The website of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has crashed amid the commencement of a recruitment exercise.
Checks by DAILY POST on Monday found that the agency’s website indicated ‘500 internal server errors.
The agency’s recruitment application began on Sunday and was expected to last for two weeks.
However, for hours now, applicants cannot access the website.
When our correspondent contacted the Director of Media and Advocacy of the agency, Femi Babafemi; he confirmed the development but explained that it was due to glitches resulting from traffic on the website.
“The portal never crashed. There are glitches due to the huge number of applicants trying to access the platform simultaneously, but our technical team is resolving that before noon”, he stated.
In a related development, No fewer than 793 suspects were apprehended by the operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), last year.
Kabir Tsakuwa, the Commander of the NDLEA in FCT, while addressing newsmen during a grassroots sensitisation and awareness campaign on the dangers of illicit drugs on Tuesday, also confirmed that the NDLEA seized 13,125kg of illicit drugs in the country’s capital.
The sensitisation was led by Dr Ngozi Madubuike, the Director, Drug Demand Reduction, NDLEA.
According to him, in the past year, 13,125kg of different drug substances were seized, saying that the breakdown of the seized drugs included 12,660.3kg of cannabis sativa.
Others, he explained, included 21.957kg of cocaine, 0.008kg of heroin and 443.693kg of different psychotropic substances.
Seventy-eight persons, comprising 74 males and four females with drug use problems were successfully counselled and rehabilitated within the same period.
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