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[quote author=Legacyedition post=104408743]Very much understand. Sometimes ago, a whatsapp group was created to avoid spamming nairaland. It was created to disturb ircc on Twitter when there was ppr drought. When ircc started dishing out ppr, we decided to stop. You will meet likes minds and those that were also delayed there. You past time, catch cruise and forget your sorrows while also waiting and you got people to call and give
emotional support when you are down.


You can chat up baggy 09056535920 to add you to the group.

Thank you so much!!

Hello Frankrobbn1
Please can you please help me? The frustration is really hitting me bad right now. I applied through an agent since February, this is August and I’m yet to hear anything from the embassy. I’ve deferred my admission once and right now confused about the next step to take. Please!!! My email address is kachimykel@yahoo.ca. Kindly assist me with any useful information that can help me through right now please!

Good morning everyone!
Please can someone please help me? The frustration is really hitting me bad right now. I applied through an agent since February, this is August and I’m yet to hear anything from the embassy. I’ve deferred my admission once and right now confused about the next step to take. Please!!! My email address is kachimykel@yahoo.ca. Kindly assist me with any useful information that can help me through right now please!

Good morning everyone!
Please can someone please help me? The frustration is really hitting me bad right now. I applied through an agent since February, this is August and I’m yet to hear anything from the embassy. I’ve deferred my admission once and right now confused about the next step to take. Please!!! My email address is kachimykel@yahoo.ca. Kindly assist me with any useful information that can help me through right now please!

Hello my people! @frankrobbn1 and other gurus. Pls I need your advice. My visa application is still on process. I’m done with my course registration and the school just notified me that my first semester class will be online. I told them I don’t want online classes and I was advised to let them know as soon as possible if I would be deferring. Now I’m confused on what to do. My program is just two semesters (a year) period.
Should I go ahead to defer or resume online while waiting for the embassy decision?

I’ll be very grateful for your suggestions and advices.

Wifefo88:
Hey guys....The Eagle has landed...
I submitted via dhl to vfs abuja on march 12(friday), got to vfs abuja on monday(15)..I received counterfoil on 18 and LOI on 19th and passport delivered to me today..Am really grateful to God almighty and everyone of you on this platform...To those waiting for ppr yours will come this week ijn(Amen).

Congratulations!

JustMellow:
Hello Yeankux,

Don't defer yet. Wait.

Best of Luck

This is my case bro. My school wrote to me yesterday that my first semester will be online due to sovid-19 and I should let them know asap if would defer or not. I’m confused

Thaiy:
In which of the band? And what was the score on that band? 5.5 or less? There have been people who got approval with 5.5 in one band or another.

Godspeed ahead.

The score was 5.0 bro

Thank you for your reply
Should I go ahead and submit to them?

Hello everyone, I got a mail from the embassy after my submission that I should take IELTS for NSE and was given three weeks deadline to do so. I’ve done the exam but didn’t make 6.0 in one of the skills. Please, what’s the implication to this? How is it going to affect me as I am so frightened right now?

Please anyone knows or have studied in Adler University in Canada? Your information will be highly useful. Thank you

Pls has anyone been able to register for this year civil service commission recruitment? Thank you

Take a look at this picture and submit your views

DropShot:
Why has Trump exempted Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain and Oman from his list of countries he's banning?

Only the wise can understand this.

Because interest is the overiding factor in politics

LuvU2:
If he has an opinion; he should shut up already cos Nigerians have theirs too.

Liberal world aint it?

Madam holiest

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that it is not easy for his administration to fight terrorism, oil theft and corruption at the same time.

But he said in spite of the difficulties being faced in fighting these scourge, his administration would not relent in eliminating the vices from the nation’s body polity.

Buhari said this when the President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe, visited him in Abuja on Thursday.

The President, who expressed appreciation for Gnassingbe’s visit and for his concern about regional security, said his regime was being challenged with the Boko Haram insurgency, oil theft, illegal fishing, oil pollution and illegal dumping of toxins in the country.

Buhari said it was not easy for his administration, which he said, was fighting on many fronts.

