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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that its result viewing (IReV) portal was attacked by hackers from Asia during Ekiti and Osun governorship election.  INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this in his keynote address at a stakeholders’ conference on election result management in Abuja on Friday September 9.  Yakubu who stated that INEC recorded several failed attempts to hack the cyber security system of the result viewing portal, also revealed they are working to address other challenges which are administrative in nature. He said;  “Another technical concern for us is the repeated attempts to break through our cyber security system for the portal. “Our engineers reported several cyberattacks on the portal during the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections, some of them from as far as Asia. I am glad to note that all of them failed. “However, while we are confident in the security solutions that we have deployed for IReV and all our web prese...

We killed our friend because he made more money from internet fraud and was always flaunting his success- 28-yr-old suspect confesses A murder suspect, Wahab Hammed, 28, who was recently arrested by men of the Osun state police command, says he conspired with his friend, Adegoke Ayobami, 31, to kill one Oguntade Wasiu because the deceased was making more money than the two of them. While being paraded before newsmen at the state police command on Wednesday, September 7, Hammed said he and Ayobami were friends to the deceased and also engaged in Internet fraud, which fetched Wasiu more money than the two of them. “I am a tailor by profession and I have a shop but I also operate motorcycle for additional income. I am from Modakeke in Adesiyan compound. I also engaged in Internet fraud but I have never hit any money. Wasiu was a friend to Ayobami. I knew him through Ayobami and he was into Internet fraud. He has been into yahoo before our friendship more than a year ago. I and Ayobami kil...

Military Gears, Huge Cash Found In Mamu’s House, Office – DSS In a statement on Thursday in Abuja, DSS spokesperson Peter Afunanya explained that the military gears and cash were among the incriminating items found by operatives who conducted a search of Mamu’s properties.  “So far, appropriate security agencies have executed valid search warrants on Mamu’s residence and office,” he said while giving an update on Mamu’s arrest. “During the processes, incriminating materials including military accouterments were recovered. “Other items include large amounts in different currencies and denominations, as well as financial transaction instruments. While further investigations continue, Mamu will, sure, have a day in court.” Mamu, one of the leading negotiators for the release of victims of the train attack in Kaduna State, is also the spokesman for Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi. He was said to have been arrested on Tuesday by INTERPOL at the Cairo International Airport...

       Community In Shock As Landlord’s Skeleton Is Found In His Room 4 Years After Last seen THE Adeosun/Idi Orogbo Community in Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State was thrown into shock on Sunday when they found of one of their landlords, Mr John Aderemi Abiola, in his room, almost four years after he was last seen in December 2018. The discovery was made after the community decided, with the approval of the police authorities, to go into his compound to clear the bush in his compound which had overgrown his fence into the next house, causing invasion by reptiles. As 2019 crept into 2020, the residents started wondering where the man could be. Though he told about two of those he used to communicate with of his intention to go to Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and be back for Ileya ceremony in 2018, not seeing him for the festivity and thereafter made them to think he was staying back where he initially came from. Calls to his phone lines were not going through o...

Queen Elizabeth: US Varsity Distances Self From Uju Anya’s Tweet Carnegie Mellon University in the United States of America, where Nigerian-born professor, Uju Anya, teaches, has distanced itself from her recent tweet on the death of Queen Elizabeth. While the Queen was under medical supervision at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on Thursday, Anya had expressed her wish for the 97-year-old British monarch to have ‘excruciating’ pain in a tweet, which has now been deleted by Twitter for violating its rules. Her tweet generated a lot of reactions on Twitter, with billionaire, Jeff Bezos, slamming her for it. In a post on its handle on Thursday, the university described Anya’s tweet as “offensive and objectionable” and distanced itself from it. The terse tweet read, “We do not condone the offensive and objectionable messages posted by Uju Anya today on her personal social media account. Freedom of expression is core to the mission of higher education, however, the views she shared absolutely ...