WES 2025: EFCC vows heavy investment in digital forensics, capacity building to combat cybercrime - ITREALMS

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has announced a significant investment drive in digital forensics, capacity building, and public education as part of its strategy to aggressively tackle emerging financial crime challenges, including cybercrime, cryptocurrency fraud, and illicit trade financing, reports ITREALMS.

EFCC Executive Chairman, Mr. Olanipekun Olukoyede, confirmed the initiative while addressing the World Stage Economic Summit 2025 (WES 2025) in Lagos on Friday. The summit was themed 'Tackling The Issue of Low Productivity in Nigeria,' and Mr. Olukoyede's address focused on "Anti-Corruption Efforts of the EFCC to Boost the Ease of Doing Business in Nigeria."

NCC, LBS to overhaul courses, partner on capacity building - ITREALMS

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Lagos Business School of Pan-Atlantic University are considering forging a partnership that will result in developing customised capacity building interventions and overhauling of existing training courses offered by the LBS to address critical areas of needs of the Commission’s human capital development.

The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, emphasized the imperative of such collaboration during a visit of an LBS delegation led by the School’s Director, Executive Education, Victor Banji, to the Commission’s Head Office in Abuja recently.

NIRA Academy, AfriNIC sign MoU on IPv6 certification, capacity building

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The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) Academy and Mauritius-based African Network Information Center (AFRINIC) Ltd, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop and certify skills in Internet Number Resources Management and Internet Protocol version Six (IPv6) in Nigeria, reports ITRealms.

NIRA Academy, ITRealms gathered was established by NiRA, the managers of the country code Top Level Domain Name (.ng ccTLD) to breed Nigerians that will take full advantage of the jobs and business opportunities, wealth creation and financial rewards that the .ng domain name string has to offer, while AFRINIC is the Regional Registry for Internet Number Resources serving the African Internet Community. Thus among the world’s five Regional Internet Registries (RIR) that manage IP Addresses and Autonomous System numbers based on policies defined by the community.

Confirming this development to ITRealms in a press statement, the Dean of NIRA Academy, Mr. Sikiru A Shehu, said he signed on behalf of NiRA, whilst the chief executive officer (CEO), AFRINIC Limited, Mr. Alan P. Barrett, signed on behalf of AFRINIC.

According to Shehu, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was actually effective on Tuesday 24th January 2017, in Nairobi, Kenya, to develop and certify skills in Internet Number Resources Management and IPv6 in Nigeria.

Shehu also said that the Memorandum of Understanding creates an accessibility to International IPv6 certification for Nigerian System and Network Engineers, and provides the opportunity for Nigeria to increase the number of internationally recognised and skilled IPv6 engineers, following the pattern established by AFRINIC. The trainings would be conducted at the NiRA Academy, using AFRINIC course wares and certified trainers for the certification programmes.

Further, he said, the signing ceremony was witnessed by key players within the African and Global Internet Community, including the President/CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Mr. Goran Marby; Ghanaian Internet Pioneer, Prof. Nii Quaynor, representing the African Internet Community, NIRA President, Revd Sunday Folayan who is also the Chairman of the AFRINIC Board, Immediate Past President NIRA , Mrs. Mary Uduma, NIRA Board of Trustees member, Emmanuel Edet, NiRA's Chief Operating Officer, Mrs. Edith Udeagu and AFRINIC Board/ICANN ALAC member Seun Ojedeji.

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Lai Mohammed leads delegation to IPI congress, seeks collaboration with Al Jazeera

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed is leading a Nigerian delegation to the 2016 International Press Institute (IPI) annual congress in Qatar, the United Arab Emirate (UAE), just as he makes case for special collaboration with Al Jazeera on capacity building for journalists, reports ITRealms.

Speaking at Doha, Qatar, Mohammed sought collaboration between his ministry and the Doha-based international broadcaster, Al Jazeera, in the area of capacity building for journalists in the government-owned media organizations, especially the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).

This followed a request made by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to Al Jazeera to collaborate with the Ministry of Information and Culture in its efforts to restructure the NTA and other publicly-funded media establishments to enhance their performance.

He said the collaboration could be in the areas of capacity building as well as exchange of programmes and personnel.

''Our plan is to reposition the public media organizations to make them effective and competitive, irrespective of which government is in power,'' Alhaji Mohammed said during a meeting with the Acting Director General of Al Jazeera, Dr. Mostafa Souag, in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday.

''For a long time, government media organizations have lost their independence and credibility. I want to restore the glory and credibility of the publicly-owned media organizations,'' he said.

The Minister also called for a 'special relationship' between Al Jazeera and the Nigerian Government in the coverage of the key policy areas of this Administration - the fight against corruption and terrorism as well as the efforts to revamp the economy.

He assured Al Jazeera that the present Administration in Nigeria ''is an extremely open government'' and that the organization would not have any problem doing its work in the country.

Responding, the Acting Director General of Al Jazeera hailed Nigeria for providing a conducive environment for the media to carry out its duties.

''Despite a lot of conflict and tension, you have managed to create a conducive environment for the media. This is very important for us in the media and we hope to see more freedom and more protection for the media,'' he said.

Dr. Souag said Al Jazeera is willing to cooperate with the ministry in the area of training, asserting, ''Our training centre is one of the most professional in every aspect of the media, We are more than happy to work with you.''

 

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