On Friday, we woke up to see another hacking of Nigerian Federal agency website. This time, it was EFFC – a corruption watchdog that should be a beacon of security. The guys protesting on the fuel subsidy dropped this message:

 

“The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained Managing Director of CONOIL, Mike Adenuga, Managing Director of African Petroleum, Femi Otedola, Managing Director of MRS, Sayyu Dantata and others; as well as officials of the PPPRA and NNPC who defrauded the nation to the tune of several billions of Naira.

Twenty-one (21) executive directors have been detained in all and at the moment been interrogated over fresh information that they allegedly stole fuel subsidy funds. More information will be released later.”

 

It is a hoax – there is nothing like that. Over the last few months, government websites have been hacked and it seems our nation has no solution to this. It is time someone has a plan to stop this problem before these guys declare a war  before people know it is not real. Imagine if they post what we cannot even write here on government websites and the stock market panics and Nigeria gets into real trouble. We need a solution and our ICT experts must be brought in to help protect and secure the sites.

EEFCC, what a shame that your site is that porous. Who knows if you have a way of protecting our national legal assets in your possessions.

Despite this statement we reported yesterday that was issued by Nelson Mattos, Google’s Product & Engineering VP for Emerging Markets, does Mocality have a legal basis to sue?

“We were mortified to learn that a team of people working on a Google project improperly used Mocality’s data and misrepresented our relationship with Mocality to encourage customers to create new websites. We’ve already unreservedly apologised to Mocality. We’re still investigating exactly how this happened, and as soon as we have all the facts, we’ll be taking the appropriate action with the people involved.”

Can Mocality sue Google for damaging their business? Evidence shows the Google has tried to deceive and trick customers. This is identity theft at corporate level. If you read the whole episode, Google has committed a crime and Mocality must seek legal advice to begin a proceeding.

Tekedia thinks that Google should be sued for $10m to cover the corporate calamities their actions have caused Mocality. Mocality, retain a lawyer in U.S. and begin this process. Do not bother in Kenya as Google will influence it.

Google search is about to get way more personal, and in a very big way. They certainly want to pick more market share from Microsoft Bing and crush that empire. Google has a vision to dominate and rule as a monopolist, simply by having the best technology – this is not a bad way of becoming one, though.

In a change that’s been called the “most radical transformation ever” to Google’s search engine, the Mountain View, California, company on Tuesday announced an update called “Search, plus Your World,” which causes Google’s robots to incorporate data from its social network as well as the public Internet when delivering search results to people.

“Search is pretty amazing at finding that one needle in a haystack of billions of Web pages, images, videos, news and much more,” Google said in a blog post on Tuesday morning.

“But clearly, that isn’t enough. You should also be able to find your own stuff on the Web, the people you know and things they’ve shared with you, as well as the people you don’t know but might want to … all from one search box.”

The company added: “Search is simply better with your world in it.” And it is getting better, daily, with that G+ robot moving around!

Nigerians’ access to internet as at November ending is 3.6 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said.

The NBS in its 2011 Annual Socio-Economic Report Access to ICT said Lagos state is leading with 27 percent, while Rivers state and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) recorded 10 percent respectively.

“While less than half of the population (44.7%) had access to TV, more than 95% of the population does not have access to either the PC or the internet”.

It said that the states with least access to personal computers (PCs) are Sokoto with 0.3 percent access to internet access rates, while Kebbi, Kano, Bauchi, and Ebonyi states recorded one percent access rates each.

The survey also revealed that the urban dwellers have more access and ownership of internet service at 11.6 percent when compare with rural dwellers at 1.5 percent.

It said that access to radio and mobile phones has dominance over other devices such as television, PCs and internet.

The statistical body said access to mobile phones ranked second highest with nearly half of the population claiming access as it recording 63.9 percent while access to radio was put at 82.9 percent and TV access was put at 44.7 percent