The website of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) — www.nigerianstat.gov.ng — has remained inaccessible for three weeks after it was hacked.
Checks by TheCable on Monday showed that the website can not
be reached according to feedback from the landing page.
Efforts to reach Ichedi Sunday, head of communications at
the NBS, were unsuccessful.
The website breach was confirmed by the NBS on December 18,
2024, in a post published on X.
In the post, NBS asked members of the public to ignore any
report published on its website until it recovers the website.
The hack was reported a day after the NBS published its
crime experience and security perception survey.
In the report, the NBS said Nigerians paid N2.23 trillion as
ransom in one year between May 2023 and April 2024.
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NBS indicated that an estimated 51.89 million crime
incidents were recorded across Nigerian households during the period.
The report said the north-west recorded the highest crime
incidents estimated to be over 14 million, while the south-east has the least
with over six million cases.
According to the publication, the crime incidence in the
rural area (26,526,069) was higher than that of the urban area (25,360,963).
On December 19, reports emerged that the Department of State
Services (DSS) invited Adeniran Adeyemi, statistician-general of the
federation, for questioning on the report.
However, NBS denied the report, saying that no invitation or
arrest had occurred.
Since the bureau confirmed the hack, NBS has not provided
further updates on the restoration of its website or any progress in addressing
the hacking incident.
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