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Kenneth Udeh,Abuja

The Senate on Wednesday lamented the growing number of youths in correctional centres in the country due to their involvement in cyber crime, it urged those engaged in the act to take advantage of the numerous legitimate opportunities in ICT by converting their knowledge to make money and earn a
living rather than using it to commit a crime.

The Senate gave this advice at its deliberation over the motion titled GET A QUALIFIED AND CERTIFIED HOME TUTOR IF YOU STAY IN LAGOS FOR YOUR WARD/CHILD
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MrWTF post=84433053:
I make a couple of dollars everyday by doing nothing.

Nigerian youths should wisen up.

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MrWTF:
A problem of Nigeria is the dude you quoted.
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Always findimg faults instead of solutions.

I will Never Tell A Nigerian What I Do. They are bunch of unfortunate miscreants who love seeing the downfall of Others.

The Growth of Digital Technology and the Challenge of Cybercrime: Urgent Need to Safeguard the Future of Nigeria” sponsored by Sen. Yakubu, Oseni (Kogi Central).

The motion read;

“The Senate Notes that the growth of digital technology, otherwise referred to as ICT revolution has brought about improved performance in all aspects of society. It is an economic development pillar guaranteeing national competitive advantage. It has led to rapid global communication and networking, provided ease in finding detailed answers to millions of questions every day, accelerated the growth and penetration of mobile telephony and its associated multimedia services, and in deed, propelled increased end-successes in all human endeavors;

Further Notes that the world has moved into the blazing digital ecosystem accelerating at the speed of thought, with very effective concepts and disruptive innovation models such as Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Robotics, Machine Learning, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and blockchain implementation and other emerging technologies, achieving rapid improvements in the knowledge society;

Observes that digital technology also promises to make the world a much safer place, as traffic authorities anticipate a vast reduction in traffic fatalities with possibility of saving nearly 300,0001ives over 10 years with the deployment of autonomous vehicle technology, and as crime statistics could drop by over 20% with deployment of metropolitan censors and cutting edge home security remote monitoring devices, amongst other advantages;

Worried that the gains of digital technology are being dampened by rapid evolution of cybersecurity threat landscape, with increased attacks in both sophistication and severity Reports indicate that there is currently a dramatic rise in cybercrime such as the ransomware epidemic, the refocusing of malware from personal computers (PCS) and laptops to smartphones and mobile devices, the deployment of billions of underprotected Internet of Things (ioT) devices, the legion of hackers-for-hire and more sophisticated launching of attacks on governments, businesses, educational establishments, defence infrastructure, etc;

Further worried that nefarious cyber-related activities are already costing the world huge losses in trillions of dollars Recently, the NotPetya malware caused billions of dollars in damage in many industries around the world. Global ransomware damage alone has been predicted to cost the world over 11 billion dollars in 2019 and 20 billion dollars in 2021. It is also predicted that a business will fall every 14 seconds in 2019 and 11 seconds in 2021, and that overall cybercrime is predicted to cost the world over 6 trillion dollars annually from 2021;

Alarmed that Nigeria is already plagued with the destructive cyber-crises Reports indicate that in 2017 alone, the country lost about 649 million dollars (ie over N250 billion) to cybercrime activities. The 2018 Report of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Cooperation (NDIC) indicates that there were 37,817 reported fraud cases within the year, out of which 59.2% were internet and technology based, costing businesses in Nigeria several billions of naira. It is also indicated that over 81% of cyber security incidents in the country are either unreported or unresolved, leaving room for the proliferation and escalation of illicit cyber activities. In fact, the recent apprehension of 77 cyber criminals by the FBI, several of whom are Nigerians, leaves much to worry about

Concerned that Nigeria still lags behind in infrastructure sophistication, data management and digital security and Imowhow which are critical to the development agenda. In fact, federal allocation to the ICT sector of the economy can only be considered as lip service, compared to the enormity of challenges therein. Manpower development in digital technology is equally a far cry. Even in Africa, Nigeria is at the bottom of cyber security manpower ratio to total population. Our institutions of learning do not seem to understand the world we live in today. Indeed, our cyber security consciousness and awareness rating does not come before that of any other country in the world;

Aware that the 8th Senate, desirous of keeping the country ahead of the cyber-challenge, had mandated the Committee on lCT and Cybercrime to interface with stakeholders, and that the Committee kick-started the process accordingly; and

Convinced that the bar for digital readiness and cyber security must be raised if Nigeria must speed up to the digital ecosystem and proactive cyber awareness and intelligence, as well as properly positioned herself for the unending economic development opportunities that come with ICT.”

