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The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has raised alarms about the increasing rate of identity theft impacting individuals and organisations across Nigeria.

The Nigerian telecoms watchdog says it has suffered an identity theft attack on popular social media service, Facebook, raising the bar of high-profile cyber crime.

Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology, has suffered a Facebook identity theft from suspected fraudsters on the social media service. Belema Wakama, Permanent Secretary of the Science and Technology Ministry said ...

Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is raising alarm over a growing underground fraud ring where young Nigerians earn as little as ₦1,500 to harvest personal identification details ...

World Economic Forum (WEF), an international institution for public-private cooperation, has identified that financial institutions can drive an effective digital identity system. In its 2016 report titled “A Blueprint for Digital Identity: ...

When you visit Facebook, you will have no doubt about the influence of Air Chief Marshal AS Badeh, the Chief of Defence Staff of Nigeria, who has garnered a good followership on ...

The Nigeria Police says it has arrested three individuals over their alleged involvement in a sophisticated phishing operation targeting Microsoft 365 users across several countries. The arrests by the Nigeria Police Force ...

Nigeria’s Computer Emergency Response Team (ngCERT) has issued an alert about a new wave of malware, dubbed AdLoad, that is evading Apple’s built-in security measures to hijack browsers and harvest sensitive data ...

Nigeria has flagged 1,368 organisations across diverse sectors of the economy for alleged breaches of the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA), 2023, marking the most sweeping enforcement action yet under the country’s ...

Since Nigeria introduced the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) in 2019 and later strengthened the framework with the 2023 Nigeria Data Protection Act, the country’s data privacy landscape has been undergoing a ...