FG monitors Nigerians’ Facebook, Twitter accounts

The Federal Government has been monitoring the social media account of Nigerians for a while now, using some sophisticated technology which costs millions of dollars.

It says,the aim of doing this is to monitor individuals who are affiliated to terrorist groups.

A source in the office of National Security Adviser told PUNCH;
"The surveillance system is not being used to target everyone, as people may want to believe. It is only deployed to get intelligence on specific targets because it would be hard and difficult to use such system to spy on all Nigerians; the amount of data would be too huge and staggering for the assessors to sort and manage.
Basically, the system is used to hack into emails and phones of targets, and the targets are those who are suspected of having ties with terrorists, whether Boko Haram, ISIS or any other criminal element.”