43+ min ago  (321+ words) Every day, Nigerians visit the government websites of five of six states in Nigeria's South-South geopolitical zone to access services, submit contact requests, read news releases and engage with their state governments online. They type in their names, phone numbers,…...

19+ hour, 21+ min ago  (530+ words) The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has identified weak digital infrastructure, poor coordination and fragmented governance as key reasons Nigeria is losing revenue in the mining sector. But FIJ can report that the agency's own website has had a…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1387+ words) Charitable donations, giveaways, scholarship payouts and even winnings from legitimate online games happen every day on social media. In Nigeria, many of these interactions end with the same request: "Drop your account number." Because digital banks and mobile money platforms…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (520+ words) The official website of the Federal Judicial Service Commission has left its website vulnerable to cyberattacks by running on outdated server infrastructure that falls below modern security standards, FIJ has observed. An error message currently visible on the site reads:…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (639+ words) NITDA, in its Standards and Guidelines for Government Websites, mandates such platforms to have privacy policies displayed. FIJ is aware that the objective of the guidelines is to improve the quality, reliability, accuracy and accessibility of online information pertaining to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (642+ words) The online database of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has been hacked by Byte To Breach, a dark web hacker who recently compromised customer data on payment platform Remita. This intrusion once again exposes the weaknesses that many state-controlled websites,…...

1+ mon, 14+ hour ago  (14+ words) No Compensation 6 Years After Businessman's Goods Got 'Burnt' in Ekesons Transport's Custody'FIJ NG...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (946+ words) The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the National Examinations Council (NECO), the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS), four of Nigeria's big data-collecting agencies, are doing their privacy disclosures wrongly and violating the rights of…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1580+ words) Bytetobreach, an underground hacker gaining traction on the dark web, claimed responsibility for hacking Remita, a Nigerian payment processing technology. After making the claim on Tuesday, the dark web actor published what appeared to be KYC documents, identity records, screenshots…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (523+ words) The Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) has renewed the expired security certificate of its official website. The renewal followed an FIJ's story detailing how the website's secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate had expired for 50 days without being…...