Frightened concerning the steady misuse of non-public information of telecoms customers, which has uncovered them to elevated threat of identification theft, coupled with the frequent hacking of shoppers’ on-line banking app, resulting in lack of large sums of cash, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) who doubles as Chairman, Board of Governors, Nationwide Judicial Institute, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has careworn the necessity for improved methods and innovation that may defend customers’ information, in addition to on-line transactions.
Kekere-Ekun made the decision, in the course of the opening ceremony of a three-day nationwide workshop for justices and judges on authorized points in telecommunications, organised by the Nigerian Communications Fee (NCC) in collaboration with the Nationwide Judicial Institute (NJI) in Lagos.
In her keynote deal with, Kekere-Ekun, who was represented by a Justice on the Supreme Court docket, Justice Jummai Hannatu Sankey, stated: “There was elevated threat of the non-public information of customers being misused or compromised by unscrupulous individuals, thus necessitating the necessity for improved methods and innovation for client safety within the telecommunications sector.
“Additionally, price noting are deficiencies within the banking sector and that are attributable to reliance on digital companies offered by the telecommunications sector. There may be as an illustration the foremost problem posed by electronically backed transactions which is frequent place within the banking sector. Considerations on this regard embody the spate of shoppers whose on-line banking platforms have been hacked, in addition to banks being compromised because of technological glitches not factored into their each day operations. Consequently, these and a number of other different challenges have resulted in quite a lot of disputes which continuously require adjudication.”
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The Administrator, Nationwide Judicial Institute, Justice Salisu Garba Abdullahi, whereas talking on the theme of the workshop: ‘The Position of the Judiciary in Accelerating Digital Transformation in Nigeria’, stated the theme was chosen to advance discussions on the overt impression of expertise on the telecommunications sector; to collectively discover methods and devise methods that may improve the performance of the sector, notably with respect to its authorized regime; and to restate the pivotal function performed by the Judiciary in bolstering belief and confidence within the sector.
“It’s anticipated that the interventions from the discussions would offer a pathway for an enchancment within the dispensation of justice for litigants and events to disputes arising from this specialised space of the legislation,” Abdullahi stated.
In his welcome deal with, the Govt Vice Chairman of NCC, Dr. Aminu Maida, stated this 12 months’s theme was becoming, given the urgency of scaling up digital transformation throughout Nigeria, in addition to the significance positioned by the federal government on bettering coordination and synergy amongst key stakeholders to attain extra useful outcomes on its insurance policies.
