The airwaves crackled with a chilling nonchalance on Friday, February 13, 2026, as former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, admitted on Arise News to a high-level breach of privacy that strikes at the heart of the Nigerian state.
At ITREALMS, we view this not as mere political theater, but as a grave national security crisis. Under Section 6 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Amendment Act 2024, unauthorized access to a network or the interception of classified data vital to national security is a felony that can attract up to seven years in prison.
Yet, beyond the legality lies a terrifying reality: if the digital line of the man guarding Nigeria’s secrets is not sacred, then no citizen is safe. This admission suggests that surveillance has become a privatized currency; a tool weaponized in the shadows by those who boast they "also have our ways."
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The news has sent shockwaves through the industry. Truly, those who heard it ran without waiting to confirm the number of their legs to check their phones or approach the nearest phone technician for safeguards. It is a moment of collective realization that our privacy currently stands on a foundation of sand.
We must move beyond the personalities of the actors and address the terminal illness in our telecom infrastructure; specifically the Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) vulnerabilities and the proliferation of "shadow" interception tools, that allows such overreach to exist.
We must move beyond the personalities of the actors and address the terminal illness in our telecom infrastructure; specifically the Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) vulnerabilities and the proliferation of "shadow" interception tools, that allows such overreach to exist.
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