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    Home»News»Enforce your mandate and implement PKI programmes, Osinbajo tells NITDA
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    Enforce your mandate and implement PKI programmes, Osinbajo tells NITDA

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    Yemi Osinbajo, Isa Pantami, Nigeria, Infrastructure
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    Nigerian Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has asked the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) to as a matter of urgency begin to enforce its mandate of implementing the National Public Key Infrastructure Program for Nigeria.

    This becomes necessary to resolve the challenges of lack of control and central regulation of the PKI services currently delivered by government establishments mandated.

    The National Public Key Infrastructure Program mandates NITDA to harmonise all IT related projects in Nigeria, as it relates to Ministries, Departments, Agencies as well as the general public.

    According to a statement signed by Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, Director General of NITDA, the directive from the Acting President is one of the resolutions reached by a recent high level meeting held at the Office of the Acting President, which was chaired by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on ICT and attended by the Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service, the Director General, National Identity Management Commission and the Director General, NITDA.

    Other resolutions reached at the meeting include:

    1. PKI Administration: As part of the harmonisation process, NITDA will take ownership, administration and regulation of the National PKI, ensuring full use and benefits of the associated PKI-as-a-Service (PaaS), including the issuance of Document Signer Certificates, the management of the Public Key Directory (PKD) via the Nigerian Country Signing Certificate Authority (CSCA) Master-list.
    2. PKI Services: Inline with the Federal Government’s initiative on the Digital Economy, this will further enhance the use of digital certificates to authenticate documents e.g. Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) Certificates, Tax Clearance Certificates and other legal documents.
    3. IT Procurements: All MDAs as directed by FEC should endeavour to seek IT project approval from NITDA, in order to avoid past experiences of huge losses incurred through multiple or conflicting projects.
    4. Coordinating PKI Harmonisation Initiative: The Office of the Vice President is responsible for coordinating the harmonisation initiative, as part of its effort to move the nation on a path towards a Digital Economy.

    The harmonisation process would include NITDA’s inauguration of a National Stakeholders’ Harmonisation Committee, bringing together all stakeholders in the industry, to recommend the best model for PKI infrastructure in the country.

    To this end all sector based regulators would be contacted by the Agency, to provide information on current efforts related to PKI in their various sectors. This would include MDAs that require some form of PKI services to carry out their statutory functions in a digital environment.

    The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is an Agency under the Federal Ministry of Communications. The Agency was created in April 2001 to implement the Nigerian Information Technology Policy and co-ordinate general IT development and regulation in the country. Specifically, Section 6(a &c) of the Act mandates NITDA to create a framework for the planning, research, development, standardization, application, coordination, monitoring, evaluation and regulation of Information Technology practices, activities and systems in Nigeria; and render advisory services in all information technology matters to the public and private sectors.

    Infrastructure Isa Pantami Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo
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