Kashifu Inuwa, director-general of NITDA, said the initiative was designed to address structural regulatory bottlenecks slowing innovation in Nigeria’s digital economy.
NITDA stated that the malware also steals saved passwords, personal information, and documents.
It said the partnership would provide entrepreneurs with digital skills, tools, and resources.
Mr Tijani said the country was facing about 4200 cyber attacks every week targeted at government organisations and other institutions across sectors.
Citing data from NITDA, Mr Omotoso said Nigeria lost over 500 million dollars annually to cybercrime.
Mr Umar noted that MDAs had been directed to immediately review and strengthen their cybersecurity architecture.
The collaboration is being championed through the research, technology and innovation unit of the NNPC.
Mr Tambour explained that the training focus areas were selected to support the FCC’s statutory mandate.
The FCC chair reaffirmed the commission’s constitutional mandate to promote equity and balanced representation in the public sector.
NITDA warned Nigerians about the existence of new vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s GPT-4.0 and GPT-5 series which could expose users to data leakage.