Sponsor of the motion had Senator Yakubu had during his press briefing after the Plenary described the growing of cyber crime as worrisome , he called for increased awareness of money making opportunities in the ICT sector.



He said, ” Cyber crime is something that someone will sit at the comfort of his home and commit. If we go to our Nigerian prisons today, we see our young men that were arrested for one or two cyber crimes and to me it is something that we have to prevent.

I believe in prevention rather than going after those who committed the crime. We need proper creation of awareness that this knowledge that you have , you can equally convert to good use and make money for yourself, rather than using the knowledge to commit crime.

The ICT aspect we know that any nation that wants to grow, must pay attention to technology and if we see Nigeria and the world over you will see that we are behind in terms of ICT so we seek in the motion that the Federal Government to really pay attention to ICT in terms of budgetary provision particularly in education and to catch them young we have to move from manual to digital like E-learning and all that.

Mr. President said last time of how he intends to engage millions of our youths in jobs , but these youths can’t be engaged in only Government Ministries Agencies and Departments ( MDAs) the ICT/ communication sector is one area that can engage over 15% of our youths.

Senator Stella Odua(Anambra North) in her contribution to the motion made a case for the job opportunities in the ICT sector , she cited coding aa an example while also calling for increased budgetary allocation to the ICT sector .

She said ” We are losing a lot by not tapping into cyber opportunities, I mean the technology and ICT part of it. We can recall that Microsoft announced two years ago, that in the next five years they were going to have 228,000 jobs that were going to be technology and ICT related.

My concern is that we as a country are not fully prepared to participate in this aspect. Statistically an average ICT worker earns an average of 10,000 dollars. Take for example of In my village we have a young man or woman who is certified coder and when they are coding they earn 10,000 just imagine what that would do to my community. We have graduates who may not have seen computers not to talk of operating them. The gap I see and the opportunity loss is unnecessary, we must ensure that we don’t just domesticate ICT in all our schools but to make sure that the budgetary allocation closes this gap.



The senate accordingly resolved to: Mandate the Committee on ICT and Cybercrime to re-establish engagement with stakeholders with a view to galvanizing a comprehensive and broad-based approach to addressing Nigeria’s digital technology and cyber security crises and safeguarding the present and future of the country; Further mandate the Committee on ICT and Cybercrime to establish strategic engagements with MDAs with a view to ascertaining their ICT shortfalls, cyber security constraints, data management challenges, and possible remediation measures; Permit the Committee on ICT and Cybercrime to make inputs to budgetary provisions of MDAs on Information and Communication Technology and cybersecurity issues, with a view to ensuring appropriate funding of the all-important areas of concern; and Urge the Federal Government to deliberately take up measures to improve on budgetary provisions for, and attention to the development of digital technology and cyber-dependence safety.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/digital-technologysenate-wants-cyber-criminals-to-make-legitimate-use-of-their-talent/

MrBONE2:

seangy4konji:
u r d first person am talking to this morning. ..so there for..oriburuku nie kode ni dafun e lodun tuntun yi

Spectrum22:
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bigtt76:
I hope he doesn't shave off his hair .....Ruiz punches to the head affected him badly the last time, with the hair, it might help cushion the punches.

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mercyefe200:
A working class woman identified as Jennifer Oseh has taken to her Instagram account to share the screenshot of the chat she had with a security man who confessed that he has fallen in love with her.

Jennifer revealed that she has always been kind to the security man by always giving him tips whenever they met.

