E-Business
Wikimedia Calls on Nigerians to Write Wikipedia Articles.

Wikipedia has come a long way since it was established in January 15, 2001. At first, the founder of the encyclopedia, Jimmy Wales wondered if the project will survive.
The first version of Wikipedia was called Nupedia.
Initially, Wikipedia was intended to complement Nupedia, an online encyclopedia project edited solely by experts, by providing additional draft articles and ideas for it.
In practice, Wikipedia quickly overtook Nupedia, becoming a global project in multiple languages and inspiring a wide range of other online reference projects.
Today, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference websites, attracting 374 million unique visitors monthly as of September 2015. There are over 73,000 active contributors working on more than
38,000,000 articles in 290 languages including Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo language.
There are vital opportunities for Wikipedia to tap external expertise and enlarge its base of editors. It is also the most promising way to solve the considerable and often-noted gender gap among Wikipedia editors.
In 2011, less than 15 percent of Wikipedia’s editors were women. Africa is among the continents where Wikipedia recorded low number of active editors.
If Wikipedia ever hopes to be able to achieve is vision of providing “the sum of human knowledge to everyone, everywhere, for free” then increasing the size of the editing communities on African language Wikipedia is extremely important.
There is no doubt that larger and stronger community of editors will leads to more articles of higher quality, which in turn makes that language version of Wikipedia ever more useful and relevant.
Like most African countries, there are low number of people contributing to Wikipedia from Nigeria. This could be as a result of lack of awareness and lack of periodic training to new volunteers.
Currently, the Yoruba Wikipedia have few active editors, the Hausa and Igbo Wikipedia have no active editors. These appears to be a major priority to the Wikimedia Foundation’s affiliate in Nigeria, the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria.
“Yoruba, Hausa, and Igbo language Wikipedia need urgent attention. These language versions of Wikipedia remain a topmost priority of our group. Over 90% of the contents in these language Wikipedia are written by bots and they are poorly written”. Said Olaniyan Olushola, a co-founder of the Wikimedia Foundation’s affiliate and the Team Lead of Wikimedia User Group Nigeria.
On 12 January 2016, a notable Wikipedia editor in Nigeria, and advocate for the improvement of Nigeria-related content on Wikipedia who is also the Manager of Wikipedia Education Program in Nigeria, Olatunde Isaac established the Yoruba language branch of “The Wikipedia Library”.
There is no doubt that this idea will improve the quality of contents on these language Wikipedia. Outreach to Nigerian universities is most likely to increase the number of editors from Nigeria.
Over 85% of Nigerian students and scholars Visit Wikipedia on a daily basis to source for information. Student use Wikipedia as a major resource for assignments and classwork.
A recent research suggests that student prefer a computer based assignment to the traditional paper-based assignment.
Nigeria’s Government, through the ministry of education could partner with the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) that owns Wikipedia through their affiliate in Nigeria to train academics on how to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool as well as to train students on how to edit and create articles on Wikipedia.
This will not only improve the students skills in reading, writing, researching, critical thinking, translation, communication, and collaboration but students will also gain information and media literacy; and deepen their understanding of copyright, plagiarism, citation, and digital citizenship.
In 2014, the Israel’s Government through the Ministry of Education and Wikimedia Israel, an affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation engaged in similar partnership.
Education Minister Rabbi Shai Piron said, “It is important to us that the education system in Israel leads in innovation and cooperating with Wikipedia is a wonderful opportunity to think outside the box and enable students in Israel to do things that make a difference from which others can also benefit.”
The founder, Jimmy Wales, says; the mission of Wikipedia is much more bigger than just creating a killer website. That is, it has a larger mission of affecting the world in a positive way.
E-Business
Microsoft Servers Hacked by Chinese Groups

