A Benin High Court on Wednesday sentenced one Emmanuel Esene, 24, to two years in prison for Internet fraud. The Presiding Judge, Justice Williams Aziegbemhin, also ordered that he should forfeit one IPhone 14 pro max, the instrument with which he committed the crime to the Federal Government. The judge said he should also forfeit…

A new report has identified Twitter (X) as the leading platform for online harm in Nigeria, with 34 per cent of users reporting negative experiences such as cyberbullying, misinformation, and harassment. Ms Shirley Ewang, Advocacy Lead at Gatefield, disclosed this to newsmen on Friday in Abuja. The State of Online Harms in Nigeria report, which…

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's satellite internet service Starlink has launched in Yemen, provoking the anger of Iran-backed Huthi rebels in the country shattered by civil war. The company run by the world's richest person announced its arrival in Yemen, one of the world's least developed countries, in a post on social media platform X which…

The alleged government's deliberate disruption of Internet services during the #EndBadGovernance protests has raised concerns about a growing trend of authoritarianism in the country. Condemning the move, civil society organisations argued that it violates Nigeria's international human rights obligations and domestic constitutional guarantees. According to the Enhancing Digital Rights in Nigeria (e-RIGHTS) Project partners, "By…

There appears to be network downtime as telecommunication subscribers are currently lamenting the inability to call and especially access the Internet. Contrary to belief that it may be deliberate because of the protest, industry sources linked the slow service, which began Thursday, to damaged fibre and external sabotage. “A fibre manhole of one of the…

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A major Internet disruption hit West and Central Africa, yesterday, the Internet observatory, Netblocks said, citing reports from operators of multiple subsea cable failures.

Major internet access cuts struck several African countries Thursday because of damage to submarine communications cables, telecom operators said. "Breaks in multiple major undersea cables have affected connectivity services in several West African countries," the South African operator MTN Group said in a post on X. It said it was trying to reroute internet traffic…