2023 Census: Over 1,000 Hacking Attempts On Our Server Foiled – NPC Commissioner

The Kogi State Federal Commissioner for National Population Census (NPC), Professor Jimoh Habibat Isah, has dispelled rumours making the rounds that the commission’s server has been hacked.

Addressing newsmen on Tuesday, he said although there were over one thousand glitches on the server by hackers, the inbuilt mechanism has made it impregnable for the  infiltrators.

He explained that the server was built with imputation of different passwords at every stage of its operation only known to the commission, making it  difficult for hackers to cause havoc on the system.

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He said in a bid to pass relevant messages to the populace, series of sensitisation, awareness and advocacy programmes have  being carried out adding that publicity Committee has been inaugurated at the center and states in order to reach the grassroots with reliable messages that will arouse the interest of the citizenry to participate in the forthcoming population and House Census.

While stressing the importance of the National Population exercise to national planning and development, he said the government has committed both human and material resources to ensure its success.

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The Commissioner said to discourage the contentious issue of ethnicity and creed, the commission decided to remove tribe and religion from its questionnaire to be administered during the exercise.

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