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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

National Security Adviser Says ''Yahoo Boys Are A Threat To The economy And Security Of Nigerians...

The National Security Adviser (NSA), Retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, on Monday, said that the activities of hackers and cyber criminals was a threat to the economy and security of Nigerians and vital infrastructure connected to the Internet.




Monguno stated this at the inauguration of a 31-member Cybercrime Advisory Council (CAC) in Abuja.
He said “the activities of criminals in our cyberspace is threatening our individual and collective privacy.”


He added that the situation was partly due to the lack of awareness on cyber security and poor enforcement of guidelines and minimum standards for security of government websites.
Monguno said that the need to take serious action to protect the country’s cyberspace had become a national security requirement.


He noted that “the importance of serious action to protect our national cyberspace has increased tremendously with growth in number of Nigerians connected to the Internet.”
He said that the 2014 annual report of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) showed a 183 per cent increase on e-payment platform in the banking sector.


The security adviser added that in 2014, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in the UK estimated the annual cost of cybercrime to Nigeria to about 0.08 per cent, representing about N100 billion.
“This situation is a serious challenge to our resolve to take advantage of the enormous opportunities that the Internet brings,” he said.


He pointed out that effective management of risk associated with cybercrime required collaboration between government, the private sector and civil society organisations.
The NSA said government had deployed ways of fighting cybercrime by reviewing the Evidence Act so that electronic evidence could be accepted in court.


He said that the country became the fifth country in Africa and the first in West Africa to enact the cybercrime law.
He urged members of the council to employ their experiences to discharge their responsibility to ensure a more secure cyberspace in the country.
“You have been nominated by your various organisations as members of this prestigious Council based on trust, expertise, experience and nobility of character,” he noted.


Inaugurating the Council, Abubakar Malami, the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, said that the work of the Council would reinforce and enhance the implementation of the cybercrime Act in the country.
He said that considering the nature of cybercrime, the only way to fight it was through multi-stakeholder, inter-agency, bilateral and multilateral collaboration and cooperation.


Malami assured members of the Council of the Federal Government’s continued partnership and collaboration.
The minister said that the inauguration of the Council would offer opportunity for stakeholders to exchange ideas on the issue that was affecting all sectors of the economy.


He added that “today’s inauguration of the Cybercrime Advisory Council is pivotal and will provide the platform and opportunity for all stakeholders to collaborate and exchange ideas on an issue that affects all sectors of the economy.”

The Council is saddled with the responsibility of formulating and providing general policy guidelines for the implementation of the Act, among others. (NAN).


32 comments:

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    1. The class they are talking about is not the regular yahoo boy! All this young men we know that are in social circle now are big time retired yahoo boys oo! From Emoney to Dilly to Malivelihood to Shina Peller to Emperor Geezy! So many unknown lords sef!

      Not that yahoo is good oo but did you notice cultist activities have reduced? Like really really reduced! What do you think is the cause of this? People would rather drive Benz than carry gun and be obtaining phones

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    1. When mugu fall guy man go chop make them go find wetin dey do their economy jare.
      All the once they steal from the government nkor.

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  3. It is better to have yahoo boys than to have bokoharams. When you allow yahoo boys to mugu you, maga will eat.

    Make i go look for any yahoo boys. where will i get them. I need dollars

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  4. Abeg dey should free boys jor...

    fulani herdsmen are on rampage all over the country and they are not doing anything about it, na boys were dey hustle for survival dem dey worry
    Mtchewwwe...

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  5. Yahoo boys is their problem now

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  6. Na God go punish am.Imagine the idiot that's spending our collective wealth, talking shit about boys that are helping themselves and their family. All thanks to Yahoo. Nigeria for don catch fire.. I hail o! All the brains behind the computer. Maga must pay!

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  7. 90 percent of yahoo boys are of the yoruba tribe! It's just in their nature to not be straightforward and fraudulent.

    Guess their ancestor Oduduwa was a scam artist deceiving people that he came from heaven with a long chain. So that they will worship him as a. god. Kikikiki na him start 419

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    1. Yorubas are yahoo boys
      Igbos are drug barons
      Hausas are money laundered


      IT funny when a yoruba person wants to attack an Igbo person for pushing drugs

      Because really, what's the difference with this 2 occupation?? You push drugs, sell to wiling buyers and they endanger their health

      You defraud people of their hard earned money, years of savings and put them into emotional turmoil and endanger their health as some go as far as checking into mental health to recover..

      So both of you are doing same thing.

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  8. What class does them saraki,dino etc belong? Yahoo men or yahoo dads,some ministers needs to fumigate theirs brain.

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  9. Fuck the government, niggaz trying to get something to take care of responsibilities.. The government don't so shit for us

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  10. Fuck the government, niggaz trying to get something to take care of responsibilities.. The government don't so shit for us

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  11. They want to leave the fire burning their house to chase rats. Abeg make them free boys

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  12. Abegi...dey should leave the poor boys alone and tackle the main problems in this country...abi dem wan make Yahoo boys top priority now...if anybody fall mugu...dem go chop you... (In osufia's voice)..remix...cause I no get time..after all this time.. Don't tell me that people still haven't gotten sense... I mean like seriously... Don't they listen to news...mtchww

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  13. Abegi! Leave our yahoo boys alone and concentrate on catching our ministers and politicians that are stealing funds

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  14. Is it your yahoo??? Abeg go nd clear fulani herdmen from d road before u go dey spew rubbish. Na today yahoo start?
    Rubbish!!.

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  15. All of you saying they should leave yahoo boys because they are hustling, hope you will say so when some other set of people are pushing drugs because they are also hustling...

    And don't tell me it's not the same thing. It's actually the same thing. Drug pushing is even more better because people willingly buy with their money and weren't forced or coerced but yahoo boys obtain the money thru trikish methods that leave the victim in a state of shock. Some even die. Some go mental. Isn't it the same thing that happen to those taking drugs only thing is they weren't coerced, manipulated of forced to buy. But you manipulate people. To release money

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  16. It's a welcomed development, if only the bastard and those with him knows how to go about it. Even the US government has no answer to it. It's part of the cyber world and hackers will remain forever

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  17. This is the type of change we should be chanting.

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