{"id":67044,"date":"2025-06-01T16:57:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67044"},"modified":"2025-06-01T16:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:57:54","slug":"neco-alerts-public-to-fake-facebook-account-impersonating-registrar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/01\/neco-alerts-public-to-fake-facebook-account-impersonating-registrar\/","title":{"rendered":"NECO Alerts Public to Fake Facebook Account Impersonating Registrar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The National Examinations Council (NECO), has issued a public warning over a fake Facebook account fraudulently created in the name of its Registrar and Chief Executive, Prof. Dantani Wushishi.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Sunday in Abuja, the Council&#8217;s Acting Director of Information and Public Relations, Mr. Azeez Sani, described the account as a scam tool aimed at deceiving and defrauding unsuspecting members of the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Council wishes to draw the attention of the public to the existence of this fake Facebook account in order to avoid being swindled by the fraudsters,\u201d Sani said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the incident has been reported to relevant security agencies, who have launched investigations to track and prosecute the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>NECO urged the public to remain vigilant and verify any online communication claiming to be from the Registrar or the Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal &nbsp; The National Examinations Council (NECO), has issued a public warning over a fake Facebook account fraudulently created in the name of its Registrar and Chief Executive, Prof. Dantani Wushishi. In a statement released Sunday in Abuja, the Council&#8217;s Acting Director of Information and Public Relations, Mr. Azeez Sani, described the account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67046,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67044\/revisions\/67046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}