Ghana’s President John Mahama’s verified X account was hacked for 48 hours, with cybercriminals using it to promote a fraudulent cryptocurrency project, his spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday.
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Artificial intelligence is turbocharging organised crime, from creating child sexual abuse images to money laundering via cryptocurrency, Europol warned Tuesday, with advances like quantum computing only poised to make things worse.
Google said Tuesday it will acquire cloud security platform Wiz for $32 billion, citing the need for greater cybersecurity capacity as artificial intelligence embeds itself in technology infrastructure.
Nigeria is facing a critical funding shortfall in its efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB), with an estimated 80,000 expected TB patients in 2024 still unidentifiable or untreated.
As Nigeria gets set to mark 2025 World TB Day, government has vowed to eliminate the disease amid alarming statistics ranking the country 1st in Africa and 6th globally among 30 high-burden TB nations.
The University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) has become Nigeria’s first NSCC-NBTE/UNESCO Centre of Excellence-accredited National Skills Qualification (NSQ) training provider for Geriatric Social Care.
Renowned Nigerian physician, Dr Tochi Okwor, said that the 2018 Lassa fever outbreak exposed critical gaps in the nation’s infection prevention and control (IPC) system.
The Executive Secretary of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW), Dr Rashid Mbaziira, has identified inadequate financing as a major barrier to achieving Africa’s water security and development goals.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has invested over $8 billion in water infrastructure across 40 African countries since 2000, benefiting more than 92 million people.
The Federal Government of Nigeria, in partnership with Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development (SRADeV), is making strides to upgrade the lead-acid battery recycling sector across Africa.