Nigeria

Five arrested over Sharjah money exchange robbery

Foreign currency worth Dh2.3 million recovered from the suspects Sharjah: Five men have been arrested in connection with a daring armed robbery at a money exchange house in Sharjah, police said on Sunday. The suspects, all Nigerian and aged in their 20s, stole currency worth over Dh2 million during a seven-minute heist at the Al […]

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Africa: Government Charged As SIM Boxing Menace Rips Africa

By Adeyemi Adepetun Sharp practices in Africa’s telecommunications sector are not abating as the menace of SIM boxing, Call masking, and refilling appeared to be on the upward swing. While Nigeria had been battling the menace for the past two and half years, which had impacted negatively on security and costing the country about N3

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Fraudsters targeting online gamers

Don’t let fraud ruin your fun – Action Fraud warns against fraudsters targeting online gamers. Action Fraud is warning parents and online gamers of the risk of fraud involving Steam Cardsand Fortnite.  Between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018, Action Fraud received 35 reports of Fortnite related fraud, with a total loss off £5,119 – an average of £146

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Train up ‘cyber security champions’ to stop hackers, small businesses told

Small businesses should train up “cyber security champions” to better protect themselves from the threat of cyber attacks, new government research has suggested.   A report by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) claimed that in the case of more than half (57%) of businesses who

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Police most corrupt institution in Nigeria, reveals SERAP survey

A new public survey released today by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) reports high levels of corruption in public institutions in Nigeria for the past 5 years. Of the five major public institutions surveyed, the police emerge as the most corrupt, with the power sector identified as the second most corrupt in the country

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Include Background checks in your hiring procedures

In hindsight, it seems obvious: Nathan’s pilfering of ING Corp. should have never been allowed to start, much less last as long as it did.   Nathan played a lead role in transitioning his old employer onto a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. A mistake by his new employer created an opportunity for Nathan

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I MARRIED A SCAMMER !! Exclusive HD Documentary with subtitles

In 2013 and then 2015, a Nigerian Scammer pretending to be a bank official contacted me and a ScamBaiting friend, trying to scam us. We baited him on each occasion and in 2015 he sent a woman to meet my character in England (an elderly, disabled man), to collect a large sum of cash from

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“I was tortured; iron rod was inserted into my private parts. At the end of the day, I fainted and the officers dumped me in the cell. I was revived by other people who were remanded in the cell.”

Omeli Darlington, a former staff member of First Bank of Nigeria, has spoken about how he was implicated in a fraud of N355million, allegedly carried out by staff of First Bank and Olam Nigeria Limited. Speaking during an interview with SaharaTV, Darlington broke down in tears, revealing how as a dispatch rider for First Bank

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Tanitoluwa Adewumi is an eight-year-old US chess champion. He’s also a refugee from Nigeria, whose family fled Boko Haram. More than $180,000 (£130,000) was raised for him after he won New York State’s chess championship. The money means his family will be able to move out of the homeless shelter they’ve lived in for the

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Nigeria may have become an electronic dumping ground

Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said that over 75 per cent of electronics devices imported into Nigeria are irreparable and toxic junk. Danbatta stated this on Tuesday in Abuja during the public inquiry on draft guidelines on disaster recovery and draft regulations on e-waste. He said Nigeria had

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