Nigerian Army raises alarm over attempted breach of X account

The Nigerian Army has raised the alarm implicit an attempted compromise of its authoritative X account.

The Army disclosed this successful a connection issued on Saturday by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Appolonia Anele.

According to the statement, the incidental occurred astatine astir 5 p.m. on August 29, 2026, and is being treated arsenic a cybersecurity breach.

Anele said the Army had activated contiguous method and protective measures to unafraid the account, forestall further unauthorised entree and support the integrity of accusation disseminated done the platform.

She said efforts were underway to afloat unafraid the affected relationship and reconstruct exclusive administrative control.

The Army advised the public, media organisations and different stakeholders to disregard immoderate suspicious, unauthorised, misleading oregon unverified contented published done the affected relationship pending the solution of the incident.

It said specified contented should not beryllium regarded arsenic representing the authoritative presumption of the Nigerian Army.