500,000 Teachers’ Recruitment Portal Crashes On Day One

The recruitment of 500,000 teachers by the Federal Government might have run into a hitch as the website for the exercise crashed on Sunday following what was suspected to be massive applications by prospective candidates.The Federal Government had, last week, announced that the recruitment of

the teachers would commence on Sunday, directing interested Nigerians to apply through http://portal.npower.gov.ng.But attempts by one of Punch correspondents to register on the portal
around 6.48pm on Sunday failed as the website was not available.Checks indicated that the portal might have crashed due to heavy traffic.The website carries a message, “An error occurred. Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable. Please, try again later. If you are the system administrator of this resource, then you should check the error log for details. Faithfully yours, nginx.”When contacted for the number of applications through the website so far, the Special Assistant to the Minister of State for Education, Anthony Akuneme, said it was too early to know the number.He said, “The recruitment process is on. The website has been publicised in the media. It is too early to get the response and number of applicants since it just began.”