The online application portal of the anti-narcotics agency began to experience glitches due to the heavy traffic of over 200,000 applicants trying to access the system barely hours after it was opened on Sunday, March 12.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has sent out a message to candidates seeking to be recruited.

The NDLEA assured candidates seeking to participate in its ongoing recruitment exercise that concerted efforts are being made to resolve challenges they are facing on the application portal with a view to making the process seamless henceforth.

It was gathered that the online application portal of the anti-narcotics agency began to experience glitches due to the heavy traffic of over 200,000 applicants trying to access the system barely hours after it was opened on Sunday, March 12.

Reacting to the incident in a statement obtained by our correspondent on Wednesday, the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, said the system was currently synchronising the data at the back-end of the infrastructure in order to adjust to the server upgrade.

He further noted that the agency upgraded the infrastructure on Tuesday, March 14 to accommodate the large volume of applicants after over 53,170 applicants had successfully logged into the portal.

Babafemi said, “The NDLEA has assured candidates seeking to participate in its ongoing recruitment exercise that concerted efforts are being made to resolve challenges they are facing on the application portal with a view to make the process seamless any moment from now.

“Barely hours after the online application portal was opened on Sunday, March 12, it began to experience glitches due to the heavy traffic of over 200,000 applicants trying to access the system.

“To resolve this, the agency upgraded the infrastructure on Tuesday 14th March to accommodate the large volume of applicants after over 53,170 applicants had successfully logged into the portal.

“At the moment, the system is synchronising the data at the back-end of the infrastructure in order to adjust to the server upgrade. The agency’s management, therefore, wishes to apologise to the applicants for the hitches being experienced and urge them to exercise patience while the system completes synchronisation to serve them better.”