A number of vigilantes came at the police station carrying the goat and saying that the thief, who allegedly tried to steal a Mazda 323 car, used some form of ritual to turn himself into a goat, so as to avoid detection by the police. Authorities announced that the animal is currently in custody, but that they need s... |
24 January 2009
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Trying to benefit from the reputation and authority of certain government institutions is nothing new to online scammers. However, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warns via a publicly available intelligence note that FBI officials in particular have found themselves at the center of several recent spam camp... |
11 December 2008
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A massive vaccination campaign is scheduled to start in Nigeria on November 30th, as the country's number of new polio cases rose again as compared to last year. Currently, the nation is one of the 4 countries in the world – next to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India – not to have eradicated the in... |
26 November 2008
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Type 1 polio could be completely eliminated in Nigeria if the new vaccine reaches enough children in time. This new drug is four times more efficient against all types of polio than any other medication out there today. Considering that Nigeria is one of the last four remaining countries in the world that have not wi... |
16 October 2008
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Hacking computers has always been an illegal activity and, even if attackers risked harsh punishments, they continued to launch attacks on computers from all over the world. However, some of them get caught and once it happens, they probably regret all they did during their hacking "job". This is the case of a Nigeri... |
6 May 2008
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Phishing schemes are quite popular these days because more and more people around the world think that tricking others into disclosing their private financial details and stealing their money is quite a simple method to earn some extra cash. But what they don't know is that once they get caught, they may be forc... |
10 April 2008
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Nigeria has a bad reputation for being involved in countless (really!) scams on the Internet, mostly having something to do with a grieving widow of a general killed in a fight for freedom, and the woman not being able to receive the money he had saved in a bank, several million dollars. I'm sure everybody recei... |
11 March 2008
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Professor Negroponte's initiative of bringing IT into the undeveloped countries has partially failed in Nigeria. We have talked about corporate giants launching poisoned darts at Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project and how they perceive a humanitarian action. Apart from Microsoft and Intel's defe... |
3 December 2007
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Mandriva announced yesterday that the Nigerian government has chosen Intel-powered classmate PCs which run Mandriva Linux for educational use in nationwide pilot program in Nigeria.17,000 Intel-powered classmate PCs will be delivered by Mandriva, Intel Corporation and Technology Support Center Ltd. The project's... |
31 October 2007
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Sony Ericsson has just released their W880i phone model in Nigeria, as to make their products available at a wide scale. This launch is only part of the company's solution for globally expanding their best products.Sony Ericsson W880i has received high appreciation since it has been released. Just a few weeks ag... |
23 May 2007
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