The Federal Government has finally signed the ‘Designation and Protection of Critical National Information Infrastructure Order, 2024,’ 23 years after the country’s telecommunication revolution began.
Bosun Tijani, minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, disclosed this on Wednesday. He said, “I would like to appreciate President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the release of the official gazette, ‘Designation and Protection of Critical National Information Infrastructure Order, 2024.’”
This gazette now makes it an offence to purposefully damage assets such as telco towers/sites, switch stations, data centres, satellite infrastructure, submarine and fibre optic cables, transmission equipment, e-government platforms, and databases, among many others.
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