Wed, 21 Aug 2013We've all heard of the perils of complex online job applications irking applicants, but things went one step further in Nigeria this week as would-be civil servants staged a peaceful protest, holding up vehicles in a busy road in the country's capital Abuja.

Wannabe civil servants were protesting against the lack of application forms, notes Nigerian newspaper Leadership, for the ongoing Federal Civil Service recruitment drive.

The spontaneous protest began at around 1pm, with vehicles held up for as much as an hour and a half as the candidates blocked the road.

Police arrived to re-open the road, with assistant commissioner Sunday Odukoya promising to accompany protestors to the National Assembly to make their grievances known.

One protestor told Leadership he had been coming to the civil service office to obtain the jobseekers form since last Wednesday, without success, while another had been queuing since 6.30am, but said no one had attended the keen applicants.