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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 Computer Emergency Response Team (ngCERT) has issued a cybersecurity advisory warning Nigerians against downloading free Virtual Private Network (VPN) applications and other untrusted software, saying some of the seemingly harmless ...

WhatsApp has begun rolling out global username reservations, introducing a major privacy feature that will allow millions of users, including Nigerians, to connect without revealing their phone numbers. The update marks one ...

The Nigerian Computer Emergency Response Team (ngCERT) has issued a cybersecurity advisory warning Nigerians and organisations across the country about the rising threat posed by stolen email passwords and login credentials. Compromised ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has set an ambitious target to reduce fraud losses in the nation’s digital payments ecosystem to less than one per cent of all transactions by 2028. ...