{"id":72950,"date":"2025-08-12T16:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72950"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:09:30","slug":"icpc-ndpc-partner-to-safeguard-data-curb-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/12\/icpc-ndpc-partner-to-safeguard-data-curb-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"ICPC, NDPC Partner to Safeguard Data, Curb Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), and the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC), have formed a partnership to protect citizens\u2019 data and close loopholes exploited for fraud, identity theft, and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration, anchored on the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA), 2023, was announced on Monday in Abuja during a visit by NDPC officials to ICPC headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>ICPC Chairman, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, represented by the Commission\u2019s Secretary, Mr. Clifford Okwudiri Oparaodu, DSSRS, said stronger data protection would enhance the fight against corruption by improving efficiency, strengthening operations, and reducing opportunities for abuse.<\/p>\n<p>NDPC National Commissioner\/CEO, Dr. Vincent Olatunji, described the alliance as a major enforcement tool, noting that the NDPA 2023 mandates public institutions to secure citizens\u2019 data. Partnering with the ICPC, he said, would ensure swift action in cases where data breaches are linked to corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement will cover intelligence sharing, public sensitisation campaigns, and the development of standardised data protocols for Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), as well as the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>Olatunji also advocated for a unified national standard on lawful data use to curb misuse.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows ICPC\u2019s recent training of its Data Protection and Incident Response Team (DPIRT), to boost data security and breach response capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Both agencies plan to formalise the deal with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), and the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC), have formed a partnership to protect citizens\u2019 data and close loopholes exploited for fraud, identity theft, and corruption. The collaboration, anchored on the Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA), 2023, was announced on Monday in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72952,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72950\/revisions\/72952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}