The International Telecommunications Union and the Nigerian Communications Commission plan to establish a regional cybersecurity centre in Africa to address the challenges of cybercrimes within the African region.
Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, disclosed this at the 2nd Edition of the Nigeria Security Exhibition and Conference in Abuja.
Danbatta also disclosed that the regulatory agency had initiated the process of building capacity in the telecommunications industry on how to tackle cybersecurity-related challenges.
He said, “In order to provide a focused and coordinated response to the challenges of cyberspace including cyber-terrorism, the NCC created the Department of New Media and Information Security.
“There is ongoing collaboration between ITU and NCC to establish African Regional Cybersecurity Centre in Nigeria to address the security challenges in the use of ICT in Africa; to provide services that would facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration on combating cyber threat at regional and national levels.
“There is also an ongoing collaboration with the office of the National Security Adviser, ICT regulatory agencies (within and outside Nigeria) and law enforcement agencies on initiatives aimed at confronting the menace of cyber terrorism.”
Meanwhile, Danbatta has pledged that the regulatory agency would review the prize money of its Tennis National Tournament upward to ensure that more teams are attracted from different parts of the country
A statement issued by the Director of Public Affairs, Mr. Tony Ojobo, in Abuja on Monday said Danbatta made the pledge at the National Stadium, Abuja, venue of the second semi-final of the tournament sponsored by NCC which ended in Abuja on Sunday.
The final winner of the tournament scheduled to hold in Lagos on December 4 and 5 will go home with N5m but the helmsman at NCC pledged not only to continue sponsoring the tournament but also to review the prize.
Danbatta remembered with nostalgia the escapades of Nigeria’s Nduka Odizor who reached the round of 16 in the Wimbledon of 1983.
To Danbatta, Odizor was easily one of the global tennis greats at the time but noted sadly that Nigerian players had not made the desired impact in global Tennis circuits since then.
The tournament was also witnessed by the President, Nigeria Tennis Federation, Mr. Sani Ndanusa, and President, International Tennis Academy, Mr. Godwin Kienka.
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