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Series of pornographic pictures, traced to the company’s Facebook platform displays offensively, which has attracted several questions and condemnation by viewers. See way to stay safe included.
Going by what showed in the last five hours on the Nigerian based newspaper company’s Facebook page, majority had resolved that the approved page, with blue badge indicator, has been taken over by a faceless individual.
No official statement has been issued by the company.
Series of pornographic pictures, traced to the company’s Facebook platform displays offensively, which has attracted several questions and condemnation by viewers.
Some of the readers bemoan what has suddenly appeared on such a know responsible company, threatened to unlike and unfollow the affected page.
Scannews 24 can authoritatively report that the page has been hacked regards to some changes which is not peculiar to company’s news platform in recent time.
The username of the page, as seen, has been changed to @nunumamabd while the page name remains ‘Nigeria Tribune’.
According to findings by our investigative personnel, members of the public are advised not to click on to watch nor download the advertised pornographic images as it pose to be trap to lure more pages or accounts into their custody.
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