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Sim-swap fraud now in vogue

Sim-swap fraud now in vogue

By Owolola Adebola We are in a period when a smartphone functions as a digital wallet, identity card, and security key all at once. One of the oldest tricks in the cybercrime playbook has returned with a vengeance. SIM-swap fraud is at it. It is also known as SIM swapping, SIM hijacking, or phone-number takeover. […]
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ALHAJI AHMED MOHAMED: My guardian angel from the North

ALHAJI AHMED MOHAMED: My guardian angel from the North

By Tony Nwankwo I was at my desk in the Banking Hall of First Bank, Burma Road, Apapa, when this gentleman, Chief Young Onwuchekwa waved me to a counter at the Bank. He was Legal Adviser and Company Secretary at Nigerian Technical Company Ltd. (NITECO), down the street at Warehouse Road, Apapa. I walked to […]

Hardship: If I were President Tinubu

Hardship: If I were President Tinubu

By Chekwube Nzomiwu IF I were President Tinubu, I will admit that announcing the removal of fuel subsidy on the day of my inauguration was a mistake. I will also admit that the floating of the Naira was an unintended error. Rather than offer Nigerians “Renewed Hope”, these two policies have thrown them into unprecedented hardship. […]

Security: Colonial India as template

Security: Colonial India as template

To overcome our security challenges, in the long haul, we should borrow from the template deployed in Colonial India but with modifications

Ikpeazu’s footprints in Geometric Power Project success story

Ikpeazu’s footprints in Geometric Power Project success story

By MICHAEL NWABUEZE IT was James Freeman Clarke, an American Church minister, theologian and author, who once famously said that: “A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.” Right now, Clarke and other like-minded philosophers would be turning in their graves as a majority of our political leaders have […]