, the supervising ministry — and the national current-affairs set.
Numbers as published by the NCS and reported by Punch, Guardian Nigeria and Premium Times. The 2025 test did not sit in a single block: online-test invitations went out around 10–11 September, the Superintendent pre-test held on 22 September and the junior cadres’ final sitting on 14 October 2025. The only application portal is vacancy.customs.gov.ng.
How current affairs is tested
The NCS test is taken remotely on a laptop or desktop with a working webcam and a stable connection — the application is not phone-enabled. The Service did not publish an official question count or duration, so none is stated here. Reported sections are English language, mathematics, general knowledge (which is where current affairs sits) and Customs knowledge.
Customs knowledge questions lean on the Service’s own structure: the Comptroller-General and the ministry it reports to, the Nigeria Customs Service Act 2023 that replaced the old Customs and Excise Management Act, the three recruitment cadres, and revenue and anti-smuggling duties. The national set — President, National Assembly leaders, CBN Governor, independence date, states, LGAs, senators, budget — is asked exactly as in police and paramilitary tests.
Nigeria Customs Service facts every candidate should know
Officeholders are as of September 2026. The Service’s colonial founding year is widely cited as 1891 but did not clear our two-source check, so it is not asserted here.
| Fact | Answer |
|---|---|
| Comptroller-General of Customs | Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, in office since June 2023 |
| Supervising ministry / minister | Federal Ministry of Finance · Taiwo Oyedele, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy |
| Governing law | Nigeria Customs Service Act 2023, which replaced the Customs and Excise Management Act |
| Headquarters | Abuja |
| Recruitment cadres | Superintendent, Inspectorate and Customs Assistant |
| 2025 recruitment numbers | 573,523 applications; 286,697 shortlisted; 3,927 vacancies |
| Recent leadership change | September 2026: the Customs Board approved a new Deputy Comptroller-General (Constantine Dim) and five Assistant Comptrollers-General |
| Official portal | vacancy.customs.gov.ng |
Customs current affairs questions and answers
Part A is Customs-specific; Part B is the national set drawn live from our verified Q&A bank.
Part A · Nigeria Customs Service
1. Who is the current Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service?
2. Which ministry supervises the Nigeria Customs Service?
3. What is the title of the head of the Nigeria Customs Service?
4. Which law currently governs the Nigeria Customs Service?
5. What are the three cadres in Customs recruitment?
6. How many people applied in the 2025 Nigeria Customs recruitment?
7. How many vacancies were declared in the 2025 Customs recruitment?
8. How is the Nigeria Customs recruitment test conducted?
9. When did the Superintendent cadre pre-test hold in the 2025 exercise?
10. What is the official Nigeria Customs recruitment portal?
11. Where is the headquarters of the Nigeria Customs Service?
Part B · National current affairs every candidate is asked
12. Who is the current minister of finance in Nigeria?
13. What is the full meaning of EFCC?
14. Who is the current EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) Chairman?
15. Who is the current president of Nigeria?
16. Who is the current vice president of Nigeria?
17. Who is the current Senate President in Nigeria?
18. Who is the current Nigerian Deputy Senate president?
19. What is the name of the current speaker of the House of Representatives?
20. Who is Nigeria’s current chief justice of the Supreme court?
21. What is the name of the current CBN Governor?
22. The current INEC chairman?
23. When did Nigeria have its independence?
24. How many Local Government Areas do we have in Nigeria?
25. How many senators make up the National Assembly of Nigeria?
26. How many geopolitical zones are there in Nigeria?
27. What is Nigeria’s motto?
28. The Nigerian flag was designed by who?
29. The first line of the new Nigerian Anthem is ___
30. What year did "Arise, O Compatriots" stop being Nigeria's national anthem?
31. Who wrote the Nigerian National Pledge?
32. Who was the first president of Nigeria?
33. Who was Nigeria’s first prime minister?
34. The first governor-general of colonial Nigeria was?
35. When was the Federal Capital Territory created?
36. When did Nigeria's federal capital officially move from Lagos to Abuja, and who declared the move?
37. The largest state in Nigeria by landmass is?
38. Which is the Nigerian state with the highest population?
39. When was the Nigerian Naira introduced?
40. When did Nigeria join the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?
41. In what year was ECOWAS founded?
42. In what year did Nigeria join the United Nations?
43. How much is Nigeria's 2026 federal budget?
44. What is Nigeria's current national minimum wage (2024)?
45. What is the minimum age to run for President of Nigeria?
46. When was the Central Bank of Nigeria established?
Keep preparing
Check recall with the timed quiz, then revise the full Q&A bank. For the general-knowledge section, the Ministers and Parastatals lists cover the names most often asked.
Frequently asked questions
Is Nigeria Customs recruitment open in 2026?
What subjects are in the Customs CBT?
Who is the Minister of Finance?
Sources: Nigeria Customs Service official statements (customs.gov.ng); Punch, Guardian Nigeria, Premium Times, Nairametrics and Vanguard reports on the 2025 recruitment CBT and the Customs Act 2023. Agency heads and ministers are re-verified against the site’s facts ledger; the last full check is shown in the verified line above.