According to him, the government is contending with insurgency in the North-East and oil theft in the South-South while trying to provide infrastructure in the country at the same time.

He said, “His (Gnassingbe’s) concern about regional security made it imperative for him to organise a summit on maritime security and development in November to examine a lot of issues.

“As for Nigeria, we are grateful for the sympathy and the goodwill expressed, touching on the performance of our armed forces and law enforcement agencies, since this administration came into being. It is not easy trying to fight on so many fronts, the North-East, the South-South and then try to provide infrastructure in our country.”

The President observed that the cooperation of the regional countries comprising Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Benin Republic had resulted in the isolation of Boko Haram and peace in the region.

He also advised African countries to pay attention to agriculture and manufacturing to provide jobs for the jobless.

Earlier, the Togolese President had invited Buhari to a security and piracy summit scheduled for Lome in November.

Gnassingbe said his country was organising the summit because $7bn had been lost to piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

The Togolese leader told Buhari that the security summit would deal with issues of piracy, oil theft, environmental pollution, immigration as well as human and drug trafficking.

He therefore called on African nations to collaborate to combat the scourge and security challenges in the sub-region.

Gnassingbe commended Buhari and the Nigerian security forces for the work they were doing to combat terrorism in West Africa.

When asked by journalists if African countries were not hosting too many summits, Gnassingbe disagreed, saying the summits were not enough.

He said, “Piracy alone costs the Gulf of Guinea $7bn a year, that is what we lose for not combating it and we also know that without cooperation you cannot combat piracy, but the first stage is to come together and talk.

“If all the African countries are on the same page, it would be easy to tackle the security

challenges, so we have to keep holding summits, because individual countries cannot combat piracy effectively without cooperation.

“If you try to fight them in Togo, they go to the next country, then you don’t have the mechanism to go into the other countries. So, summits are necessary, they are not even sufficient.

http://www.punchng.com/news/fighting-terrorism-oil-theft-not-easy-buhari/

Does state interference help in developing an ailing economy like Nigeria or evry other developing countries? Is it best for state to stare clear from economy and allow the market forces to determine the economic activities? (true capitalism) Your view pls

Bayelsa Governor, Dickson, Forges Nigeria’s End User Certificate In Order To Procure N100M Hacking Tools

In addition to criminally hacking phones in Nigeria, the Bayelsa state governor, Seriake Dickson, may have forged sensitive national documents in the process of buying hacking solutions from Italian firm, Hacking Team, new information emerging from our ongoing investigations have revealed.


by Emmanuel Ogala Jul 15, 2015
In addition to criminally hacking phones in Nigeria, the Bayelsa state governor, Seriake Dickson, may have forged sensitive national documents in the process of buying hacking solutions from Italian firm, Hacking Team, new information emerging from our ongoing investigations have revealed. Gov. Seriake Dickson

Investigators from the National Security Adviser’s office are now seeking to unravel how Mr. Dickson imported high caliber cyber attack tools without an End User Certificate, a prerequisite for the purchase of international defence tools – including cyber defence and warfare.

In Nigeria,  End User Certificates for such security and defence related purchases is issued only by the National Security Adviser.

The investigations followed evidences thrown up by the recent hacking of  the governor’s hacking tools provider, Hacking Team, an Italian firm which specializes in developing tools for government agencies to hack their own citizens.

Hacking Team, notorious for the ruthlessness of their intrusive hacking tools, was itself hacked early July and 415GB of client files, contracts, financial documents, and internal emails, some as recent as 2015, publicly made available for download.

Hacking Team’s records showed it worked with the Bayelsa state Governor, Seriake Dickson, and many other suppressive regimes across the world, such as  Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Bahrain and Ethiopia.

The records also showed that the firm had contracts with U.S. government agencies like FBI, the Department of Defense, and the Drug Enforcement Agency.

The Bayelsa hacking contract was channeled through NICE, an Israeli company and V&V Nigeria, another Israeli company based in Nigeria. While V&V handled the payments, NICE which had stronger business relationship with Hacking Team, handled the implementation and operation of the hacking tools.

