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Securing Nigeria’s 2027 elections will require a convergence of phyical and cybersecurity defences capable of mitigating threat elements to the elections that span both physical and cyber domains. While physical security has traditionally been the focus of election planning, the digital domain is now equally critical, and the two must be integrated if Nigeria is to maintain a mature level of security preparedness for the elections. Current threat estimates show both physical and cyber threats to

The physcical security challenges are complex and multifacted and include terrorism and insurgency, banditry, gang violence and cultism, armed ethnic militia among others. According to data from Beacon Security and Innovations Limited, BSIL, a company I founded and run, and the international platform, Armed Conflict and Event Location Data, ACLED, from January – September, 2026 an average of 700 people are killed and another 500 abducted monthly across Nigeria, despite ongoing security forces op

Similarly, Nigeria’s cyberspace has a multitude of institutional and structural challenges that manifest in diverse threats as the country increasingly digitizes its election infrastructure for the scheduled January and February 2027 national elections.

Nigeria is currently facing an average of 4,906 cyberattacks per organisation every week, more than twice the global average of 2,422, and a 45 per cent year-on-year increase, according to Check Point Research’s August 2026 threat intelligence. That volume eased only slightly from 4,975 weekly attacks in July, and leaves Nigeria second only to Angola among the African markets tracked. Across the continent, INTERPOL’s 2026 African Cyberthreat Assessment estimates at least $5 billion in direct eco

The measurable losses are concentrated in payments: banks and customers lost ₦52.26 billion to fraud in 2024 and ₦25.85 billion in 2025, for a cumulative ₦134.48 billion between 2020 and 2025 (CBN/NIBSS). An earlier multi-sector estimate put losses at about ₦1.1 trillion between 2017 and 2023 across banking, telecommunications and government. Nigeria also recorded 5,822 ransomware detections in 2025, including an August 2025 attack on the Nigeria Customs Service that froze cargo clearance and ge

These statistics are a glaring warning about the fragility of Nigeria’s physical and digital borders. But as we look toward the 2027 General Elections, the stakes are existential to our democracy. A significant effort has already been accheived in physical election security risk management. INEC has internal capabilities for election risk management. It also has the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security, which comprises several security sector players and supports election sec

However, the cyber security function is not so mature compared to the physical security functions despite our democratic infrastructure now being almost entirely digitised. The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), the Result Viewing Portal (IReV), the National Register of Voters, and the vast digital communication networks used by political parties and the media are platforms that add additional exposure points and the new battlegrounds. We are no longer just looking at the risk of financi

We cannot secure what we do not comprehensively measure. It is time to institutionalise a unified National Cyber Threat Assessment (NCTA) and specifically tailor our national cyber capabilities to protect the 2027 elections. This requires the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy to take the lead in advance a unified capability effort. Ad-hoc task forces and

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