Emmanuel Simeon

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[Emmanuel Simeon @EmmaSimeon]

My Ethical Hacking IQ is 216—that’s better than 87% of my peers! What's your #PluralsightIQ? https://t.co/AHgJn1ykR6

[josh chuck @joshchuck1]

I recently asked a writer to help with some content, and when he sent it back, I could immediately tell it had been generated with AI. That wasn’t the problem. I use AI almost every day. The problem was that I could have replaced my brand’s name with almost any other company’s, and the content would still have worked.

That made me realize something.

As AI makes good content easier to produce, brand voice becomes even more important. If everyone has access to the same tools, the advantage shifts from creating more content to creating content that couldn’t have come from anyone else.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Fellow Nigerians, good morning.

I woke up this morning after my church service with a deeply reflective heart, and despite every constraint, I felt compelled to share these thoughts with you.

Many people do not truly understand the silent pains some of us carry daily—the private struggles, emotional burdens, and quiet battles we face while trying to survive and serve sincerely in difficult circumstances.

We now live in an environment that has become increasingly toxic, where the very system that should protect and create opportunities for decent living often works against the people—a society where intimidation, insecurity, endless scrutiny, and discouragement have become normal.

More painful is when some of those you associate with, believing you would find understanding and solidarity among them, become part of the pressure you face. Some who publicly identify with you privately distance themselves or join in unfair criticism.

We live in a society where humility is mistaken for weakness, respect is seen as a lack of courage, and compassion is treated as foolishness—a system where treating people equally is questioned simply because you refuse to worship status, tribe, class, or power.

Personally, I have never looked down on anyone except to uplift them. I have never used privilege, position, or resources to oppress others, intimidate the weak, or make people feel small. To me, leadership has always been about service, sacrifice, and helping others rise.

Let me state clearly: my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them.

However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building.

Even within spaces where one labours sincerely, one is sometimes treated like an outsider in one’s own home. You and your team become easy targets for every failure, frustration, or misunderstanding, as though honest contribution has become a favour being tolerated rather than appreciated.

And when you choose to leave so that those you are leaving can have peace, and you step out into the cold, you are still maligned and your character is questioned. Despite all your efforts to continue working for a better Nigeria and engaging people with sincerity and goodwill, those who do not wish you well continue to attack your character and question your intentions.

There are moments I ask God in prayer: Why is doing the right thing often misconstrued as wrongdoing in our country? Why is integrity not valued? Why is the prudent management of resources, especially when invested in critical areas like education and healthcare, wrongly labelled as stinginess? Why are humility and obedience to the rule of law often taken to be weakness rather than discipline?

Let me assure all that I am not desperate to be President, Vice President, or Senate President. I am desperate to see a society that can console a mother whose child has been kidnapped or killed while going to school or work. I am desperate to see a Nigeria where people will not live in IDP camps but in their homes. I am desperate for a country where Nigerian citizens do not go to bed hungry, not knowing where their next meal will come from.

Yet, despite everything, I remain resolute. I firmly believe that Nigeria can still become a country with competent leadership based on justice, compassion, and equal opportunity for all.

A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Mololuwa | Cybersecurity - (The God Complex) @cyber_rekk]

FCMB: Sophisticated API exploitation resulted in the successful siphoning of ₦677 million from a ₦3.5 billion fraudulent attempt.

Sterling Bank: A critical middleware vulnerability enabled the exfiltration of sensitive PII for over 900,000 customers.

Remita: A massive cloud misconfiguration exposed 3TB of archival data, including transaction logs and infrastructure blueprints.

Here is a clean technical breakdown of these incidents:

1. FCMB: The ₦3.5 Billion Heist

This was a logic based exploitation of the bank's digital transaction pipeline

Attackers identified a flaw in the API reconciliation layer, specifically involving the Payattitude integration

By exploiting this vulnerability, hackers initiated transactions that the system validated as successful even though the source accounts were unfunded. This is known as a Zero Balance or Double Spend exploit.

While the system eventually flagged the anomaly at the ₦3.5 billion mark, the latency in the bank's real-time fraud monitoring allowed ₦677 million to be successfully routed to mule accounts and withdrawn before the kill switch was activated.

2. Sterling Bank: The 900k+ Record Exfiltration

This event was kinda like a Network Intrusion targeted at customer identity data, allegedly carried out by the threat actor ByteToBreach.

The breach targeted a critical vulnerability in the Oracle WebLogic Server. This middleware sits between the public facing applications and the bank’s private databases.

Attackers bypassed authentication to extract roughly 2.2 GB of data.

The data contained Personally Identifiable Information (PII) for over 900,000 customers, including names, contact details, and internal Customer Information File (CIF) numbers. This data is highly valuable for "Social Engineering 2.0, where scammers use real account details to trick victims into revealing OTPs or other lateral valuable infos

3. Remita: The 3TB S3 Infrastructure Exposure

This was a Critical Cloud Misconfiguration representing one of the largest infrastructure level exposures in the Nigerian fintech space

A massive Amazon S3 Bucket (Cloud Storage) was left in a Public Read state. This meant the data was accessible to anyone with the endpoint URL, requiring no hacking tools or passwords to download

The volume 3 Terabytes indicates an entire archival Data Lake was exposed. This typically includes millions of individual files and logs accumulated over years

800GB+ of KYC Documents, Massive troves of sensitive personal data, including Passports, Government IDs, Bank Statements, and Utility Bills

Core Databases: Full exports of MySQL and Postgres databases, including three primary databases and over 35,000+ password hashes

The Master Keys: Exposure of Government HSM (Hardware Security Module) keys, which are used to encrypt and authorize high-level financial transactions

Developer Blueprints: Source code, Docker registries, and GitKraken-to-S3 backups, providing a literal how-to guide for attackers to find further vulnerabilities in the system's logic

The exposure included transaction archives, RRR (Remita Retrieval Reference) metadata, and internal system logs. Most dangerously, logs of this size often leak secrets such as API keys and session tokens, which provide a roadmap for attackers to move laterally into other connected financial systems

what can we do

[gst @wearegst]

The newly passed Tax Administration Act contains several dangerous provisions that could easily be weaponized against Nigerians.