NICE, however, appointed Skylinks Satellite Communications Limited to represent its interest in the contract.

Mr. Dickson’s hacking expedition had gone undetected until Hacking Team was hacked early July.

The Bayelsa state governor’s hacking contract with Hacking Team breached both local and international regulations.

Purchases in the category of Hacking Teams solutions require an End User Certificate from Nigeria’s National Security Adviser before any deal is sealed.

European Union laws also prohibits the sale of similar weapons without an End User Certificate issued by the national security authority of importing countries.

Internal Hacking Team’s company records show that Mr. Dickson obtained the hacking tools from the Italian firm without a genuine End User Certificate issued by the office of the National Security Adviser.

Mr. Dickson literarily byassed the office of the National Security Adviser, apparently enlisting the help of Hacking Team.

Officials officials at the Office of the National Security Adviser confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES it did not issue Mr. Dickson an End User Certificate for the purchase of the hacking tools.

“There is no way the NSA would have issued an End User Certificate for Bayelsa governor to purchase such cyber weapon,” an official told PREMIUM TIMES citing security regulations which allows only national security agencies to use such weapons. “He will need to explain how he obtained the Certificate with which he bought the tools and what laws empowered him to embark on hacking of citizens’ computers and phones.”

Rather than approach the NSA for an End User Certificate,  Hacking Team placed emphasis on the End User License Agreement, EULA – usually signed by the customer – in completing the deal.

In one email, Haim of Skylinks had demanded a “format” of the End User Certificate. Mr. Luppi replied with a format for End User License Agreement, EULA.

“We must receive the EULA officially signed by the end user,” Mr, Luppi stressed, after several email exchanges with Haim of Skylinks.

Officials of the National Security Adviser said if it were approached, it would have turned down the request.

The NSA, in one instance, turned down similar request from the former Akwa Ibom state governor, Godswill Akpabio.

“Only federal security agencies are allowed to acquire such cyber defence tools,” officials at the NSA told PREMIUM TIMES. “Mr. Dickson’s hacking activities are illegal.”

Officials in charge of issuing End User Certificates at the NSA’s office, as well as digital security experts told PREMIUM TIMES Hacking Team and Bayelsa State Government may have “forged” the End User Certificate.

The Bayelsa state government declined to comment for this story. The State Commissioner for Information, Dan Kikile, simply said “no comment”.

Skylinks could not be reached for comments. It’s known telephone numbers failed to connect the several times PREMIUM TIMES called.
 

Remote Control System [RCS]
The Remote Control System, which is at the centre of the contract, is designed to attack, infect and monitor target PCs and smartphones in a stealth way.

Once a target is infected, RCS allows attackers to access a variety of information, including Skype traffic (VoIP, chat), keystrokes, mails, messages, target positioning, files, screenshots, microphone eavesdropped data, and camera snapshots.

Susceptible operating systems include Windows XP/Vista/7 (32 & 64 bit) and Mac-OS. And smartphones like Windows Mobile, iPhone (jailbroken), Blackberry and Android.

Depending on what Mr. Dickson wanted to achieve, he had the ability to stealthily record images with  webcam images, record Skype calls or keystrokes on gadgets. He had the ability to track financial transactions or detect his target’s exact geographic location. He also had the ability to turn the microphone on on your device and listen or record live audio stream from his target’s phone.

Who did Dickson Hack?
Investigators are also seeking to determine the extent Mr. Dickson drove his hacking expeditions and who his exact victims were.
Mr. Dickson’s target in the hacking project, according to the leaked email exchanges, are people using the most advanced smartphones and latest Andriod and iOS, suggesting his targets were his political superiors, peers or associates.
 

More Nigerian Clients
“The Bayelsa hacking saga came to light a little too late, though it could point to a bigger systematic programme by the government,” said Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria.
But the Bayelsa state governor is not the only one in Nigeria who sought the services of Hacking Team.

