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Economic Confidential,
April 10,
2008
BUSINESS
Cyber Solution: NASS Urged to Pass Anti-Cyber Crime Bill
The National Assembly has been reminded to expedite action on anti
Cyber Crime bill currently with them.
Former Attorney General of the federation and Minister of Justice,
Mr Akin Olujinmi made the spirited call to the National Assembly on
the anti cyber crime bill in Abuja at the inauguration of the Global
Network for Cyber solution Limited-an anti cyber crime and Security
solution organization.
Mr Olujinmi lamented that the country is yet to have a legal frame
work to combat cyber crime despite the fact that the bill was
submitted at the NASS before he left office
The former minister, who was worried about the increasing level of
cyber crimes in the country stated that the bill if passed would
have nipped the crime in the bud
Disclosing that it is difficult to prove cyber crime in courts now
because there was no Information Technology in place then , the
former Attorney General said the bill currently with the national
Assembly had been designed to take care of this loophole
Even with the passage of the bill, Mr. Olujinmi disclosed that the
federal government would still have to train some people in
technicalities of cyber crime as he proposed then for the problem to
be solved
In a presentation on cyber crime and cyber security as it affect
national economic growth, Dr Chris Uwaje, a former Principal
Consultant to Government of the federation of Nigeria and principal
contributor to national IT Policy disclosed a shocking news that the
data bank of one of the 24 banks in the country is missing
Disclosing that data bank of any organization is the life wire of
such organization as it contained a whole lot of information, Dr
Uwaje said the bank, which name he would not want to disclose had
already contacted them with a view to seen how the lost data bank
could be found
In his remarks, the Vice President/ Chief Executive Officer of the
organization, Mr. Segun Olugbile disclosed that the Global Network
for Cyber Solution Limited will assist banks and companies in the
oil and gas sector of the economy in checking crimes relating to the
internet
According to him, the Global Network for Cyber solution is an anti
cyber crime campaign and cyber security solution organization
dedicated to promoting a safe and secure African IT Cyberspace
He said the organization would create African wide anti cyber crime
campaign and cyber security solution empowerment events that would
help African nations to secure their IT systems and infrastructures
connectivity with the global information System Infrastructures
Disclosing that the organization would assist banks and companies in
the oil and gas sector to start with. The Cyber solution Chief
Executive said this would be strongly achieved through their Cyber
security Analysis based research and Development, Africa Cyber
security globally certified solutions
Other events to be packaged include Cyber security
international/organizational empowerment training, annual African
international conference on Global Cyber security development,
solutions and issues, cyber security summits, sectoral based cyber
security workshops and interactive seminars all over Africa
Through the activities of cyber solution research, cyber solution
consulting and cyber solution events, Mr.Olugbile said the
organization would work with all IT practitioners and users to
research analyze and interpret the cyber security solution of IT
infrastructure within the context of their individual needs
Earlier, the chairman of the organization board of directors,
Apostle Alfred TB William disclosed that internet in Africa is
growing swiftly, giving rise to new opportunities in every field one
can think of
However, he noted that despite this advantage, the internet has a
dis advantage of cyber criminality such as Advanced Fee Fraud [419],
child pornography, e-mail espionage, credit card fraud, spasm,
software piracy etc
In Africa , he said internet had exposed us to security risks of
information, our businesses, our nation’s critical information to a
large and infrastructure that come with connecting global network |
