UNEMPLOYED NIGERIANS FLOOD, CRASHES POLICE WEBSITE

Following the announcement of enlistment into the Nigeria Police Force, swarms of unemployed Nigerians and other potential candidates stormed the two online police portals for the registration.


The huge amount of traffic witnessed by www.psc.gov.ng and www.npf.gov.ng, forced the portals to crash and according to Punch Newspapers, they both remained inaccessible for most part of Friday, April 1.

Many interested candidates complained of being unable to register stating that most of them got the error message - “This Account has been suspended. Contact your hosting provider for more information," from the website.

Although it was reported that the www.npf.gov.ng platform of the NPF was not in commission for 10 hours, police sources were quoted to have said about 8,000 candidates had registered as of 2pm yesterday.

“Candidates started registering online from 4am on Friday when the portals opened for registration; as of 2pm, over 8,000 candidates had registered online. The traffic was huge and this explains why many applicants could not access the websites because the servers were down.”

Meanwhile, the Head of Press and Public Relations, PSC, Ikechukwu Ani, said the commission’s technical team was working on the servers to address the hitches.

“I have notified our technical team and they are working on the servers, all the hiccups would be addressed and candidates would find it easier to file their applications. I believe the issues we are experiencing were caused by the traffic from the huge number of applicants.”

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