Cybersecurity experts have stated that the Federal Government’s claim that 12.99 million cyberattacks were recorded during the elections is impossible, Punch reports. According to them, the government needs to explain its claim and allow experts to investigate its systems. On Tuesday, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, disclosed that 12.99 million cyberattacks were recorded during election week. He stated that on the presidential election day (25th February), there were 6.99 million attacks. He explained that the attacks recorded included a series of hacking attempts including Distributed Denial of Service, email and IPS attacks, SSH login attempts,…
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The US government has threatened China-based ByteDance to sell its shares in the blockbuster TikTok app or face a national ban, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Recall western powers, including the European Union and the United States, have been taking an increasingly tough approach to the app, citing fears user data could be used or abused by Chinese officials. Also Read: Belgian Government bans Tiktok on Official Phones The concern here ramped up earlier this year after a Chinese spy balloon was shot down in US airspace. The White House last week welcomed a bill that would allow…
Greece’s journalists went on a 24-hour strike on Wednesday as part of two days of labor unrest this week in protest of the 57-person fatal train accident that occurred last month. The walkout, according to the journalists’ union Poesy, was in favor of the “national demand to assign responsibility for the (train) crime and take all measures” to prevent further casualties. The accident occurred shortly before midnight on February 28 when a passenger train crashed into a freight train in central Greece after both were mistakenly left running on the same track. Most of the passengers were students returning from…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Wednesday, distributed sensitive materials for the governorship and state House of Assembly elections in Oyo State. The distribution was done at the premises of the Central Bank of Nigeria in Ibadan, the state capital. Also Read: INEC debunks having ex-Lagos commissioner as ICT head It was supervised by the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Adeniran Tella, alongside the representatives of different political parties, security agents and other stakeholders. Tella, who addressed newsmen, said, “The commission has built on the success recorded during the last presidential and National Assembly elections. “We have 33…
The federal government has shifted the March 29, 2023 date initially scheduled for the Population and Housing Census to May 2023. During the Federal Executive Council (FEC), which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday at the State House in Abuja, Minister of Communication and Culture Lai Mohammed made this announcement. He said the decision to reschedule was necessitated by last week’s decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reschedule the Governorship and Houses of Assembly elections to March 18. He also said the Council approved N2.8 billion for the National Population Commission (NPC) to…
There was another attack in Southern Kaduna, Zango Kataf to be precise and many residents of the affected communities have relocated. Also, sources said about 6 or 7 people were killed and soldiers came to recover the corpses when they were to be buried on Wednesday morning. Also Read: Bandits attack Kaduna Community, kill one, abduct 23 other A few days ago, an alleged disagreement between Fulani youth and some security personnel, led to skirmishes, and corpses were later recovered in bushes of Zango Kataf Local Government Area. The situation prompted the Local authorities to impose a dusk to dawn.…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has revealed that Americans lost $10.3 billion to numerous internet scams last year. This was disclosed according to an FBI report published this month, stating that losses were the highest in five years. According to ABC News on Tuesday, the Bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) lodged more than 2,000 complaints per day. Phishing, defined as “the use of unsolicited email, text messages, and telephone calls purportedly from a legitimate company requesting personal, financial, and/or login credentials,” is frequently successful because phishing emails will often resemble those from people victims know personally, prompting…
The ministry of Youth and Sports development today hosted the Flying Eagles of Nigeria in the Nation’s capital,Abuja. The Flying Eagles won a bronze medal at the just concluded U-20 AFCON in Egypt after defeating Tunisia in the third place match. The minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare praised the young stars for their efforts and applauded them for winning bronze for the country. He expressed delight with the team while urging the technical team to put in place tactics that would enable the team to score more goals. Dare also promised to visit the team during their training…
Nigeria Envoy Honours Bronze-Medallists Flying Eagles in Egypt The Ambassador of Nigeria to the Arab Republic of Egypt, Ambassador Nura Abba Rimi has honoured the Flying Eagles who won the bronze medals in the just-concluded Africa U20 Cup of Nations tournament in Egypt. Ambassador Rimi received the entourage of the Nigeria U20 boys at the town hall of the Nigeria Embassy in Cairo, Egypt on Saturday. The diplomat expressed satisfaction with the performance of the team during the tournament while congratulating players and officials for successfully qualifying for the forthcoming FIFA U20 World Cup finals in Indonesia. Also Read: Fans…
The Federal Government through the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has revealed that a total of 12,988,978 attacks originating within and outside Nigeria were recorded during the presidential election. According to Pantami, no fewer than 1,550,000 threats to public websites and portals were recorded daily, adding that the figures skyrocketed to 6,997,277 on presidential election day. Also Read: IReV won’t Fail during Guber Polls https://meridianspy.com/2023/03/13/irev-wont-fail-during-guber-polls-inec-says/ A statement on Tuesday by the spokesperson for the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Uwa Sulaiman, noted that during this period, series of hacking attempts were recorded, including Distributed Denial of…
Femi Odubiyi, a former commissioner in Lagos state, has not been appointed as lead Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’a information and communications technology (ICT) division, according to INEC. The former commissioner is allegedly the new head of IT at INEC, according to Bode George, a former vice chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Also Read: INEC to Finalize BVAS reset today, promises Results Transmission George had called on Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, to remove Odubiyi because of his closeness to Bola Tinubu, the president-elect. He also alleged that Odubiyi is a mole “deliberately planted” in INEC to subvert the…
The Labour Party (LP) in Kwara has suspended Basambo Abubakar, the governorship candidate of the party in the state, for alleged anti-party activities. Basambo’s suspension comes in the wake of his endorsement of Shuaib Abdullahi, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara. Speaking with journalists on Tuesday, Kehinde Rotimi, the Kwara LP chairman, said the LP has not joined forces with any party for the governorship and state assembly polls billed for Saturday. Rotimi said Abubakara has no authority to announce the alignment of the LP with another party. He called on supporters of the party to…