E-Business
CAPDAN Raises Alarm, Says Computer Village Under Police Siege

Computer and Allied Product Dealers at Computer Village (CAPDAN), Ikeja, have sent ‘Save Our Soul’ (SOS) message to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) over extortion and abuse of operational guideline by his men dispatched to secure or monitor the market environment.
Mr Ahmed Ojikutu, president of Computer and Allied Product Dealers Association of Nigeria (CAPDAN) in a telephone interview with Nigeria CommunicationsWeek alleged that the officer attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) are making lives miserable for their members, calling on the IG for a wide-range investigation.
According to Mr. Ojikutu, SARS officer make over N7million weekly from the market following indiscriminate arrests and harassment of traders and other technicians predominately young people.
He said that several frantic efforts to attract higher police authority’s attentions to the cases yielded no meaningful results.
In Mr. Ojikutu’s words, “The officers and men of the Force have turned Computer Village to an ATM which will not accept any longer. With racking technology, it is easier to dictate who stole a phone. Meanwhile, the buyer of such phone is traced to Computer Village, men of the Force would arrest anybody that, out of omission or Commission, touched the phone. Computer Village is made up of young people who are daily struggling to make a living.
“So, when a customer comes to shop one and the device they need is not there, the shop owner wouldn’t just allow the customer to leave. He will approach owners of shop two or any other who has such device and sell. We are not denying the fact that in a market of such magnitude there must be bag eggs.
“But, even among the Police officers there are bad eggs. So, what the Nigerian Police officers do is that when a phone is lost and tracked to Computer village, they would arrest about ten people who might have touched the phone in one way of the other; and they are bailed with up to N250,000.00.
“I have met with the Commissioner of Police in Lagos, the two Area Commanders, reported to the constituted authorities, but the officers in the field are not willing to change.
I think there will be imminent protect that will shake the town. We are awaiting to exhaust the last line to be aware of what is happening.
Have You Addressed Members to Shun Stolen Items?
“We have spoken to them, but the truth is that technology has advanced. People will still sell their used phones or swap it, so, the issue around genuineness of a phone will still be there. Therefore, if there was an armed robbery or kidnapping case, technology has so advanced that it will be easy to dictate who first handled the phone, the location and time. Let the police arrest the culprit and not rope in others just to enlarge their pockets.
“On our side we are working against illicit practices and have set code of conducts for our members. The Police should do their work with all sense of diligence and professionalism not the current self-serving and extortions in the name of arrests. It leads to a lot of frame ups. They do this daily. At this end, we are saying no it. In fact, we don’t know if they have collaborators who are more interested in seeing these suffering young people undergo series of harassments in the hands of the Police.
“Computer Village is made up of mostly young people; and where young people are, they are bound to commit crime, but that shouldn’t give anyone the impetus to one to abuse those genuinely going about their businesses.
“It is a burning issue, and technology has come to stay. So, let them arrest the criminals and prosecute them. Under one week we countered cases where the Police collected over seven million naira (N7million). Though, we have reported to the authorities it has continued. When you push people to the wall, when they turn against you it will be fierce and brutal.
“The Inspector General (IG) of Police is a good man, the Commission of Police in Lagos, a good officer, the Area Commander in Ikeja is doing fantastic job, therefore, we don’t know who are giving the corrupt and bad eggs in the Police force the audacity to traumatize us in our business area. Who are these bad eggs? If people want to revolute they will not consider those who are good, the general aphorism would be ‘Nigerian Police is Bad’”.
Fighting Crime, Substandard Devices and Perpetuators
He expressed CAPDAN’s readiness to work with relevant government bodies in the fight against crime, and riding the market of substandard products.
The CAPDAN president told Nigeria CommunicationsWeek whereas they are ready to collaborate, no cartel or interest can be above the government.
“So, if there were cartels cloning others’ phones, it wouldn’t be like they can’t be stopped, but without direct involvement of constituted authorities like the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to clamp down, it is not going to be very easy. Therefore, we need their direct collaboration to rid the country of these substandard or cloned phones which constitute problems to the innocent citizens. We are open to partnerships, needing the backing of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), etc., but the bureaucratic settings usually cause challenge to get effective collaboration. If you want to clamp down, we are ready to volunteer information that will assist you. When the cartel know it is not profitable any more to import substandard products, they will naturally leave the market and the public will be the direct beneficiaries.
Advice to End Users
“We are coming up with a product called ‘Phone-Range; an online platform to assist buyers check the genuinely or otherwise of any device they want to buy at the Computer Village. We will notify the public about the solution when it is unveiled”.
However, efforts to get reactions from the Police Public Relations Officer for Lagos State proved abortive.
E-Business
Kaspersky Transforms Threat Intelligence Reporting into an Interactive Content Hub