He is also not the only one hacking devices in Nigeria at the moment.  He is, however, the only one Hacking Team lists as client, suggesting he was the only one who successfully bought Hacking Team’s solutions.

On the afternoon of May 24, 2014, Yemi Animashaun, the CEO of Tunsmos Petroleum, an oil and gas company, wrote David Vincenzetti, the CEO of Hacking Team demanding details of their hacking solution.

In her emails, Mrs Animashaun, an engineer, explained that her company was diversifying into security.

“As a company we will be interested in developing a partnership with your company, this will allow us represent, market, and introduce your stealth spyware solutions to our state intelligence agencies here in Nigeria,” she wrote.

Few emails exchanges later, Mrs. Animashaun unveiled her direct client in Nigeria. It was the Office of the National Security Adviser!

According to Mrs. Animashaun, the NSA was more interested in Hacking Team solution’s ability to decrypt secure data.

The NSA’s office declined to comment on its relationship with Tunsmos Petroleum and its CEO, Mrs Animashaun.

Evidence available to PREMIUM TIMES so far suggest the National Security Adviser failed to acquire Hacking Team’s solutions, after at least two tries.

Former Akwa Ibom governor, Godswill Akpabio also tried to acquire Hacking Team’s Galileo.

But after the office of the National Security Adviser denied him End User Certificate, Mr. Akpabio gave up and pursued other options.

The Nigeria Police Force also tried to acquire Hacking Teams solutions through two intermediaries. When these failed, the police approached the Italian company directly.

In June 2014, police actively sought Hacking Team’s Remote Control System through  Akubo Jerry Innocent, its National Technician. The police claimed it was for its Interpol unit.

This solution was also marketed to the Ministry of Defence and the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Ministry of Police Affairs, and State Security Services (SSS).

Although the SSS showed interest at some point, it later lost interest and declined purchase because it was already exclusively using similar solution supplied by a German company, Gamma Group since 2010.


http://saharareporters.com/2015/07/15/bayelsa-governor-dickson-forges-nigeria%E2%80%99s-end-user-certificate-order-procure-n100m

Mr GEJ was the world most insulted president, yet he never retaliated nor witch hunted anyone

I assure prof. Ozumba, the UNN VC that the blood of those innocent Students will be on his head. Let him hear me; unless and untill he resign from that seat and publicly appologise to the family of those innocent student and the whole academic community, he will never have rest in his life. Clueless empty head vc

Men of the Bayelsa State Police Command on Thursday arrested and detained the State Correspondent of the PUNCH, Mr. Simon Utebor, in Yenagoa.

According to a colleague of Utebor, he was arrested for taking the pictures of some areas in Otuoke, the hometown of President Goodluck Jonathan, who will hand over the Presidency to Muhammadu Buhari on Friday.

The PUNCH correspondent, whose mobile set has been switched off, was said to have been transferred to the Police Command Headquarters in Yenagoa, where he was said to have been grilled by the state Commissioner of Police.

http://www.punchng.com/news/policemen-detain-punchman-for-taking-jonathans-house-pictures/

;DRelax, Watch and Enjoy. It's Naija got talent season 0.

GEJ my hero, Obiano my role model

Im pretty sure the summit is from June 7–8. Cant this news sites get a simple date right.

I tire o. How can he be representing Nigeria while he is not yet the president?

Please matured comments only. My younger sister asked me this question but unfortunately i didn't know the best answer to give her. She asked if it's normal for one not to be having sexual urge even when exposed to occasions that will make her feel so. (i.e even when she was touched, caress and read or watch things related to sex). Although she is still a virgin. She wants to know if there is anything wrong with her OR it's just natural because she has not done it before. Please your comments

This man is just doing his things in his own way. Asili gbakwa oku. In life one no supos to dey look uche face. I don tolk ma own

Thank you all!

I taveled and came back only to meet a dead wall gecko inside my food stuff (garri). It has already started decaying. Although I've removed it, Can I still go ahead in making use of the stuff? Is it healthwise? What do I do cos the stuff is plenty - please advice me

Buhari will build better than thos ones