TD ABUJA, FCT — Fresh concerns have been raised over the cybersecurity and access controls of Nigeria’s electoral management body after dozens of casino and gambling articles were discovered published directly on the official website of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The alarm was raised by a social-media user, Mundus (@mundus01), who said he identified approximately 28 casino and gambling pages hosted on the official INEC domain, inecnigeria.org.
The discovery is significant because the pages were not merely links directing visitors to gambling websites.
According to the whistleblower, they were actual articles published under INEC’s domain.
One example cited was a page titled “Discover the Excitement of Instant Casino France.”
A search of INEC’s website currently also reveals pages carrying gambling-related material under the WordPress author name “Ajuma Achor.”
One INEC archive page, for example, displays multiple posts by that author dated February 2025/2026, including gambling-related content.
Who is “Ajuma Achor”?
The discovery has raised additional questions because Interra Networks, an information-technology company, currently lists Ajuma Christine Achor among its senior personnel.
The company identified her as Head of Professional Services.
A LinkedIn directory search also lists an Ajuma Christine Achor associated with Interra Networks.
However, the available evidence does not establish that the person associated with Interra Networks is the same individual who created or published the gambling articles on INEC’s website.
Furthermore, it does not establish that she personally authorised the publications.
Mundus himself presented the connection as a question rather than a conclusion.
He suggested that the appearance of the same name could point either to an old publishing account, compromised credentials or misuse of administrative access.
INEC Website Security Under Scrutiny
The more serious issue raised by the discovery concerns who has publishing access to INEC’s website and how the gambling material was allowed to remain online.
The Commission is constitutionally responsible for organising and supervising Nigeria’s elections, including presidential, governorship and legislative elections.
INEC’s website is also an important public-information channel.
The Commission says its Citizens Contact Centre provides the public with information and receives incident reports and complaints through its website and other platforms.
With Nigeria heading toward the 2027 general elections, questions over the integrity of the Commission’s digital infrastructure therefore carry particular significance.
Mundus wondered how unauthorised individuals were able to publish dozens of unrelated gambling articles on an official electoral website.
He warned that the issue should not be dismissed simply because the pages have subsequently been removed.
He asked INEC to establish:
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who had publishing privileges,
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how the pages were uploaded,
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when the activity began, and,
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whether any unauthorised access remains active.
Could Election Information Be Manipulated?
The discovery does not, by itself, prove that INEC’s website was hacked.
Also, there is currently no evidence presented that election results or official electoral information have been altered.
However, the incident raises a legitimate cybersecurity question: if an unauthorised party obtained publishing privileges, could the same access potentially be used to publish false electoral information during a sensitive period?
That is precisely why the whistleblower is calling for an independent technical audit rather than merely deleting the offending pages.
The gambling pages reportedly remain visible through archived versions of the website, providing evidence that the material had previously been publicly accessible.
INEC’s official website remains active and currently publishes election-related information, including the dates of upcoming 2026 bye-elections and the 2027 presidential and National Assembly elections.
Calls for Independent Audit on INEC Website
The controversy has triggered calls for INEC to conduct a forensic examination of its website and associated systems, including:
- All current and former administrator accounts;
- WordPress publishing privileges and credentials;
- Server and access logs;
- Third-party contractors and former vendors with administrative access;
- The origin and publication dates of the gambling pages;
- Whether other unauthorised material was published; and
- Whether any unauthorised accounts or credentials remain active.
The discovery comes at a particularly sensitive time for Nigeria’s electoral system, with the 2027 presidential election scheduled for January 16, 2027, according to INEC’s current election calendar.
For now, the central question remains unanswered:
Were the casino pages the result of a long-standing website compromise, an improperly secured legacy account, deliberate misuse of legitimate publishing access, or something else entirely?
Only a proper forensic investigation by INEC and independent cybersecurity experts can establish what happened.
Even though these pages have now been deleted, they were already archived on the Wayback Machine.
See:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260815132241/inecnigeria.org/discover-the-excitement-of-instant-casino-france/
https://web.archive.org/web/20260308111001/https://inecnigeria.org/ceske-casino-online-vse-co-potrebujete-vedet/
https://web.archive.org/web/20260308110012/https://inecnigeria.org/casino-zdarma-bonus-bez-vkladu-vse-co-potrebujete-vedet/
https://web.archive.org/web/20260308102431/https://inecnigeria.org/exploring-the-allure-of-casino-games-what-keeps-players-coming-back/
This Dawn News will continue to monitor the controversy and any response from INEC.
