Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has stated that Nigeria needs to employ digitalization of intelligence gathering and monitoring in other to beat the security challenges faced in the country. He said this at the IT audit presentation on the ministry of Interior and its agencies to the minister by Mr. Folusho Philips, Chairman of Philips consult. The minister pledged that he would ensure his ministry put the necessary efforts and tools that is needed to ensure maximum capacity building for digitalization in the ministry and agencies under his watch. He noted that Nigeria leaders should put in all their best to overcome the security challenges facing the country to distinguish the country to meet world digital standard. The permanent secretary said that significant efforts have already commenced to fully digitalize operations in the ministry, stating that the Electronic Data Management System which would ensure digitalization of file records and implementation of the Human Resource Module of the IPPIS are set to take off in the ministry. However, he stressed that there is need for more funding to be appropriated so as to further strengthen the ministry's information technology backbone.
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