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Nnemuka post=84433348:
this guy wan chop oga food too
its well

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seangy4konji:
lol

grandstar:
She has ruined everything by belittling him. She should have kept this private.

ind gesture.

In the screenshot the lady posted on IG, the man had texted her to reveal that he has feelings for her.

He went ahead to reveal to her that he would have confessed his love a while ago if he had money.

On a different day after she refused to reply to the confession, the man sent a text, asking if he could come and stay with her.

She replied and told him never to send such messages to her.

He, however, sent another message apologizing and even claimed that he was feeling lonely.

She asked if she should be worried about the message sent by the man.

See the screenshot below:

https://www.instagram.com/theladyvhodka/

https://www.ogbeta.ng/2019/11/security-man-falls-in-love-with-working.html

valentineuwakwe:
The Federal Government has received the nominal roll of about 41 universities as part of moves to capture university workers into the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System.
The Coordinator of IPPIS in the Office of the Accountant- General of the Federation , Mr Olusegun Olufehinti , confirmed the figure to one of our correspondents during a telephone interview on Wednesday.
He said the Federal Government was determined[i]GET A QUALIFIED AND CERTIFIED HOME TUTOR IF YOU STAY IN LAGOS FOR YOUR WARD/CHILD
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edoairways post=84432997:
University of Ilorin pull out from ASUU years back

AlphaStyles:
Do IPPIS or no salary for you oo

to ensure that all its employees were captured on the IPPIS platform .
While stating that the exercise was a bit delayed in some institutions due to the difficulty in getting to those locations , he said the IPPIS officials from the OAGF had arrived at all the designated locations to conduct the exercise .