[Emmanuel Simeon @EmmaSimeon]

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[SK the Plug 🔌 🇬🇧🇬🇧 @DHKRULLAH]

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the death of Damilola Balogun on the 1st of January 2026 😢

Damilola was a loving wife, a devoted mother, and the main applicant for her family on skilled worker visa.

Just five months ago, she welcomed her beautiful baby into the world. What should have been a time of joy soon turned into a painful and tragic journey no family should endure.

It all started when Damilola began complaining of severe migraines. She visited Walsall Manor Hospital, where she was treated and discharged. Three days later, she returned with the same symptoms, but no cause was found and she was sent home again. Two weeks later, the headaches persisted, and this time she was admitted. Doctors administered antibiotics and carried out an MRI scan and a lumbar puncture.

The results revealed water on her brain, and Damilola was urgently referred to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, for surgery. The surgery was initially successful, and there was hope.

Tragically, three days later, Damilola went into a coma and was placed on life support. Despite all medical efforts and prayers, it was confirmed that she could not recover. On the morning of 1st January 2026, the life support machine was switched off.

While others were welcoming the first day of a new year in celebration, this family was plunged into unbearable grief.

Damilola leaves behind three children aged 11 years, 10 years, and a 5month old baby, her husband, her mother and grandmother.

Since this ordeal began, her husband has been unable to work, staying by her side throughout hospital admissions and recovery attempts. Their savings have been completely exhausted, and the family is now facing funeral costs and the immense responsibility of raising three children without their mother.

We are humbly asking for your support; no amount is too small. Your donation will help:
•Cover funeral and burial expenses
•Provide immediate support for her children
•Ease the financial burden on the grieving family

Please consider donating and sharing this page. Let us come together to show this family that they are not alone during their darkest moment.

Thank you for your kindness, prayers, and generosity. 🙏

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[Brad Traversy @traversymedia]

People promoting vibe coding with zero technical knowledge. You can't build anything substantial without fundamentals. Imagine building the next big platform with millions of users and you don't know how to add an environment variable. Not gatekeeping, just honesty.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

The U.S. is running a color revolution in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country.

This follows the country’s refusal to show sufficient hostility to China.

And the unrest, positioned as a Gen-Z protest, has spread to Nepal.

VIDEO:
0:00 Intro

0:41
Ten signs that show the civil unrest in Indonesia is a US color revolution:

Check out the colors: Orange in Ukraine, yellow and black in Hong Kong, and now pink and green in Indonesia.

Hong Kong protesters had their “five demands” and Indonesia has the same thing.

Then there is the spin that blames the police for everything, the standard image of the single individual confronting a wall of riot shields, the accompanying disinformation posts, the refusal of western media to look one millimeter below the surface, and so on.

2:48
A study of leaked documents from NED meetings in Indonesia show clearly, in writing, that the US Embassy and US political interference units work directly with chosen local political groups to organize and finance protests. These are smoking guns.

The scary bit: many countries still allow NED and its units access to innocent Asian communities.

[Emmanuel Simeon @EmmaSimeon]

Are we expecting the second ban on Twitter(X) in Nigeria?🤔

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

A comment about Nigeria from @AhmedKaballo that I can't get out of my head.

[Emmanuel Simeon @EmmaSimeon]

@_musaibrahim @mopilo Exactly, with the new US Visa Policy on Social Media, it's easy to spot who is applying.

[Emmanuel Simeon @EmmaSimeon]

😀😀😀

[Emmanuel Simeon @EmmaSimeon]

How you should tweet when you have a US Visa interview coming up 😀

[Al Amin Idris @elmo_idris]

I love traveling because it allows me to experience new cultures and see the world from different perspectives. The United States is one of the best places for that. I just want to explore, learn, and bring the knowledge back home to my beloved Nigeria.

[Emmanuel Simeon @EmmaSimeon]

@santos__vito @_dan_Musa_ Time abeg???

[Emmanuel Simeon @EmmaSimeon]

@TosinOlugbenga https://t.co/Rmb7PeaNdx

[Emmanuel Simeon @EmmaSimeon]

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[Tosin Olugbenga @TosinOlugbenga]

I think we should simply have a tax calculator set up online by FIRS

SO people can easily enter their income information and see how much tax they would be paying.

In the UK, it’s automated because everyone has a tax code.

No argument when I pay 40% of my yearly income(e dey pain me o, but I got no option)

It’s the law..

[Emmanuel Simeon @EmmaSimeon]

One of the lessons from an observer view on Twitter(X) is that everybody has an agenda to what they post or how they interpret situations.
While there are few exceptions of stack ignorance, the majority twist event to favor an outcome.

[David Diga Hernandez @DigaHernandez]

You’re not just tired.
You’re under attack.
And the enemy is trying to bring confusion.
He’s trying to disrupt your prayer life.
You’ve been praying… but nothing’s moving.
Not because God hasn’t answered.
But because something is blocking the delivery.
👇

[Emmanuel Simeon @EmmaSimeon]

@nimc_ng Your self service portal isn't working yet

[Emmanuel Simeon @EmmaSimeon]

@dangbanamanager Key to a new Nigeria, probably YES!

While still in the Labour Party, never going to work