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Cyberattack Disrupts Nigeria Customs Service Cargo Clearance Operations

August 14, 2025

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) suffered a cyberattack on its ICT platform, known locally as the “B’Odogwu” system. This platform is used to process cargo clearance and trade facilitation across Nigeria’s ports. The attack disrupted cargo clearance operations nationwide, effectively paralyzing the export/import workflow at major ports. It disabled the IT system that links customs data, port terminals, and clearance certifications.

The outage forced licensed customs agents, importers and freight forwarders to incur significant costs in the form of demurrage (storage) fees on containers that were delayed because they could not be cleared on time.

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Data Breach at Nigerian Oil and Gas Sector

January 2, 2023

An unknown threat actor has targeted the Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry Content Joint Qualification System (NOGIC JQS) and posted its data on the hacker forum with sample images revealing lists of files, including backups and MySQL data. The NOGIC JQS website offers services such as registration of contractors in the Nigerian oil and gas industry, marine vessel registration, verification, databases for national skill development, categorization of marine support vendors, expatriate quota application management, tenders management, etc. This points towards the severity of the hacking and leaking of sensitive and critical data.

Currently, the Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry Content Joint Qualification System (NOGIC) JQS portal is inaccessible and “under maintenance”. The website (nogicjqs.gov.ng) states that the application is undergoing updates.

The Nigerian oil and gas industry has been in the news over the oil theft controversy, price increase, and discovery of oil slicks in the Escravos river. As per reports, Nigeria is Africa’s primary oil provider and adds 1.2 million barrels of oil daily.

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