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Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has had its official website compromised to host promotional content for offshore online casinos, iGamingToday can reveal.
The breach saw pages on inecnigeria.org, the domain responsible for publishing election information, used to promote French‑language casino platforms and redirect visitors to unlicensed operators.
The compromised pages, which have since been taken down, were published under an account identified as “Ajuma Achor” and contained multiple articles written in French promoting instant‑play casino platforms.
Embedded links routed visitors to an aggregator listing offshore operators such as Super Kasino, Fortuna Online, and Casino XYZ. Separate pages in Czech, also under the same account, suggest the operation was targeting multiple European markets at the same time.
The incident follows a pattern known as SEO spam injection, where malicious actors embed gambling content inside trusted government domains to exploit their authority in search engine rankings. By doing so, traffic is channelled toward unlicensed operators without the host institution’s knowledge.
INEC has not yet responded to requests for comment on the breach.
A recurring pattern in the online gambling market
The breach of Nigeria’s electoral commission website fits into a wider trend that has been unfolding across Africa and beyond.
Techpoint Africa published findings from Zend Cybersecurity Threat Labs showing that three Nigerian federal sites, NILDS, NEMA, and NAERLS, had been compromised to serve Indonesian gambling content as far back as May 2026. One of those pages even carried a “SLOT88” copyright line.
The report also said Nigeria’s Federal High Court website had been compromised in November 2024, rerouting users who arrived via gambling-related search queries directly to illicit casino pages while appearing normal to everyday visitors.
In total, around 20 government websites across 16 African countries were found to have been hijacked.
The pattern is not limited to Africa. Earlier this week, iGamingToday reported a BBC investigation that uncovered 16 links on the Scottish Borders council directory, which should have directed users to local government contacts, were instead hijacked and channeled visitors to offshore gambling sites advertising “top noGamstop casinos.”
In June 2026, Old Catton Parish Council in Norfolk also discovered its own site had been compromised in the same way.
iGamingToday contacted INEC’s press office for comment. This story will be updated if a response is received.
