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.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgdLi0gwpfk




SOURCE: https://www.nan.ng/news/army-rolls-out-cyber-warfare-command-launches-app/

Nice one. Nothing special in ftc

"Nigeria Army Launches Cyber-Warfare Division"

=> https://www.facebook.com/NigerianArmy/posts/1664639783648340


This is what we have been waiting for.
A place to report any threats to the corporate
existence of Africa's most populous country!
Most countries of the world have Cyber
Warfare Commands/facilities.

For those who don't know, the Americans
are actually monitoring every Facebook,
Twitter, and other So-called social media
accounts.

If you post nonsense against America
on Social Media, you will be flagged
down and they can prevent you from
entering the U.S. based on any reckless
post.

Even if you are given a visa in your country,
you can be turned back at your point of
entry in the U.S. It has happened to
some people before that I'm very aware
of... and they were even British.

One of 2 British guys posted on Twitter
in a figurative manner of speaking that they
were planning to "destroy America while on
holiday in Hollywood [meaning they were
going to "enjoy themselves"] and they were
turned back by Homeland Security after landing
at LAX [Los Angeles International Airport]
in the United States!


PS: Yep! It made Front Page on
October 23, 2018... 5th from the bottom
of the attached screen shot!.

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.

The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, has raised concerns over what it called the “fake news” phenomenon and the possible impacts on the 2019 general elections in Nigeria. Mr Jamie Angus, the Director of BBC World Service Group, who featured on yesterday’s edition of Channels TV programme, “Sunrise Daily," on July 1 2018 said: desperate politicians would use the opportunity of the elections to plant and spread malicious stories. Angus noted that fake news and disinformation had constituted a huge challenge globally, particularly in Africa and Nigeria, because of people’s trust and belief in the social media.

He said fake news were being spread for economic reasons, especially on social media, where efforts were often made to attract people to pages and timeline. Angus said that more worrisome “is the spread of fake news to create and aggravate ethnic and communal clashes and tensions.” He said that there were instances when people faked the stories of BBC and other credible media organisations. “For instance, during the Kenyan elections, people put in some fake version of BBC news report and shared them on Facebook and WhatsApp for political gains. What we can do is to educate the people and appeal to them not to share news until they are sure of the source and confirm it is the truth,” he said.

^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^
To identify dubious fake pictures of killings and dead bodies from DR Congo
and Rwanda being circulated on WhatsApp and useless blogs and being passed
off as pictures of dead people from Nigeria [Plateau, Kaduna, Benue, Adamawa],
please use:

images.google.com and UPLOAD the image and it will tell you if
it is real or NOT and which country the picture originally came
from!

It is very insulting to the people of Plateau, Kaduna, Benue, Adamawa
for propaganda agents to use false images from other countries
for political purposes and to damage the image of the current
Federal Government... it is even more insulting to Nigerians
sense of judgment to manipulate them!

Remember use: images.google.com
and report to the ARMY CYBER WARFARE
COMMAND via the Mobile APP.


I hope this helps everyone reading this.
Enough said!

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.

^^^^
^^^^
@ Naijaguy12345


I was thinking of that too... a sort of whistle-blower policy
to motivate people. A minimum of N1,000 per information
provided on fake news Websites and blogs. A higher amount
for much bigger information on terrorists and their networks!



But for me, I would pass on information for FREE on FAKE NEWS
to the army and intelligence agencies because such evil news
being spread via blogs and whatsapp would destroy Nigeria
and lead to a large number of refugees spilling out of Nigeria.

Cheers!

"Nigeria Army Launches Cyber-Warfare Division"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgdLi0gwpfk

=> https://www.facebook.com/NigerianArmy/posts/1664639783648340

This is the BIG Kahuna!

"REMARKS BY THE COAS ON THE COMMISSIONING OF CYBER OPERATIONS CENTRE OF NACWC ON 15 OCT 2018"

1. Principal Staff Officers, Officers, Soldiers, members of the Press, Distinguished invited guests, I am delighted today for the occasion of commissioning of the Cyber operations Center of the Nigerian Army Cyber Warfare Command. As you are all aware, Cyber-warfare is the fifth domain of warfare after Land, Sea, Air and Space. Therefore, this project would not have come...

