Nigeria faces 90.6% cybersecurity workforce gap, says NITDA

From Adanna Nnamani, Abuja

The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Abdullahi, has disclosed that the country currently faces a staggering 90.6 per cent cybersecurity workforce gap, with only 25,760 professionals available to protect a population of over 220 million.

Abdullahi said the country needs at least 275,000 cybersecurity…