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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Monday, September 22, 2025, commenced its scheduled Pre-Test exercise for applicants shortlisted under the Superintendent cadre recruitment, but the process was disrupted by server errors, News360 Nigeria reports.

The exercise, which was fixed for 3:00 p.m., was designed to help candidates familiarise themselves with the system ahead of the main computer-based test (CBT). However, several applicants reported difficulty accessing the platform due to technical hitches.

In its earlier statement on X, the NCS explained that a dedicated link would be sent to all shortlisted applicants, requiring them to complete their log-in procedures and undergo facial verification before starting the exercise. Candidates were also instructed to read guidelines 30 minutes prior and to click the START button once the allotted time elapsed.

But with the server failure, many participants could not proceed, raising concerns over the smooth conduct of the recruitment process.

The NCS had recently disclosed that 286,697 candidates were invited for the CBT across the Superintendent, Inspectorate, and Assistant cadres, competing for only 3,927 available slots.

The Service also clarified that applicants under the Superintendent Cadre (Level would still participate in another CBT at the next phase of recruitment.

The Service is yet to issue an official statement addressing the technical challenges that marred Monday’s Pre-Test.

Applicants, meanwhile, have expressed frustration and await fresh directives from the authorities.

See some reactions below:

@Nakamura on X wrote: Nigeria Na cruise, rdinary pre test ooo

@space wrote: God is this not the village people at work like this my friend has started mine is still showing an error

Si6_x3 wrote: Have being on this page for over a 10mins have been unable to pass the verification

@space wrote: I won’t be surprised if @CustomsNG tweet that 10k people successfully completed the pretest and they will be the one to get a link for the second test. Because na wetin Nigeria ft pull with the way we plenty so

CruiseMaster Wrote: i can’t stay all day in a place just to reload an unresponsive page, please NCS address us , so i can get to leave here and go do other things, the day is still young.

CalabarSamurai:
Sometimes I wonder where Nigerians get their faith in government from? do you guys really think this is for real ?

Gadaffi9ja:
We are basically not ready for the cbt thing, and they are pushing all exams to it.

CalabarSamurai:
Sometimes I wonder where Nigerians get their faith in government from? do you guys really think this is for real ?

Gotocourt:
My brother couldn't take his own. Omo Japa and leave Nigeria headache

oluwamichael93:
earlier today, while reloading the email sent to me, i got this message.

Emnyte:
Can't they host on AWS? It's time someone invested heavily in giant Data centers and cloud infrastructures in this country they will make lots of money because even the government will use it. Imagine a whole federal government can't set up an ordinary server properly with all that resources at their disposal 🤦 it's shameful

Tayorshd87:
My brother I tire oo probably they don't want to hire a professional to do the job.

AWS was what is needed here and not just a mere server that can't source a heavy data pre test