Anti-graft Agency, Nigerian Defence Academy To Collaborate On Cybersecurity

Nigeria’s Anti-graft Agency the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has restated the desire to intensify its training collaboration with the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA especially in the area of cybersecurity to tackle emerging threats.

The Executive Chairman of the commission Abdulrasheed Bawa stated this when he received the Commandant NDA Major Gen. I.M Yusuf, at the Commission’s headquarters, Abuja, the nation’s capital.

While expressing gratitude to the NDA for coming to the aid of the Commission in 2016 and 2017 in training the highest number of cadets ever assembled for a course in the EFCC, Bawa commended NDA’s interest in Cybersecurity.

“It delights me to know that you have interest in cybersecurity, intelligence and security studies and for you to come up with a full-fledged department in that regard, it should be encouraged and acknowledged.” Bawa said.

The EFCC boss told his visitors that he had accepted their request for training collaboration, assuring that the modalities for the cooperation would be worked out.

Also Speaking, Gen. Yusuf thanked Bawa for the warm reception, expressing hope that the meeting will be the beginning of bigger collaboration between the NDA and the EFCC.

He expressed the desire for will EFCC to be part of NDA’s programmes.

General Yusuf said, there are courses NDA wants the EFCC to deliver on and “others we want you to send officers to us for training; all we need is to come up with a program that will be beneficial to all of us”.