{"id":206609,"date":"2020-04-02T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206609"},"modified":"2020-04-03T05:47:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T04:47:43","slug":"covid-19-ncc-warns-nigerians-about-fake-website-offering-free-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206609","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: NCC warns Nigerians about fake website offering free internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has alerted Nigerians of messages being spread by a fraudulent website<\/p>\n<p>The fake website (https:\/\/covid-19-fg-grant.blogspot.com\/?=1) is asking Nigerian citizens to apply for a free internet bundle and claiming partnership with the NCC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerian government, in collaboration with NCC, is offering all Nigerian citizens up to 20GB of data to stay at home and get up-to-date information in a bid to counter the spread of COVID-19. All Nigeria citizens are entitled to free Internet connection to stay at home safely and enjoy the Internet in a bid to control the spread of COVID-19. The free Internet package is available to everyone starting from Friday, 27th March, 2020,\u201d the website claimed.<\/p>\n<p>NCC said the website asks Nigerians to apply for the free Internet by clicking a web link, which automatically takes them to a webpage with a dialogue box to fill in their bio data.<\/p>\n<p>The agency stated that neither the Nigerian government nor the commission authorised the dubious message.<\/p>\n<p>NCC advised operators and citizens discountenance the falsehood which is circulating.<\/p>\n<p>The commission reiterated its commitment towards deepening access to telecoms services and its dedication safeguarding the rights of over 128 million internet users across mobile networks in Nigeria.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has alerted Nigerians of messages being spread by a fraudulent website The fake website (https:\/\/covid-19-fg-grant.blogspot.com\/?=1) is asking Nigerian citizens to apply for a free internet bundle and claiming partnership with the NCC. \u201cNigerian government, in collaboration with NCC, is offering all Nigerian citizens up to 20GB of data to stay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,14575,1162],"class_list":["post-206609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-covid-19","tag-ncc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}