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. […]
A look into the future, by BHM Group’s consultants and advisers
BHM’s Ayeni Adekunle, ID Africa’s Femi Falodun, 14 others write about where our world will be by 2025 As the world continues to grapple with an unprecedented pandemic, increased insecurity, extreme hunger and poverty, questions about the future of our world continue to arise. 16 consultants and advisers from one of Africa’s leading media and […]
The Ortom conundrum and clamour for ‘Rightly’
By Segun Ige ON March 20, 2021, Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, was allegedly attacked by some armed, face-masked men on his way from farm at Tyo Mu, along Makurdi-Gboko Road. Ortom tellingly describes how he narrowly escaped death, grateful for his sure-footed security personnel. Meanwhile, the reaction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, becomes […]
Buba Marwa and the bad guys
New things are happening at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and suddenly, there’s a throwback to the 1996-1999 Lagos State, when the then Colonel Mohammed Buba Marwa was military administrator. Marwa took a broom, and swept Lagos almost clean. With Operation Sweep, criminals were given bloody noses, and sent scampering for cover. Roads, […]
Addressing a problem with a problem through linguistic shyness
Nigerians tend to be so decent that we often shy away from calling certain things their names just so that we do not appear immoral or amoral. A caption on a television programme today reads: MOTHER EXPRESSES SHOCK OVER DISCOVERY OF 11-YEAR-OLD SON’S ADDICTION TO ADULT FILM.
Ortom did not stage-manage attack on himself
The totally condemnable attempt on the life of Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue State has triggered an avalanche of reactions. Most reactions are telling in their degree of empathy and outright condemnation of the attacks. There is also, a readying of highly skilled police personnel to thoroughly investigate and possibly arrest the culprits. However, politically […]
