The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has announced that its official website has been compromised by unidentified hackers.
This development was disclosed in a statement posted on the bureau’s official X account on Wednesday.
The NBS urged the public to disregard any information or reports shared on its behalf from unofficial sources until the website is fully restored.
The bureau assured the public that its technical team is actively working to resolve the issue.
The statement read: “This is to inform the public that the NBS website has been hacked and we are working to recover it.
*”Please disregard any message or report posted until the website is fully restored.”
A check on the website confirmed the breach, with the homepage displaying the message, “Page Hacked.”
Subsequent attempts to access the site resulted in an “Internal Server Error”.
The error notification instructed users to contact the server administrator at webmaster@nigerianstat.gov.ng and indicated that more details might be available in the server’s error log.
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The NBS is the principal agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of statistical data in Nigeria.
The statistics office has recently published several key reports such as the Nigerian Gross Domestic Product Report for Q3 2024, which provides an update on Nigeria’s economic growth and performance, the Nigeria Labour Force Survey report for Q2 2024, which offers insights into Nigeria’s labor market, including employment and unemployment rates.
It also offers the Consumer Price Index November 2024, which provides the latest information on Nigeria’s inflation rate, among others.
In November, the NBS said Nigeria’s GDP grew by 3.46 per cent year-on-year in real terms in the third quarter of 2024.
The NBS said this growth rate is higher than the 2.54 per cent recorded in the third quarter of 2023 and higher than the second quarter of 2024 growth of 3.19 per cent.
On Monday, the NBS said Nigeria’s annual inflation rate rose to 34.60 per cent in November from 33.88 per cent in October.
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