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Publicly owned IT infrastructure shared-services company, Galaxy Backbone (GBB) Limited is seeking for greater collaboration with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the areas of training and cyber security.
Managing Director of GBB, Professor Muhammad Bello Abubakar, made the call this week in Abuja during a courtesy visit to the EFCC Chairman, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa.
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According to Abubakar, GBB which led in securing Nigeria’s recent national elections against hacking and other cyber breaches, desires to explore collaboration with the EFCC in the areas of information security, storage of data and personnel training.
“We give training, particularly Information Communication Technology, ICT, training, which I believe organisations like the EFCC would want to explore to train their personnel to keep them abreast of the current cyber security challenges”, said the GBB boss.
Adding: “I will start by congratulating the Chairman on the achievements and the successes he has recorded since his appointment as the Executive Chairman of the Commission.“It was truly a very wise decision for the government to have a pioneer cadet of the Commission as the head of the EFCC”
Responding, Bawa said the EFCC could not have recorded the referenced successes without leveraging technology in its day to day activities, ranging from case file management system, human resources management to the creation of a corruption reporting application, Eagle Eye App, among others.
“There is no way we can do this kind of job here without leveraging ICT… One of the things that we have done is developing software that could in the long run make us paperless,” he said.
He called for what he described as the creation of an e-governance structure that would ensure that most ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of government are integrated electronically.
