PHOTOS: N-Power Website Crashed Less Than 10 Minutes Of Accepting Application

The norm for government websites crashing during application process for recruitment and other public interest programs may have come to stay just as the website for the N-Power program, npower.gov.ng witnessed a technical error few minutes after the portal opened for application.


At 12:05 AM, just 10 minutes after it opened for application, an error message displayed: “Thank you for visiting this site and for your interest in N-Power programme. There is an unprecedented level of interest. Please re-visit shortly”.
The website is expected to accept morethan three million applications within the period and the fact it is crashing early on is a cause to worry about.
Same challenge occurred during the police service application which crashed many times before it was rectified.

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.”
President Muhammadu Buhari had, in his Democracy Day speech, said the recruitment of the teachers would commence on June 12.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, also stated that the recruitment would be done online.
Akande, in a statement last Wednesday, said the 500,000 Teacher Corps, nicknamed N-Power Teach on the portal, was one of the three direct job creation and training schemes established by the current administration.
Others, according to him, are N-Power Knowledge, which will train 25,000 Nigerians in technology, and N-Power Build, which will train another 75,000 in building services, construction, utilities, hospitality and catering, automotive vocation, aluminium and gas services.
He explained that all trainees would be paid for the duration of their training.
Akande added, “The N-Power Teacher Corps initiative, which will engage and train 500,000 young unemployed graduates, is a paid volunteer programme of two-year duration.”