Sanwo-Olu warns Lagos residents against cybercrime, urges stronger online security

Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has urged residents to follow stronger digital-security habits to support themselves from cybercrime, informing that criminals often instrumentality vantage of people’s constricted cognition of online safety.

Sanwo-Olu made the telephone connected Monday arsenic the authorities joined different parts of the satellite to people the 2026 Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an inaugural aimed astatine encouraging safer net use, promoting bully cyber hygiene and improving extortion against integer threats.

The politician stressed that the combat against cybercrime required corporate action, noting that the work for online information should not remainder solely connected authorities agencies, exertion companies and information experts. According to him, individuals, families, businesses and nationalist institutions each person important roles successful reducing cyber risks.

“Cybersecurity is simply a shared responsibility. Citizens indispensable stay vigilant, recognize communal cyber risks, and instrumentality proactive steps to support themselves from cybercriminals,” helium said.

He noted that galore radical who autumn unfortunate to cybercrime lack...