LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed security and law enforcement agencies to scale up efforts at cracking down individuals or organisations involved in cybercrime and transnational car theft. A statement in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Information on Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the President also sent a strong message to the…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday discharged and acquitted a Nigerian publisher, Agba Jalingo, of cybercrime. Mr Jalingo, who publishes an online newspaper, CrossRiverWatch, was prosecuted by the Nigeria police over a 30 June 2022 Facebook post in which he alleged that Alami Ayade, the wife to the younger brother…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Africa’s mobile users are increasingly concerned about the mobile risks and the potential for digital identity theft; however, this is not stopping them from using their favourite messaging platforms and applications. This emerged in new research carried out by KnowBe4 among over 700 smartphone users in Nigeria, Mauritius, Egypt, South Africa,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday disclosed that Imo State has recorded the highest number of cybercrimes in the South-East geo-political Region. The commission also declared that it has convicted over 90 suspects for various financial crimes within the South East this year alone. Regional Commander of the EFCC in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite public outrage in Nigeria, Ghana Immigration (GI) officials have intensified their raid of neighbourhoods with high concentration of Nigerians in the hope of weeding out persons without residence permit and repatriating same to Nigeria. No fewer than 723 Nigerians had been deported from Ghana since January 2018 to date in a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN) has sued the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) over what it terms the unlawful use of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.) Act 2015 to oppress journalists in the country. The association through its President Austyn Ogannah and General Secretary Daniel Elombah contends that the Act…