Konquest: The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen Tukur Buratai, has inaugurated the Nigerian Army Cyber Warfare Command, a new corps to protect its data/network against cyber attack and curb terrorism.
He also launched an app that Nigerian citizens can download to pass information to the military authorities.
Buratai said the Cyber Operations Centre, at the army headquarters in Abuja, would also boost the army’s online presence in the fight against fake news targeted at it with counter narratives and cyber operations.
He added that “cyber warfare is the fifth domain of warfare after Land, Sea, Air and Space.Therefore, this project would not have come at a better time than now.”
Buratai, therefore, stressed the need for the army to embark on data protection and Information Warfare to curb online radicalisation, as well as other terrorist activities perpetrated on the internet.
"Buratai signs the guest book at the Cyber Warfare Command"
According to him, the intrinsic features of cyberspace can be easily exploited for information warfare by actors with malicious intent to plant and disseminate fake news and instruct paid users to spread online manipulated content.
“This is done to degrade debates with diverging truths, deceive, distract and misinform public opinion.
“This can eventually disorient and corroborate a sense of doubt among the public, or shape the opinion of a specific target audience on a certain issue.
“Hostile actors in cyberspace are also willing and capable of leveraging the variety of tools allowed by computer network operations and computational propaganda to influence public opinion to a degree that old-fashioned Psychology Operations could only dream of.
“The above statement accurately demonstrates the real threat of information warfare and the need to combat it with information knowledge.”
The army chief charged personnel of the new corps which he said was first in Africa, to equip themselves with digital forensics capabilities to be able to handle cases of identity theft and generate immediate incidence response.
He added that “furthermore, I encourage you to routinely survey the dark web/darknet and carry out analysis that may help the Nigerian army to be proactive in the cyber realm.”
Buratai noted that in recent times, the military had been inundated with several complaints regarding claims bothering on the unprofessional conducts of some of its personnel in the field.
Consequently, he said, the army took it upon itself to create an avenue for the public to submit complaints and information directly to the appropriate authority without third party interference.
He said “the avenue is an application that will allow users to relay information anonymously to the Nigerian Army.
“It enables citizens to give timely information to the army, thereby facilitating quick response.
“Additionally, crimes against the constitution perpetrated by serving personnel can be directly reported to the army, while keeping the person involved abreast with actions taken as regards a submitted complain.
“The link to the application will be publicly available on the Nigerian Army Facebook page, while the application can be assessed through our website and on apps freely available on various app stores.”
The chief of army staff added that users could submit a report, as well as attach uploads that would aid the authority in carrying out necessary actions.
Konquest: The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen Tukur Buratai, has inaugurated the Nigerian Army Cyber Warfare Command, a new corps to protect its data/network against cyber attack and curb terrorism.
He also launched an app that Nigerian citizens can download to pass information to the military authorities.
Buratai said the Cyber Operations Centre, at the army headquarters in Abuja, would also boost the army’s online presence in the fight against fake news targeted at it with counter narratives and cyber operations.
He added that “cyber warfare is the fifth domain of warfare after Land, Sea, Air and Space.Therefore, this project would not have come at a better time than now.”
Buratai, therefore, stressed the need for the army to embark on data protection and Information Warfare to curb online radicalisation, as well as other terrorist activities perpetrated on the internet.
"Buratai signs the guest book at the Cyber Warfare Command"
According to him, the intrinsic features of cyberspace can be easily exploited for information warfare by actors with malicious intent to plant and disseminate fake news and instruct paid users to spread online manipulated content.
“This is done to degrade debates with diverging truths, deceive, distract and misinform public opinion.
“This can eventually disorient and corroborate a sense of doubt among the public, or shape the opinion of a specific target audience on a certain issue.
“Hostile actors in cyberspace are also willing and capable of leveraging the variety of tools allowed by computer network operations and computational propaganda to influence public opinion to a degree that old-fashioned Psychology Operations could only dream of.
“The above statement accurately demonstrates the real threat of information warfare and the need to combat it with information knowledge.”
