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Cyber Security: Shittu wants Internet Stakeholders to Prepare Against Attacks

The Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu has called on internet stakeholders to put measures in place to tackle all forms of cyber attacks in the country. Shittu told newsmen in Abuja that everyone as well as organisations was vulnerable to cyber criminals. He stressed the...

Software Importation to Gulp $1b- NITDA

The Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has lamented the huge foreign exchange (forex) wasted yearly on the importation of information communication technology (ICT) goods and services. Pantami said a whopping $1 billion or four per cent of this...

N450 Unremitted Revenue N793 million More Recovered

As the Federal Government intensifies efforts to recover unremitted operating surpluses by Agencies and increase Independent Revenue, an additional sum of N793 million has been recovered from three Federal Government Agencies by the Recovery Committee set up two weeks ago by the Minister of...

Cybercrimes: FG Moves to Curb N78bn Annual Losses

Worried about the growing rate of cybercrimes in the country, which has resulted in about N78billion annual losses, the federal government has begun fresh moves that would help curb the menace of cyberspace activities that are beginning to unsettle banks, owing to the high...

NITDA Needs Knowledge, Creativity to Succeed – DG

The National Information Technology Development Agency requires a harmonious blend of knowledge and creativity to be able to achieve its mandate, the newly appointed Director-General of the agency, Dr. Isa Ibrahim, has said. Ibrahim said this while addressing workers of the agency in Abuja, adding...

Buhari Appoints 13 CEOs for Agencies

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved new Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) for 13 Federal Government agencies. In a statement by by the Director of Press in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Bolaji Adebiyi, those appointed include Mr. Joseph Ari as...