Nigeria’s foremost spy agency, Department of State Services (DSS), has received approval from President Muhammadu Buhari to acquire a super-sophisticated BIG BROTHER technology that will grant secret agents limitless, round-the-clock access to everything you say or transmit via the encrypted WhatsApp mobile application as part of an invasive surveillance of the country’s 170 million phone subscribers and 122 million internet users.

Authoritative sources familiar with the approval and development confided in THEWILL that a budget of about N3 billion has been approved to purchase the technology.


“The technology has been paid for and should be on our shores and operational in another 6-8 weeks,” one of the sources told THEWILL.

A training programme has also been arranged for designated security operatives who will operate the equipment, according to the sources, who opted to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the subject.

Apart from targeting users of Facebook-owned WhatsApp, THEWILL could not as at press time determine whether the technology can bug users of other fast-growing encrypted phone messaging services like Telegram and Signal.


Known informally as the BIG BROTHER technology, the new equipment will expand the DSS’s capacity for phone monitoring, phone tapping, audio surveillance, video surveillance, internet monitoring and location monitoring throughout the country’s entire communications spectrum.


Sources in government, say the purchase is coming on the heels of the country’s challenging security issues – terrorism, kidnapping and banditry, and not even constitutional provisions guaranteeing citizens’ personal privacy will be allowed to pose a stumbling block to this new acquisition.

Source:
https://www.stelladimokokorkus.com/2021/03/dss-reportedly-acquires-n3-billion.html?m=1

Doesn't sound reasonable.

Trash!!

Big brother ko, big sister ni.

Do you think FB is one small company base in Nigeria alone wey the Nigerian government go wan do nonsense with?

BabaOwen:
Trash!!

Big brother ko, big sister ni.

Do you think FB is one small company base in Nigeria alone wey the Nigerian government go wan do nonsense with?

Get your facts right.
It's true.
It had been proposed before and granted now.

Kayberg:


Get your facts right.
It's true.
It had been proposed before and granted now.

They will need to get permission from FB before they can monitor messages on WhatsApp. Do you think they will be giving the permission to do so?

This is arrant nonsense!

Nigeria may be facing all sort of insecurity, infringing our privacy is not close to being the solution.

BabaOwen:
They will need to get permission from FB before they can monitor messages on WhatsApp. Do you think they will be giving the permission to do so?

It's been done and going on in several countries, both in Africa and foreign. What then do you think will make Nigeria single out?

Kayberg:


It's been done and going on in several countries, both in Africa and foreign. What then do you think will make Nigeria single out?

If the Nigerian government asked FB to grant them permission to monitor so so so person chats on WhatsApp for security reasons, they will be giving permission to access the chat.

Not to now give them access to monitor millions of people on WhatsApp chat in Nigeria.

Kayberg:


It's been done and going on in several countries, both in Africa and foreign. What then do you think will make Nigeria single out?

Can you list the names of this country in Africa and Europe then? Or any other continents you wish to mention.

I hope Dey have extra prisons. Coz Dey will arrest and get tired of arresting. We’re waiting

Share the country A$AP

All dis one is so that dey can monitor and stop biafran or oduduwa secession. If u think dey are buying it to stop Boko Haram...u ar on a long thing.

BabaOwen:
Can you list the names of this country in Africa and Europe then? Or any other continents you wish to mention.

It didn't start today bro.
Government have been spying on citizens for years.
Nigeria's time is just closer.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/actually-most-countries-are-increasingly-spying-on-their-citizens-the-un-says/276614/

https://qz.com/africa/1940897/nigeria-kenya-use-israeli-surveillance-tool-to-listen-to-calls/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/politics/totok-app-uae.html

https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/iran-is-using-chat-apps-to-spy-on-its-citizens-researchers-say-1.1007778

As you can see, the above links are not from Nigerian Bloggers.

Fake news. A 3 billion equipment is not needed for spying on WhatsApp.

There are several apps for communication

How many can they spy.

See as them want chop our money.

No wonder kanu announced the development of an IPOB app yesterday.

You see why Nnamdi Kanu followership keep soaring, just y'day during his broadcast, he has already announced this and outlined measures to beat them to their sinister game. Nnamdi Kanu truly must have an insider inside Aso Rock. Already the U.S.A wing of IPOB is developing a customized bespoke app that will ensure seamless evangelism

Would this solve the current insecurity challenges?

No more privacy

aso rock currently harbors the worst of em criminals....big brother should start there

Instead of going to arrest Bandits he is spying on innocent citizens

The last gasps of some drowning men.. Buhari and his brothers are loosing the fight.., and they know..

paddyDIGITAL:
Would this solve the current insecurity challenges?

No. Gives someone an opportunity to steal some money.

Kayberg:


It didn't start today bro.
Government have been spying on citizens for years.
Nigeria's time is just closer.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/actually-most-countries-are-increasingly-spying-on-their-citizens-the-un-says/276614/

https://qz.com/africa/1940897/nigeria-kenya-use-israeli-surveillance-tool-to-listen-to-calls/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/politics/totok-app-uae.html

https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/iran-is-using-chat-apps-to-spy-on-its-citizens-researchers-say-1.1007778

As you can see, the above links are not from Nigerian Bloggers.

These tools are used illegally to spy on citizens by their government. People download them inadvertently, not knowing that they are spy tools. All these are different. You need to prove to us which country Facebook has allowed to spy on its citizens chats!

Media Psychology crapshit

Mutherfuckers only invest in weapons and spies, no infrastructure no education.

There's nothing we'll not see or hear in this buhari regime

Giftedprof:
Nigeria’s foremost spy agency, Department of State Services (DSS), has received approval from President Muhammadu Buhari to acquire a super-sophisticated BIG BROTHER technology that will grant secret agents limitless, round-the-clock access to everything you say or transmit via the encrypted WhatsApp mobile application as part of an invasive surveillance of the country’s 170 million phone subscribers and 122 million internet users.

Authoritative sources familiar with the approval and development confided in THEWILL that a budget of about N3 billion has been approved to purchase the technology.


“The technology has been paid for and should be on our shores and operational in another 6-8 weeks,” one of the sources told THEWILL.

A training programme has also been arranged for designated security operatives who will operate the equipment, according to the sources, who opted to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the subject.

Apart from targeting users of Facebook-owned WhatsApp, THEWILL could not as at press time determine whether the technology can bug users of other fast-growing encrypted phone messaging services like Telegram and Signal.


Known informally as the BIG BROTHER technology, the new equipment will expand the DSS’s capacity for phone monitoring, phone tapping, audio surveillance, video surveillance, internet monitoring and location monitoring throughout the country’s entire communications spectrum.


Sources in government, say the purchase is coming on the heels of the country’s challenging security issues – terrorism, kidnapping and banditry, and not even constitutional provisions guaranteeing citizens’ personal privacy will be allowed to pose a stumbling block to this new acquisition.

Source:
https://www.stelladimokokorkus.com/2021/03/dss-reportedly-acquires-n3-billion.html?m=1

I hope they will not be against it when they lose power

Make una watch as them go dey use am against those wey no like e government, instead of them to use am against all form of terrorism

I don't expect anything better from a demonic and tyrannical gov't. That's the kind of things they will want to do instead of making life better for people they rule

See this mumu government, una neva fit maintain steady power na una wan develop software? How many of una website Anonymous hackers enter during EndSars protest? Kai