Easy interaction with exclusive Kaspersky reports, geo-filtering and actionable intelligence in a single click: expert insights on Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), Crimeware and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) threats are now available directly in Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal — with charts and visuals rendered inline.

In an era of increasingly sophisticated and frequent attacks, threat intelligence inevitably evolves into a business enabler that equips security teams with strategic advantage in their mission to back their company’s stability and growth.
Kaspersky, a recognised leader in threat intelligence, facilitates informed decision-making and proactive risk mitigation by introducing simplified access to actionable and relevant threat insights.
Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Reporting is a subscription-based service delivering over 200 in-depth analysis reports annually. These insights are compiled by Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team, Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team and Threat Research experts through the continuous tracking of more than 900 threat actors and campaigns.
Following the update, all reports previously representing a library of static PDF files (that is more than 2000 exclusive Kaspersky reports published to date) are now structured and can be examined directly in the Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal. For offline use, the standard PDF download format remains available as well.
The update also introduces deeper integration within each report, featuring direct links to indicators of compromise (IoCs), detection rules (including YARA), and MITRE ATT&CK® techniques. Users can now perform a single-click drill-down into specific threat actors, malware families and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) across diverse geographies and industries.
Smart geo-filtering streamlines investigations by prioritising content explicitly mentioning a selected country, followed by broader regional intelligence, giving analysts a complete geographic view in a single query.
Enhanced Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Reporting supports the following use cases:
- Customised content discovery: apply geo, industry and software filters to instantly retrieve a list of relevant reports.
- Exclusive intelligence: access the most recent incident investigation reports, including those without public disclosure, to understand the nature of an attack and identify the actions required for mitigation.
- Actionable intelligence extraction: extract and apply threat data from the reports and apply it across specific infrastructure to detect traces of compromise.
- In-depth Threat Lookup and contextual analysis: investigate suspicious indicators identified within the network and quickly determine if a specific IoC is linked to a related threat report.
“Empowering cybersecurity teams in their mission-critical daily work to ensure business resilience in a complex threat landscape. This is the main driver behind our ongoing visual and functional improvement initiative.
While updating Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal, we focused on refining the customer experience by optimising processes of active investigation, proactive incident monitoring and detailed mitigation techniques,” comments Alexander Mazikin, Head of Threat Intelligence Product Line at Kaspersky.
E-Business
Weebly Websites to Shut Down for Nigeria, 66 Other Countries from September

Weebly, US-based free, beginner-friendly, drag-and-drop website builder and eCommerce service, will no longer be available for customers in 67 countries, including Nigeria, after September 2026, according to an email seen by Nigeria CommunicationsWeek.

