Debunking the Phantom Debts and Ecological Loan Fallacy
My attention has been drawn to trending claims by the Anambra State Government that my administration left behind inherited debts, including a ₦2 billion ecological loan, contractor liabilities, and unpaid salaries, gratuities, and pensions. This is completely false.
We systematically liquidated historical gratuities and arrears dating back several years, amounting to over ₦35 billion. At the point of handover, the state owed nothing in salaries, gratuities, or pensions, nor did we owe anything to any contractor for projects duly executed and certified.
The ₦2 billion ecological fund in question was released barely three months before the end of my tenure for the Oko/Umuchiana erosion crisis. Despite pressure to spend the money, I refused, insisting that it should be left for my successor because government is a continuum and the funds were tied to a specific project.
The money was therefore left 100 per cent intact in First Bank, in Account No. 2018779464, with a balance of over ₦2.13 billion.
It is important to stress that funds tied to specific projects or set aside for particular purposes were not even included in the over ₦75 billion in savings we left behind.
If anybody can establish anything to the contrary, I will stop campaigning. -PO
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Cybersecurity News 2025 Year in Review
January
• TikTok gets banned in the US
• CIA analyst Asif Rahman pleads guilty for sharing top secret information on Telegram
• Ross Ulbricht, creator of the Silk Road, gets pardoned by Trump
• Sellix, StarkRDP, Nulled, and Cracked seized by law enforcement
Febuary
• StarkRDP launches new site to evade takedown
• Threat actor “NatoHub” arrested in Spain
• 4 suspects arrested across Europe tied to Phobos and 8Base ransomware
• Crypto exchange ByBit hacked by North Korea for $1.4B in ETH
• Skype shuts down
March
• DOJ unseals indictments against i-Soon employees
• Garantex Russian crypto exchange seized by US Secret Service
• LockBit developer Rostislav Panev extradited to the US
• Veer Chetal a/k/a “Wiz” arrested for role in Malone Lam case
April
• Dark web CSAM site Kidflix shut down by Europol
• Noah Michael Urban a/k/a “KingBob” pleads guilty to SIM swapping charges
• Cracked forum launches new domain after prior seizure
• 4chan hacked
• eXch shuts down after laundering DPRK funds
• JokerOTP creators arrested
May
• Ryan Mitchell Kramer a/k/a “NullBulge” pleads guilty to hacking Disney
• Kya Christian Nelson a/k/a “Chumlul” sentenced to 44 months for swatting
• Signal / TeleMessage scandal
• Poland shuts down DDoS-for-hire sites under Operation PowerOFF
• LockBit hacked; wallets, keys, and chats leaked
• Sellix founder rebrands to Paylix
• 12 more charged in Malone Lam case (RICO)
• LummaStealer infrastructure disrupted
• AvCheck seized
June
• Coinbase breached via outsourced support provider TaskUs
• BidenCash seized
• Archetyp darknet market seized and admin arrested
• Ryuk ransomware affiliate arrested in Ukraine, extradited to US
• Kai West a/k/a “IntelBroker” arrested
July
• Connor Moucka a/k/a “Waifu” extradited to the US
• Hunters International ransomware group shuts down
• 7 major ROM sites seized by FBI
• Multiple Scattered Spider members arrested in the UK
• Cameron Wagenius a/k/a “Kiberphant0m” pleads guilty
• XSS forum seized and admin arrested in France
• BlackSuit ransomware site seized by Homeland Security
August
• DOJ seizes $2.8M in crypto tied to Zeplin ransomware
• Noah Michael Urban a/k/a “KingBob” sentenced to 10 years
September
• Zscaler breached
• StreamEast shut down
• Salesforce / Salesloft breach
• Malicious NPM packages used to drain crypto
• Connor Fitzpatrick a/k/a “Pompompurin” resentenced to 3 years
• Scattered Spider member arrested in Las Vegas
• US Secret Service finds SIM farm in NYC
October
• Scattered Lapsus Hunters leak partial Salesforce data
• Discord announces breach
• Aisuru botnet launches 29.69 Tbps DDoS attack
• BreachForums seized for the 8th time
• Roobet & Shuffle crypto casinos breached via FastTrack
• Windows 10 reaches end of life
• GoGetSMS seized; offices raided
• AWS us-east-1 outage
• Microsoft Azure prolonged downtime
November
• Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez sentenced to 5 years
• Aleksei Volkov pleads guilty in Yanluowang ransomware case
• Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, and Elysium disrupted globally
• Dutch police shut down CrazyRDP
• MediaLand sanctioned by US for ransomware hosting
• Scattered Spider members plead not guilty in TfL breach
December
• Danny a/k/a “Meech” arrested in Dubai (Malone Lam case)
Rainbow Six Siege gets breached and all users get millions in free coins and cosmetics
Thank you for reading, Happy New Year!
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