Nigeria, April 18 -- On 9 April, Nigeria made a confident pitch to the future. Standing before a global audience at GITEX Africa, the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa, outlined what he described as a strategic shift in the country's cybersecurity posture. It was no longer enough, he argued, to think in terms of firewalls and software patches.

Nigeria was embracing something broader, a concept he described as Total Resilience, one that integrates technology, people, and policy into a unified approach to digital security.

Six days later, on 15 April, reality intervened. The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), custodian of Nigeria's corporate registry and one of the country's...