Assange ‘is no hero’ —British foreign minister | Nairalaw

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “is no hero”, British Foreign
Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday following his arrest at the
Ecuadorian embassy in London.

“What is not acceptable is for someone to escape facing justice
and he had tried to do that for a very long time and that is why he
is no hero,” Hunt said in a statement.

(AFP)

Osinbajo Tasks Cyber Experts to curtail
Cybercrime

Vice president, Federal republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi
Osinbajo has charged all stakeholders in the nation’s cyber space,
including National Assembly, cyber security experts, security and
other related Agencies, as well as private sector to collectively
share cyber security best practices and ensure speedy
implementation of requisite policies, to curtail cybercrime in the
country.

Osinbajo who was represented by the Minister of Communications,
Dr. Adebayo Shittu gave the charge today in Abuja while declaring
open Cyber Secure Nigeria 2019 conference with the theme
“Implementing Cyber Security and Data privacy practices in
Nigeria.”

According to him, no body, organization or entity is immune to
cyber-crime victimization as a result of sophistication and
severity of cybercrime particularly in 2018, hence the need for all
to jointly end the menace to ensure a secure Nigeria, otherwise
every internet user would be a victim.

He posited that cyber security has become so essential, as
individual and national development increasingly rely on
Information Communication Technology (ICT) which calls for
stringent regulations to be enacted and implemented to ensure
criminal elements don’t succeed in taking advantage on hapless
internet users.

In his words, “The collection and processing of personal data
raises significant privacy and data protection concerns for every
citizen; the legal remedy to this problem is data protection to
ensure privacy.”

The Vice President pointed out that the conference was apt and a
welcomed development in line with the key policy thrust of the
federal government through the Ministry of Communications in view
of the rampant activities of the cyber criminals and internet
scammers popularly known as “yahoo yahoo”.

Professor Yemi Osinbajo urged the participants to galvanized
ideas in combating cyber threat curtail cyber-crime and ensure data
privacy practices in Nigeria, as well as to produce useful outcome
for submission to the Federal government.

He promised that the Federal government shall surely articulate
various submissions emanating from the conference and put them to
use..

Earlier in his address, the President, cyber security experts
association of Nigeria, Remi Afon called on the Federal Government
to establish a national cyber security center that will be saddled
with the responsibility of coordinating and implementing cyber
regulations.

He expressed worry that cyber security threats landscape has
evolved rapidly and have increased in number and sophistication
which need to be quickly checked to attain a regime of secured
cyber space in Nigeria through concerted efforts from all critical
stakeholders.

Daniel Enoch (IOII)

For: Deputy Director (Press)