Too Many Pieces of the Same Puzzle: The Need for a Streamlined and Central Agency for Cybersecurity in Nigeria

Nigeria’s cybersecurity landscape is fragmented, with multiple agencies handling different aspects of cyber threats, governance, and digital security. This fragmented approach has led to inefficiencies, overlapping responsibilities, slow incident response, and poor enforcement of cybersecurity policies.

This discussion aims examine the current state of Nigeria’s cybersecurity governance, identify gaps in coordination, and either support/decline the motion to propose the establishment of a single, centralized cybersecurity agency modeled after international best practices such as France’s ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information) and the United States’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).