Weebly said it is “winding down” services in different nations “due to changes in regulation and to simplify our global operations”.
The firm released a timeline of gradual changes, to help existing users access their data before the site shuts down.
Starting June 29, customers of 67 countries were no longer able to publish any new pages.
September 27, 2026: Weebly websites will be unpublished.
Before this date, users should download site content and data. Follow these steps:
Go to Account Settings, click on My Data, and select Download My Data.
This will help you migrate your content to another website provider, or retain it.
Concerned about privacy? Ask Weebly to delete your data, through the Erase Data and Forget Me option under the My Data tab on your account page.
December 26, 2026: Last date of accessing Weebly account.
Until this date, you will have access to the account, although sites will be unpublished.
This period helps users move their site, domains, and data to another service.
Domain names can be moved to another registrar only after 60 days from the registration date.
According to the Weebly website, users must make sure that they do not make changes to your registrant contact information (email, phone number, first/last name), as this will lead to a 60-day registrar lock and prevent you from transferring your domain name.
Note that domain name transfers work differently for country-specific domains; users must contact Weebly’s support team for assistance.
How to unlock, transfer domain name
From your Weebly Dashboard, go to websites, and click on Domains, then select Manage Domain.
Disable registrar lock, get EPP authorisation code, and copy the full code.
Disabling registrar lock will also disable privacy protection. It is important to set privacy protection once again with the new registrar.
Follow the instructions for the newly chosen registrar as the rest of the transfer process will be managed by them
Why is Weebly winding down?
While the firm attributed it to “a change in regulation,” online users have argued that Square, which acquired Weebly in 2018, is pushing its platform ‘Square Online’.
Square is originally a US-based payment processor, and the firm says it has since evolved into the “largest business tech platform”.
It calls Square Online a “free online store” but clarifies that those who do not sell online can also use it to build their websites.
In an earlier support update for the Weebly Website Builder, Square Online was consistently referred to as a better alternative, although at the time, it was said that Square “has no plans to discontinue the Weebly website builder”.
Which countries will Weebly no longer be available in? Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbadoa, Belarus, Benin and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Others are: Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, and Côte d’Ivoire.
Also affected are: Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, French Polynesia, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Iceland, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal and New Caledonia.
The rest are: Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Korea, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
E-Business
NOTAP to Commercialise University Research, Expands Patent Drive

National Office for Technology Acquisition and Transfer (NOTAP), has commenced the process of patenting and commercialisation of research works by universities and other research institutions in the country.

Dr. Obiageli Amadiobi, director general of NOTAP
Dr. Obiageli Amadiobi, director general of NOTAP, stated this in Abuja, during an interaction with journalists on her achievements since assuming office.
Speaking on the theme, “Strengthening Indigenous Capacity: NOTAP’s Drive for Technology Transfer, Local Content Development, and Innovative activities,” Amadiobi said the agency had involved both the academia and industry so that researchers can work on topics brought forward for commercialisation purpose.
“My minister is very intentional about this– very intentional about commercialisation of research results, which we have already submitted to him. They are meaningful researches, which we need to commercialise.
“We have established 69 intellectual property technology transfer offices in 69 universities that we are still counting. We have informed the vice chancellors of Nigerian universities to set up such offices and we will come and educate them on intellectual property and technology transfers.
“As we are doing this, we are also taking record of all the researchers of these universities and research centres and documenting them in a compendium.
“So, we have compendiums from the universities to us and we put them in a database. If you will recall, recently, the ministry, our supervising ministry, which is the Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Technology, launched a programme titled Energise Commercialisation. This entirely was for commercialisation of all R&Ds,” she said.
On research Institutions carrying out research on areas of industry needs, she said, “NOTAP is bridging the gap between research and development with industry needs, “it is on our programme called the NITDF, NOTAP Industry Technology Transfer Fellowship. By this programme, we engage the universities and the industries, in what we call the triple helix. We liaise with the universities and the industries to sponsor, the industries will sponsor a Ph.D candidate in a Nigerian university to conduct relevant researches.
“They will provide the topics that they want researches for and such students will research on that with the assistance of the industries, because they wear the shoes, so they know where it pinches them. But usually, there are Ph.D candidates already established. This year alone, we certified about 15 of them to enter into this programme and they have gone into the various universities.
“And we are still looking for people to update some of the projects; the research topics we already have. But we are not getting enough persons to do the researches. So, we are going to do further advertisement to see if other candidates will come up.
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