An Irish hacker, angered by Nigeria’s
stance on homosexuality, has attacked
Nigeria’s official government website in
an attempt to coerce President
Goodluck Jonathan to veto a bill
seeking to jail homosexuals. The attack happened on Thursday night
and normalcy only returned to the site
at about 11.00 p.m. on Thursday. It is
not known whether it was the
government that regained control or
whether the attackers simply suspended the attack. The anti-gay bill, passed by Nigeria’s
National Assembly and generously
supported by Nigerians, seeks to jail
convicted homosexuals for 14 years. “Nobody should live in fear of being
jailed, when their only action is loving
another consenting adult, regardless of
gender,” the Irish hacker, Paddyhack
said. A message left on the defaced website
gave the president 72 hours to
“renounce and veto this Bill…” “Failure to follow our order will unleash
a torrent of fury aimed directly at the
direction of your administration,
starting with some startling but
unsurprising evidence of corruption in
your ranks,”the hacker, who also claims to be a member of the global
Anonymous group, said. “No need to start destroying evidence. I
already have it,” the hacker declared. The hacked website, Nigeria.gov.ng, is Nigeria’s official website. It is the
equivalent of UK’s gov.uk and U.S’ USA.gov. It is managed by Nigeria’s
information ministry. The Thursday night attack was a
continuation of an #opNigeria the
attacker launched on July 1. Despite
announcing his intention hours before
hijacking the website, Nigeria’s
Information Ministry’s web administrators appear unable to avert
the attack. “Just over two hours to launch of # OpNigeria,” the attacker announced in his twitter diary. The spokesperson of the ministry,
Joseph Mutuah, could not explain the
attacks when pressed for reasons the
government is unable to provide
appropriate security for its web
infrastructure. He likened it to armed robbers breaking
into one’s property. “They are hackers,”
he said. The ICT department of the Information
Ministry received N63.5 million from
the national treasury this year. Of this
amount, N10 million was set aside for
the management of the website. Nigeria cyber protest culture Although the web profile of the attack
suggests Irish origins, it is difficult to
isolate the incident from Nigeria’s
growing culture of cyber activism. Cyber warfare is fast becoming a major
protest tool for Nigeria’s social media
community. Besides using the Internet
to disseminate information, protesters
use hacking skills to get government
officials’ attention to civil issues. After playing a major role in the global
Occupy Movement, the Internet anarchy
group, called Anarchy, is lending
support to clones in developing
countries, including Nigeria. Various clones operating in Nigeria
have carried out operations against
government Internet infrastructures as
a means of protesting unfavourable
policies, mostly as support for a protest
in the social media community. Early in January 2012, during the
Occupy Nigeria protest, Nigeria Cyber
Hack-activists, the lead clone of
Anonymous, began a “Tell Them How
You Feel” campaign. The group
bombarded mobile phone lines of Nigerian politicians, lawmakers and top
government functionaries – including
the Vice president – with a million text
messages each. Thereafter, these phone numbers were
published by the group on social media,
inviting Nigerians to call or text them
to denounce the policy. Nigeria Cyber Hack-activist, believed to
be made up of mostly young people,
have been carrying out attacks on
government Internet infrastructure
since 2010. It was a means of
protesting the lavish expenditure of the government on Nigeria’s 50th
anniversary – in the face of worsening
poverty and infrastructure decay. The
group launched attacks that crippled
many government websites. The group has a history of defacing
government websites. In May 2011,
they ruined several government
websites, including the National
Assembly’s, in a campaign – Op-Nigeria
– targeted at forcing government to cut waste and sign the Freedom of
Information Act.
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How dare this idiotic elements hold our country to ransom?? We don't want same-sex marriage in NIGERIA!! Is it by force?? If you can't live with it, go to iraq nuclear plant and kill yourself!!

gay and lesbian shiit sucks...we have morals in nigeria...if animals lyk goats,cows,pigs,donkeys e.t.c been look down as very low wen insulting sumone neva practice same-sex...then why we humans....?refuse to pass this bill will return #occupynigeria protest...wats even delaying #GEJ from signing into law...?