Some applicants shortlisted for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) recruitment exercise were left stranded on Monday as the agency’s online portal crashed during a scheduled pre-exam session. A user identified as Dr Terrific in a post on 𝕏 described the experience as “horrendous.”“Nigerian Customs Service pre–CBT has displayed horrendous error messages since 3 pm set for the exams. Another user, Joe_Akir, lamented that each login attempt was met with a “500 Internal Server Error” message, while Musty said the incident highlighted how “unprepared” the recruitment portal was for a national exercise. How is a national recruitment portal this unprepared? Customs Blames Heavy TrafficAcknowledging the glitches, the NCS, in a post on its official 𝕏 handle, attributed the difficulties to heavy traffic on the portal.