The army chief charged personnel of the new corps which he said was first in Africa, to equip themselves with digital forensics capabilities to be able to handle cases of identity theft and generate immediate incidence response.
He added that “furthermore, I encourage you to routinely survey the dark web/darknet and carry out analysis that may help the Nigerian army to be proactive in the cyber realm.”
Buratai noted that in recent times, the military had been inundated with several complaints regarding claims bothering on the unprofessional conducts of some of its personnel in the field.
Consequently, he said, the army took it upon itself to create an avenue for the public to submit complaints and information directly to the appropriate authority without third party interference.
He said “the avenue is an application that will allow users to relay information anonymously to the Nigerian Army.
“It enables citizens to give timely information to the army, thereby facilitating quick response.
“Additionally, crimes against the constitution perpetrated by serving personnel can be directly reported to the army, while keeping the person involved abreast with actions taken as regards a submitted complain.
“The link to the application will be publicly available on the Nigerian Army Facebook page, while the application can be assessed through our website and on apps freely available on various app stores.”
The chief of army staff added that users could submit a report, as well as attach uploads that would aid the authority in carrying out necessary actions.
Naijaguy12345: Information you secretly pass to the military shouldn't be free, they have to pay for it. Nothing is free in 2019.
In the UK for example you can earn £500 passing information to crime stoppers anonymously, if you tip them about some big crime you can get up to 20k plus.
In Nigeria you will get arrested as a suspect. According to their logic how did you get the information if you are not part of the conspiracy
So NA now doing DSS and police job after entering entertainment industry through their python dance, also after trying their hands on health industry through compulsory vaccination of school children ....now they want to join IT Obviously herdsmen's saga and BH boys ain't their primary call any longer. Who did this to naija?
Naijaguy12345: Information you secretly pass to the military shouldn't be free, they have to pay for it. Nothing is free in 2019.
In the UK for example you can earn £500 passing information to crime stoppers anonymously, if you tip them about some big crime you can get up to 20k plus.
Edunwa302: So NA now doing DSS and police job after entering entertainment industry through their python dance, also after trying their hands on health industry through compulsory vaccination of school children ....now they want to join IT Obviously herdsmen's saga and BH boys ain't their primary call any longer. Who did this to naija?
Naijaguy12345: Information you secretly pass to the military shouldn't be free, they have to pay for it. Nothing is free in 2019.
In the UK for example you can earn £500 passing information to crime stoppers anonymously, if you tip them about some big crime you can get up to 20k plus.
in 9ja they will arrest you and you will bail yourself with 20k
Woe unto you daughter of a bitch. You dish out insults to anyone without the fear of being banned but when same insults are dished back to you on same scale, you run to your colleagues asking that such person(s) be given a lengthy ban. Why would you dish if you wouldn't be served?..Even though we knew why you were sacked as a Mod. Olosho, olobo doti. Awon ebi e oni jere e, eleribu omo. Sango, Ogun, Sapona laa fejewe. Rederede lo ma baku, aiye re oni da, eleribu. Ishilove oloshi loveth, omo ofo, omo irankiran, omo aijiri. You and that bat-cave bitch Pocohantas.. Ema fobo reemi ni, ema fobo jona ni, eni sorire laye. And as the Mods are banning us, the earth, Air, Fire, Wind, Water will work together to ban you from the surface of the earth. Ase!!!.. Ko ni da fun e.. Oloshi, Oloyan fakia fakia bi gba waara.
OkaNaUbe: The ultimate goal is?...Terrorism? Last time I checked, BokoHaram doesn't fight in the internet. Cyber attack? Is this iReport what other countries use to fight cyber attacks or sophisticated programmes/software and computer programmers?
They tried to regulate social media usage but failed, now they changed tactics. This is politically motivated.
#FreedomOfSpeech #ThisIsDemocracy
I know you sounded intelligent to yourself so I'll leave you to enjoy your smart-sounding self, after all your whining ends here.
Nonsense, you are talking about cyber WARFARE and you are presenting an app Clueless. These things are not even meant to be publicized in the first place. Men Africans, we are just too backward. We can't even copy well from the west.
So, any issue with "last time I checked"