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How Bank Accounts Are Hacked Revealed

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2 years ago

August 1, 2023

Ademola, one of the suspects in a syndicate that specialised in hacking into bank customers’ portals to move money from different customers’ accounts has narrated how he and his syndicate hack customers’ accounts.

Two suspected members of the syndicate were arrested by the Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos with the recovery of victims’ SIM cards with which monies were withdrawn.

It was gathered that a preliminary investigation by the zone revealed that the suspects identified as Yusuf Ademola (40) and Adeshina Abiodun (50), arrested in their hideout in the Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State, had succeeded in moving money from no fewer than 1,000 bank customers’ accounts.

Members of the syndicate, it was gathered, were spread all over the country and were very coordinated, as some of them specialised in collating SIM cards from stolen phones from one state, passed them to another team that would sort out the victims’ banks, before transferring them to their members in other states, who would use the bank’s code to get the victim’s other details that would enable them to withdraw money electronically.

Ademola, who claimed during an interrogation that he was a mere errand boy to the syndicate said: “One of my friends in Kano State gave me a telephone number to help him open an account in an old generation bank. I knew him in Kano when I was serving in Nasarawa State.

“I called Adeshina (pointing to the second suspect) to open an account with the phone number. But he said he already had an account with the bank. All he did was to go back to the bank to change the phone number, after which I informed my friend in Kano that an account had been opened with the telephone number he gave me.

“After one hour, he sent me N1.2 million, out of which I gave Adeshina N500,000. I don’t know how he did it. But I knew he was a yahoo guy (internet fraudster). He only told me the money was the fee for opening an account with the number he gave me.

“So far, I have opened three different accounts for my friend in Kano. He gave me N20,000 the first time, N300,000 the second time and this is the third time.

“The Police arrested Adeshina first and he brought them to my house, after he told them I was the one that gave him the telephone number.”

On his part, Adeshina admitted to having replaced the telephone number in his account with the one given to him by Ademola.

He said: “I agreed to change the number because he said someone wanted to use the bank account. This was done six months ago. But the Police tracked me with the number on the account,” Vanguard quoted him.

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US Suspends Work Visas For Nigerian, Foreign Truck Drivers

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13 hours ago

August 23, 2025

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The United States government has suspended the issuance of work visas for Nigerian and other foreign truck drivers, citing job security concerns and safety risks for American citizens.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the decision on Thursday, saying it takes immediate effect.

According to him, the rising number of foreign truck drivers on U.S. highways is both threatening lives and reducing opportunities for American truckers.

“Effective immediately, we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers.

“The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers,” Rubio said.

The move comes under President Donald Trump’s renewed clampdown on immigration since returning to office in January 2025.

As part of new measures, travellers from countries with high visa overstay rates or weak travel databases will be required to pay a bond of $5,000 to $15,000 before obtaining certain categories of visas.

The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria also directed all visa applicants to disclose their social media handles from the past five years, warning that failure to comply could result in denial of applications and possible ineligibility for future visas.

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Judge Orders Closure Of Trump’s Controversial ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Camp

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1 day ago

August 22, 2025

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A US federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration and Florida state government from bringing any new migrants to the detention centre known as “Alligator Alcatraz” and ordered much of the site to be dismantled, effectively shuttering the facility.

Florida’s government swiftly announced it would appeal the decision.

The detention centre was hastily assembled in just eight days in June with bunk beds, wire cages and large white tents at an abandoned airfield in Florida’s Everglades wetlands, home to a large population of alligators.

President Donald Trump, who has vowed to deport millions of undocumented migrants, visited the centre last month, boasting about the harsh conditions and joking that the reptilian predators will serve as guards.

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Japan City Mulls Two-hour Daily Smartphone Limit

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1 day ago

August 22, 2025

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A Japanese city will urge all smartphone users to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school under a proposed ordinance that includes no penalties.

The limit, which will be recommended for all residents in central Japan’s Toyoake City, will not be binding, and there will be no penalties incurred for higher usage, according to the draft ordinance.

The proposal aims “to prevent excessive use of devices causing physical and mental health issues… including sleep problems,” Mayor Masafumi Koki said in a statement on Friday.

The draft urges elementary school students to avoid smartphones after 9:00 pm, and junior high students and older are advised not to use them after 10:00 pm.

The move prompted an online backlash, with many calling the plan unrealistic.

“I understand their intention, but the two-hour limit is impossible,” one user wrote on social media platform X.

“In two hours, I cannot even read a book or watch a movie (on my smartphone),” wrote another.

Others said smartphone use should be a decision for families to make for themselves.

The angry response prompted the mayor to clarify that the two-hour limit was not mandatory, emphasising that the guidelines “acknowledge smartphones are useful and indispensable in daily life”.

The ordinance will be considered next week, and if passed, it will come into effect in October.

In 2020, the western Kagawa region issued a first-of-its-kind ordinance calling for children to be limited to an hour a day of gaming during the week, and 90 minutes during school holidays.

It also suggested children aged 12 to 15 should not be allowed to use smartphones later than 9:00 pm, with the limit rising to 10:00 pm for children between 15 and 18.

Japanese youth spend slightly over five hours on average a day online on weekdays, according to a survey published in March by the Children and Families Agency.