Chinese “threat actors” have hacked Microsoft’s SharePoint document software servers and targeted the data of the businesses using it, the firm has said.
China state-backed Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon as well as China-based Storm-2603 were said to have “exploited vulnerabilities” in on-premises SharePoint servers, the kind used by firms, but not in its cloud-based service.
The US tech giant has released security updates in response and has advised all on-premises SharePoint server customers to install them.
“Investigations into other actors also using these exploits are still ongoing,” Microsoft said in a statement.
The firm said it had “high confidence” the hackers would continue to target systems which have not installed its security updates.
It added that it would update its website blog with more information as its investigation continues.
Microsoft said it had observed attacks in which hackers had sent a request to a SharePoint server “enabling the theft of the key material by threat actors”.
Charles Carmakal, chief technology officer at Mandiant Consulting firm, a division of Google Cloud, told reporter, it was “aware of several victims in several different sectors across a number of global geographies”.
Carmakal said it appeared that governments and businesses that use SharePoint on their sites were the primary target.
A number of adversaries who stole material encoded by cryptography were then able to regain ongoing access to the victims’ SharePoint data, he said.
“This was exploited in a very broad way, very opportunistically before a patch was made available. That’s why this is significant,” Carmakal said.
Carmakal said the “China-nexus actor” was deploying techniques similar to previous campaigns associated with Beijing.
Microsoft said Linen Typhoon had “focused on stealing intellectual property, primarily targeting organizations related to government, defence, strategic planning, and human rights” for 13 years.
It added that Violet Typhoon had been “dedicated to espionage”, primarily targeting former government and military staff, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, higher education, the media, the financial sector and the health sector in the US, Europe, and East Asia.
Meanwhile, Storm-2603 was “assessed with medium confidence to be a China-based threat actor”.
E-Business
NIMC Warns Nigerians of Fake NIN Website

National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has issued a public warning that it is not associated with NINcard.com.
According to the commission, the website has been circulating online to offer services for Nigerians seeking National Identification Number (NIN) services.
NIMC, in a post on its official X account on Wednesday, said, “NINcard.com is not in anyway affiliated to NIMC. Stay vigilant!”
The warning was accompanied by screenshots of fake payment receipts and OTP request pages from the website, both of which were boldly stamped “FAKE” by NIMC to alert the public.
E-Business
NITDA, API Partner Against Harmful Online Content

National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), in partnership with the Advocacy for Policy and Innovation (API), has convened a one-day workshop in Abuja to advance dialogue on the draft Online Harm Protection (OHP) Bill to confront harmful online content.
The bill, a rights-based, locally rooted, and multi-stakeholder initiative, is aimed at addressing the challenges of the digital age.
The event, which held yesterday, brought together government officials, civil society, academics, digital platforms, and legal experts to shape a policy framework designed to combat online ills such as cyberbullying, disinformation, hate speech, digital exploitation, and gender-based violence, while safeguarding democratic freedoms and digital inclusion.
In his keynote remarks, Kashifu Inuwa, director general, NITDA urged a paradigm shift in the way society engages with digital technologies.
“For almost two decades, we have viewed digital technology through a consumer lens. But these technologies are not just products and services. They are transforming how we live, work, and interact. They shape our politics, our society, and our democracy,” he said.
Warning against unaccountable digital power in the hands of private corporations, the DG likened the digital journey to the tale of Alice in Wonderland, where initial fascination with innovation has given way to deeper concerns about privacy, autonomy, and manipulation by big tech platforms.
“We thought we were using Google, but now we realise Google is using us. Social media, once a tool of expression, has become a tool of surveillance and influence,” Inuwa noted.
He, therefore, emphasised the urgency of developing a democratic and accountable framework. He explained that following the 2021 Twitter ban, NITDA facilitated dialogue between the government and platform operators, leading to a Code of Practice that stressed Nigeria’s sovereignty and legal standards.
According to him, the same process birthed the multi-stakeholder steering committee and the OHP White Paper in December 2024, laying the foundation for the current legislative push.
Earlier in her opening remarks, Victoria Manya, co-founder, API, observed the moral and civic necessity of the bill.
Her words: “The internet did not break society, it merely revealed its unfiltered version. Every day, Nigerians are exposed to harassment, disinformation, exploitation, and even algorithmic violence. The OHP Bill is not a war on the Internet. It is a peace offering to its users, a social contract for a digital future that is safe, inclusive, and democratic.
“We cannot answer the question of algorithmic power with unchecked state control. We must answer it with shared, rights-based governance. This bill must not be written for the people, but with them.”
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