Read More Here: https://www.facebook.com/NigerianArmy/posts/1664639783648340

Oh yas!! They are now Y2K compliant

No more oppression

Cc Majorjeffery

Konquest:
Have information or complaint for the Nigerian Army Cyber
Warfare Command?

Download Nigerian Army iReport app on Google Play Store.

Downloading already

Konquest:
"Nigeria Army Launches Cyber-Warfare Division"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgdLi0gwpfk

=> https://www.facebook.com/NigerianArmy/posts/1664639783648340

This is the BIG Kahuna!

Seriously big. It is long over due

Konquest:

The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, has raised concerns over what it called the “fake news” phenomenon and the possible impacts on the 2019 general elections in Nigeria. Mr Jamie Angus, the Director of BBC World Service Group, who featured on yesterday’s edition of Channels TV programme, “Sunrise Daily," in July 2018 said: desperate politicians would use the opportunity of the elections to plant and spread malicious stories. Angus noted that fake news and disinformation had constituted a huge challenge globally, particularly in Africa and Nigeria, because of people’s trust and belief in the social media.

He said fake news were being spread for economic reasons, especially on social media, where efforts were often made to attract people to pages and timeline. Angus said that more worrisome “is the spread of fake news to create and aggravate ethnic and communal clashes and tensions.” He said that there were instances when people faked the stories of BBC and other credible media organisations. “For instance, during the Kenyan elections, people put in some fake version of BBC news report and shared them on Facebook and Whatssapp for political gains. What we can do is to educate the people and appeal to them not to share news until they are sure of the source and confirm it is the truth,” he said.

^^^^^
^^^^^
To identify dubious fake pictures of killings and dead bodies from DR Congo
and Rwanda being circulated on WhatsApp and useless blogs and being passed
off as pictures of dead people from Nigeria [Plateau, Kaduna, Benue, Adamawa],
please use:

images.google.com and UPLOAD the image and it will tell you if
it is real or NOT and which country the picture originally came
from!

It is very insulting to the people of Plateau, Kaduna, Benue, Adamawa
for propaganda agents to use false images from other countries
for political purposes and to damage the image of the current
Federal Government... it is even more insulting to Nigerians
sense of judgment to manipulate them!

Remember use: images.google.com
and report to the ARMY CYBER WARFARE
COMMAND via the Mobile APP.


I hope this helps everyone reading this.
Enough said!

And half-baked, semi-literate bloggers and the gullible Nigerian social media users are active agents of fake news dissemination

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

this is not cyber warfare

Nice and commendable

When you download an app on your phone it can steal your contacts, nudes, messages, call logs etc.

No repressive regime or any for that matter should have access to these items. They are private and should remain so.

When you can't destroy Book Haram Physically, you console yourself by destroying them on the internet.

Lol

iReport iRun

Go and finish Boko Haram they cannot. Now they are launching cyber warfare. Will it finish off Boko Haram?

Jokers....even the Chief of Army staff cannot operate an iphone without the help of somebody and he is launching cyber command to stop terrorism, these people keep using all means to loot Nigeria's treasury.

Who are the personnel to man this command Of course Nurudeen, Kabiru, Hamza and Musa who have never seen a 3D computer before talk less of knowing what coding and programming means

Who amongst them knows the meaning of cyber security Can they program a bot Can they know the difference between a threatening virus and a normal app

So long as Nigeria under Buhari prefers tribe to merit, Nigeria is heading nowhere

Okay....
Fail failure failiest

The war against Nigerian freedom has started...

na so e dey take start.....soon naija go begin display war weapons.... ISRAEL is in trouble.....hehehehe.......they had better do as Mr LAI MOHAMMED had instructed else.....

I bet, that app is full of bugs

In other news :

He has done for us x2!!! What Dr Lucky cannot do!! He has done for us!!! What my father cannot do!! He has done for us!!! What Dasuki cannot do!!! He has done for us!! ......... First step to that permanent seat at the UN security council!

The app we go soon hack

Hmmm. . . Nigeria army ... hope it will serve the greater good of the nation.

oluwaseyi000:
Nice one

Cyber warfare based on google store and apple store is just a joke, and another branch of MBC.