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A Nigerian man called James Ibori is about to be sentenced by a United Kingdom court after pleading guilty to money laundering, conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to make false instrument, and other fraud-related charges.
According to The Telegraph, Ibori may be 49, or 53 (judging by the ... |
17 April 2012
05:09 GMT |
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Hacktivists part of TeaMp0isoN continue their operations against the governments they consider to be corrupt, their latest targets being the ones from Nigeria and Peru.
The hackers leaked around 200 megabytes worth of sensitive data obtained from the servers of the Peruvian government, mainly consisting of pdf file... |
8 February 2012
10:31 GMT |
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After they leaked more than 26,000 credit card details to show their support for Operation Free Palestine, members of TeaMp0isoN return with another massive data leak as part of the operation launched by hacktivists worldwide against the Nigerian government.
“Tonight we've got some databases from some inf... |
6 February 2012
05:00 GMT |
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The website of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) belonging to the Nigerian government was found to host a clever phishing page that targeted the credentials of Halifax bank customers.
This strategy has been seen back in July 2011 when more than 140 phishing sites were discovered to be ho... |
5 January 2012
08:53 GMT |
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Anonymous joined forces with Nigerian hacktivist collectives and revealed their plans to go after the local government in operation Occupy Nigeria.
“And so beginning tomorrow the great and noble people of Nigeria will take their place in the Transnational Global Cyber Insurgency and rise up in what many there ... |
4 January 2012
07:33 GMT |
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Shell's name is currently associated with an oil leak located 120 kilometers off the Nigeria cost. As a result, the company announced it would abandon its operations at the Bonga deepwater facility and focus on effective cleanup operations.
This decision is very important, since the company manages to obtain 2... |
21 December 2011
08:36 GMT |
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Scammers came up with new techniques of masking a classic 419 scam. The latest methods imply that the actual message, the one that promises tens of millions from diamond mines and banks from Africa, is hidden in an archived text file that comes attached to the email.
“This is a confidential message, please kin... |
5 December 2011
10:53 GMT |
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Team Elite probed a lot of ministry websites around the world and, besides the one that belonged to the Information and Communications Ministry of Nepal, they found that the site owned by the Federal Ministry of Information & Communications of Nigeria also presents flaws that could allow an attacker to inject a malic... |
28 November 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Opera has just announced the signing of an agreement with wireless carrier MTN for the delivery of a faster, more appealing Internet browsing for mobile phone users in Nigeria.Over 40 million MTN customers will be able to enjoy the improved Internet navigation on their devices courtesy of Opera Mini, the duo announc... |
18 October 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced the launch of its Ovi Life Tools service on the market in Nigeria, the largest mobile market in Africa, and also one of Africa's fastest growing economies. According to Nokia, the Ovi Life Tools services already proved successful in markets like Indonesia, India... |
2 November 2010
07:19 GMT |
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A Nigerian national extradited to US in June was sentenced to 102 months in prison for fraudulently acquiring thousands of airline tickets using stolen credit card details and reselling them for profit.Ademola Ismaila Adegoke, 43, of Accra, Ghana, was arrested on May 5 by the Ghanian police, following an investigatio... |
25 October 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is one of the American medical schools and universities part of a program that invests $130 million over a five-year period for the transformation of the African medical education and the rise of the numbers of health workers.The program is called the Medical Educat... |
14 October 2010
10:11 GMT |
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Goodluck Jonathan, interim president of Nigeria, announced his candidacy for the presidential elections to be held in early 2011 in the country. There's nothing unusual or terribly interesting about that, except for the fact that he did it on Facebook, quite possibly the first presidential candidate to do that. ... |
22 September 2010
06:13 GMT |
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Facebook’s reach is universal and, while there are still some countries where the site doesn’t dominate, it’s safe to say that it’s a global phenomenon. So the fact that Nigerian president was persuaded in reversing the ban on the country’s football team by his Facebook followers shouldn... |
6 July 2010
11:52 GMT |
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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
03:09 GMT |
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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
08:27 GMT |
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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
07:10 GMT |
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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
03:59 GMT |
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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
10:27 GMT |
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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
16:31 GMT |
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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
08:19 GMT |
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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
08:26 GMT |
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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
07:05 GMT |
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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
04:01 GMT |
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