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The Director General National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kachifu Abdulahi has said that as Nigeria is constructing digital infrastructure together with digital safety.
He said this on Wednesday in Abuja at a press convention on the forth coming International Cyber Security Conference happening in Abuja from 27-28 October 2026. With the theme. “Cyber Resilience in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Defending minds, networks, and nations”
“We wish to improve our dedication in integrating cyber safety into Nigeria’s digital transformation agenda. We need everybody to be designing with cyber safety in thoughts, as a result of more often than not we spend lots constructing our digital infrastructure, however we don’t defending their organisation’s digital infrastructure or nationwide infrastructure.
“So we want to encourage them when they come to this conference to be open, to engage with international participants, as well as people from other industries, so that we can share experience across the board.”
According to him, “More than 95% of all cyber breaches are a result of human error. So that means we need to let our people know. It’s not everything you see online you trust.”
Abdulahi additionally said that Nigeria has put in place legal guidelines and insurance policies to information people, private and non-private establishments on the necessity to construct digital safety alongside digital infrastructure.
“We have the Cyber Security and Crime Act, which is a legislation that empower the workplace of the National Security Advisor to ascertain M3C, which is the National Security Council. Cyber Security Coordination Center, which coordinate the nationwide cyber safety points. So we’ve sectoral aspect underneath that.
“We NITDA is taking care of MDAs and private citizens. Why the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), is coordinating telecommunications, and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is coordinating the banks.”
He famous that there’s is synergy between these three authorities businesses on digital safety. “We all work together in terms of seeing how we collaborate, share intelligence on what is happening.”
In addition he stated, “Beyond that, we stated, we have to have nationwide cyber safety structure. The structure will set commonplace for everybody constructing know-how.
“You need to have a minimum cyber security standard to protect yourself. And also, the architecture will recommend minimum investment that anybody should have in your agency.”
“We don’t want to have any weak link in that network. That’s why the architecture will recommend what minimum standard every organisation should have.”
Speaking earlier he stated, “We wish to improve our dedication in integrating cyber safety into Nigeria’s digital transformation agenda. We need everybody to be designing with cyber safety in thoughts, as a result of more often than not we spend lots constructing our digital infrastructure, however we don’t defending their organisation’s digital infrastructure or nationwide infrastructure. So we wish to encourage them once they come to this convention to be open, to interact with worldwide
The Director National Digital Forensic Lab, Office o the National Security Adviser (ONSA), Mohammed Adumu, stated, “The Office of National Security Advisor to establish the National Engineering and Computer Analysis Response Team to establish the National Digital Pharmaceutical Laboratory to formulate cyber security policy strategy and to designate, to advise, designate critical national information infrastructure.”
The Managing Director of QNA MARCOM, Ankit Shukla, stated, “After we organized the first cyber security conference many people and countries are interested in what Nigeria is doing an they want to be part of this conference. They’re coming from all over Africa and the world.”
