Jane Egerton-Idehen

When your network drops, who has to act, and do they know it?

That’s the question behind a panel I joined on moving from silo to sovereign readiness.

A “silo” just means teams that each do their own job well but never plan together. A country can have strong agencies and still be exposed, because the risk sits in the gaps between them.

Five things have to work as one chain:
🔭 Foresight: what to prepare for
🤝 Institutions: who acts, and when
📡 Communications: carrying the decision
🔐 Cyber assurance: protecting it
⚡ Power: keeping all of it running

At NIGCOMSAT, we’ve put real work into resilience at our hub, including power continuity, because customers and government can only trust a network that stays up.

My ask in the room was simple: every priority needs one named owner. Ideas without a name next to them don’t get built.

If you’re a young Nigerian studying engineering, cyber, energy, policy or data, here’s the opportunity: the people who can connect these fields will lead the next decade. Pick one field to master, and learn enough of the others to speak their language.

Which field are you in, and which of the other four do you most want to understand? Tell me below. 👇

#SovereignReadiness #Nigeria #CyberSecurity #SpaceTech