Hackers From Europe Attempted To Hack FEC Meetings 66 Times-Pantami

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has disclosed that hackers from Europe made attempts to hack the virtual meetings of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) 66 times. 

Team@orientactualmags.com learned Pantami , who said this in Abuja during  the 19th edition of the President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) Administration Scorecard Series (2015-2023), noted that all these instances were reported to the appropriate authorities. 

He noted that no fewer than 108 virtual federal cabinet meetings had been held since the National Policy on Virtual Engagements for Federal Public Institutions began in October 2020 which was done to formalize government online meetings including those of the FEC and the Council of State.

The minister added  that  the implementation of the virtual meetings,  had saved the country from spending  over N47 billion on  physical meetings while submitting that more than 2.2 million jobs had  also been created in the nation’s digital sector in the last three years. 

Pantami attributed the challenges in telecommunications to infrastructure deficit and vandalization of fibre optic cables. 

He said in one particular year, about 13,000 cases of vandalisation of fibre optic cables were recorded at different locations in the country.  

The minister put broadband penetration as of November 2022 at 46. 2 per cent, and quarterly revenue generation from the ICT sector at N408 billion. 

‘This falls under cybercrime. Cybercrime is under the office of the national security advisor and other security institutions. 

Our role in cyber security is to ensure we minimize the possibility of a criminal deploying technology to commit a crime. So our work is proactive. At the same time, if the crime is committed and our intervention is required officially then we are going to intervene.  

 So, here when it comes to minimizing the probability of criminals committing a crime, we need to reintroduce the national NIN and civil registrations. Two, we enforce the NIN registration. NIN registration is by our law in Nigeria, NIN is mandatory for all citizens’  he submitted while responding to a reporter’s question on why the government has failed to track kidnappers who do put a call through to family members of captives to demand ransom despite the SIM card registration- Team@orientactualmags.com
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