August 31, 2026
The Nigerian Army has reported an attempted unauthorised access to its official X account, marking the second reported cyber breach involving a Nigerian military social media account in about two weeks.
The Army’s account began publishing memecoin-related updates at about 3:50 p.m. on Saturday, before the development was flagged as a cybersecurity incident.
The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Appolonia Anele, confirmed the incident in a statement posted on the Army’s official Facebook page.
“The Nigerian Army has detected and is actively responding to an attempted unauthorised access to its official X (formerly Twitter) account,” she said.