We employed individuals, not unions, FG tells ASUU
He said at the end of the enrolment, only those that have been captured would be paid their salaries. Olufehinti said since the government did not employ any union , it was imperative for every employee of government to ensure they were captured on the personnel payroll platform.
The IPPIS coordinator said since the commencement of the enrolment for university workers , the rate of response had been encouraging .
He said , “ From the report we are having currently , they ( lecturers) are enrolling . The enrolment is just to take their biometrics because we have not got to payrolling . This is the first process. For now , we don’ t have problems despite their tactics.
‘ We have got 43 varsities nominal rolls ’
“ The response is encouraging . There is no cause for alarm, as of today, out of the 43 ( universities) we have received nominal roll from 41 of them. ”
He described the IPPIS platform as an integral part of the Federal Government’ s public finance reform initiatives aimed at ensuring transparency and accountability in the management of government payroll .
IPPIS is the only basis you can get salaries, FG tells lecturers
He said , “ The salary is personal and if that is the case, then we expect everyone that wants to be paid to enrol. Because that will be the only basis you can get your salary .
“ So unions were not engaged, only the individual was employed and the Federal Government is trying to ascertain the number of those employees it has in all institutions and that is what we are driving at .
“ It will help in the budgeting and every month we can ascertain how much would be required to pay nationwide .
“ So for now, they are responding and even some that did not send in their nominal rolls have done that . Because they know that if they don ’t send it, they would be sanctioned .
“ We have told them they can’ t delay this exercise . We have two weeks to do this and the number of people we capture within the two weeks, if it’ s 500 we capture in any university we assume those are the people that are there and those are the people that will be payrolled .”
IPPIS registration begins in varsities
Investigations showed that the enrolment for the IPPIS began in many federal universities across the country on Wednesday despite the opposition of the Academic Staff Union of Universities .
At the University of Jos , the Chairperson of the institution’ s Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities , Mrs Esther Ezeamah , told The PUNCH that the exercise started in the university on Wednesday.
She said that SSANU was in support of the IPPIS enrolment and that members of union had been directed to participate fully throughout the period of the exercise in line with the position of the national secretariat.
It was , however , learnt that members of ASUU in the university were not taking part in the exercise .
IPPIS officials conduct exercise at UNILORIN
Officials of the office of the AGF also started the enrolment at the University of Ilorin on Wednesday .
Although there were claims that ASUU members in the university were taking part in the exercise , the Chairman of the union in the university , Prof Moyosore Ajao, denied the claim.
The PUNCH correspondent observed that many workers of the university were at its Senate building to take part in the exercise .
A member of the enrolment team from the office of the AGF, who spoke on condition of anonymity , said both academic and no- academic staff had been coming to enrol.
When asked whether academic staff were participating in the exercise , he said , “ The first person that we attended to this morning is a lecturer he is a professor.
“ So far , the exercise has been smooth. We have not had any labour issue . The university management has been cooperating . The exercise will last for two weeks” , he said
Our correspondent also observed that the management team from the University of Ilorin were also on the ground to identity their staff before issuing forms to them.
But ASUU chairman , in an interview with The PUNCH, said , “ None of our members is participating . We have our members on the ground to monitor the exercise . ”
AGF team arrives UNN , commences enrolment
Non- teaching staff of the University of Nigeria Nsukka have started registering for the IPPIS . One of our correspondents, who monitored the exercise , said ASUU members didn’ t enrol.
A source said that ASUU set up a monitoring team to ensure that none of its members participated in the exercise .
Crisis rocks UNIPORT as students seal ASUU secretariat
But at the University of Port Harcourt , a disagreement between ASUU members and the management of the university took a fresh turn on Wednesday when some students of the university locked up the two entrances leading to the ASUU secretariat in the institution.
The students had earlier disrupted a meeting of ASUU members at the secretariat over what they said was a plan by the union in the university to embark on a strike over a disagreement bordering on the sacking of a lecturer , Prof. Frank Ugiomoh, by UNIPORT athorities.
Acting under the aegis of Students’ Union Government, the undergraduates, who were on a peaceful protest , alleged that the UNIPORT branch of ASUU had planned to withhold student ’s results for the 2018 /2019 session .
It was gathered that the threat to withhold the students ’ result was not unconnected with the termination of Ugiomoh’ s appointment.
The protesting students noted that the withholding of result would alter the students’ academic pursuits .
Students Union President, Sowari Daniel, while addressing journalists on the matter, stated that following recent developments in the institution, it was giving its support to the newly formed Congress of University Academics.
He said , “ As stakeholders in the educational sector , we view ASUU’ s latest directive to lecturers to withhold the second semester results of the 2018/ 2019 session as a deliberate and calculated attempt to hold the system to ransom and to service their selfish ego for political point. ”
“ But the Chairman of ASUU , UNIPORT Branch, Dr. Austen Sado, decried the action of the students and accused the Vice Chancellor of the University , Prof. Ndowa Lale, and the university administration of orchestrating the students’ action .
Sado said , “ Since the illegal and unjust purported termination of the appointment of Prof. Frank Ugiomoh, our union has made conciliatory efforts to de- escalate the cloud of tension hanging over the university created by the vice chancellor.
“ We made representations towards a resolution to the vice chancellor on the matter, but the vice chancellor had other ideas. In a bid to humiliate Prof. Ugiomoh and decimate our union , caution was thrown to the wind . One would have expected the administration to be a little more circumspect in dealing with the matter at hand .”
Reacting, UNIPORT Spokesman, Dr . William Wodi, said it was wrong for ASUU to drag the VC into the issue of the sack of a lecturer in the university , adding that the university ’s governing council investigated , found Ugiomoh culpable for misconduct and was sacked.
Wodi said , “ The Chairman of ASUU, Port Harcourt branch, we were told , wanted to hold a meeting to declare strike. Even if we have been told that they did not want to declare a strike, there is a letter he wrote to the vice chancellor, where he talked about activating a process. In union ’s language , activating a process means declaring a strike.
“ So, the students who are about to graduate and be mobilised for the youth service felt that if their results were withheld, which Dr . Austen Sado apparently wants to use as a weapon , their results may not be presented before the Senate. ”

source: https://punchng.com/ippis-fg-says-lecturers-enrolling-despite-asuus-opposition/